Applying a One Health Approach in Global Health and Medicine: Enhancing Involvement of Medical Schools and Global Health Centers

Increase access to and dissemination of existing guidance, tools, and information resources available through One Health communities of practice.

Enlist school librarians to direct faculty and students to useful One Health resources.

Post One Health content on school websites, in course syllabi, or via lectures.

Utilize platforms (e.g., MOOCs) that promote equitable access to information.

Employ innovative pedagogical models and assessment methods to support students on interdisciplinary teams.

Incorporate relevant One Health insights on ecological and epidemiological factors shaping disease risk into tools commonly used by the medical community (e.g., Medscape).

Develop communication channels for information sharing outside of ones’ immediate sphere to ensure knowledge serves its full utility for global health.

Ensure channels are in place to harness front-line observations of clinicians, veterinarians, and other health practitioners to guide appropriate reporting and response.

Ensure that information channels are designed, operationalized, and maintained with workflow needs and utility for potential users including clinicians.

Link students and faculty from different departments via mechanisms such as joint degrees, interdisciplinary events (e.g., across medical, veterinary, and public health schools), scenario-based cases, and research or practicum exchanges.

Leverage resources such as information, personnel and infrastructure from animal and environmental sectors (and vice versa) to enhance risk monitoring, implementation and surge capacity.

Mobilize multi-disciplinary training, research and practice initiatives to assess and serve needs for improved health status, including at community level.

Identify key competencies needed for health practitioners and entry points for applied training, including interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving.

Empower health professionals to identify and communicate urgent threats to public health and the importance of a One Health approach to inform solutions.

Utilize clear messaging on action and rationale to promote uptake and consistent understanding across sectors.