Interdisciplinarity & One Health

Department

Bachelor's program Social, Health & Public Management

Course unit code

NPGBA58

Number of ECTS credits allocated

Name of lecturer(s)

Recommended optional program components

none

Recommended or required reading

Affek, A. N. & Kowalska, A. (2017). Ecosystem potentials to provide services in the view of direct users. Ecosystem Services, 26, 183-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.06.017

Assmuth, T., Chen, X., Degeling, C. et al. (2019). Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology. Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 2(1), 71-90.

Barrett, M. A., & Osofsky, S. A. (2013). One Health: interdependence of people, other species, and the planet. Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health, 4th edition (Katz DL, et al., eds.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier/Saunders.

Cork, S. C., Geale, D. W., & Hall, D. C. (2015). 25 One Health in Policy Development: an Integrated Approach to Translating Science into Policy. One Health: The Theory and Practice of Integrated Health Approaches, 304

Hitziger, M., Esposito, R., Canali, M. et al. (2018). Knowledge integration in One Health policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 96(3), 211-218. https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.17.202705

Min, B., Allen-Scott, L. K., & Buntain, B. (2013). Transdisciplinary research for complex One Health issues: A scoping review of key concepts. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 112(3-4), 222-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.09.010

Rüegg, S. R., Häsler, B., & Zinsstag, J. (Hrsg.). (2018). Integrated approaches to health: A handbook for the evaluation of One Health. Wageningen Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-875-9

Sandes-Guimarães, L. V. de, Velho, R. & Plonski, G. A. (2022). Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts: Assessing the significance of knowledge coproduction. Research Evaluation, 31(3), 344-354. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac008

Schröter, M., Stumpf, K. H., Loos, J., van Oudenhoven, A. P., Böhnke-Henrichs, A. & Abson, D. J. (2017). Refocusing ecosystem services towards sustainability. Ecosystem Services, 25, 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.03.019

Level of course unit

Bachelor

Year of study

Fall 2025

Semester when the course unit is delivered

Language of instruction

English

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will gain basic technical knowledge about climate science of where are we now, where are we heading to. They will be able to use the SDGs for academic writing. Students should be able to discuss the connection between political decisions, climate change and societal consequences. The One Health approach will be explained and the opportunities and challenges to implement it at different levels of policy-making will be explored. Furthermore, the course will offer students the opportunity to identify practical elements of professional and personal development useful to students in their future work career.

Course contents

• Ecosystem and sustainability; resources, earth system and climate change
• Multidisciplinary (social, health) consequences of climate change and their inequalities/inequeties
• Sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective
• Interdisciplinary research and policy impacts
• Interdisciplinary and Public Health
• The concept of One Health
• Interdependence of people, other species, and the planet
• Knowledge integration in policy formulation

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

In the course, various teaching and learning methods (such as keynote lectures, individual and group work, exercises, presentations, discussions, etc.) are interconnected in an interactive manner.

Work placement(s)

none

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