Academic Institutions and One Health

Moving global health forward in academic institutions

1 Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, Switzerland 2 Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland 3 University of Basel, Switzerland 4 Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland 6 Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Sw...

In the name of global health: trends in academic institutions.

This paper describes accelerating development of programs in global health, particularly in North American academic institutions, and sets this phenomenon in the context of earlier programs in tropical medicine and international health that originated predominantly in Europe. Like these earlier programs, the major focus of the new global health programs is on the health needs of developing coun...

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Academic Institutions and One Health: Building Capacity for Transdisciplinary Research Approaches to Address Complex Health Issues at the Animal–Human–Ecosystem Interface

To improve health at the human, animal, and ecosystem interface, defined as One Health, training of researchers must transcend individual disciplines to develop a new process of collaboration. The transdisciplinary research approach integrates frameworks and methodologies beyond academic disciplines and includes involvement of and input from policy makers and members of the community. The autho...

Evolving network structure of academic institutions

Today’s colleges and universities consist of highly complex structures that dictate interactions between the administration, faculty, and student body. These structures can play a role in dictating the efficiency of policy enacted by the administration and determine the effect that curriculum changes in one department have on other departments. Despite the fact that the features of these comple...