“One Health” is a public health approach focusing on the paradigm shift of the interrelationships between veterinary and human health, and environmental health, and brings the understanding of these three disciplines to a level where the assessment of the implications of any change in sub-system or a policy on the entire system. One Health is closely linked to the ecological health with the underlying premise that the health and well-being of humans and animals cannot be sustained if the planet is polluted.

This is a three-year program that is offered through course work for the first six months and thereafter intensive research. Students undertake a research project focusing on the increasing interactions between humans and animals within the environment and numerous factors exacerbating ecological (environmental) health and, the emergence, re-emergence and spread of infectious diseases and other growing global threats to human health and socioeconomic wellbeing which necessitate a multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration and coordination on prevention through environmental management.

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