GOHA Course Offerings
The Global One Health Academy is proud to offer multiple interdisciplinary courses in one health for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Undergraduate Courses
GOH 201: Foundations of Global One Health (3 credits)
Offered in Fall & Spring
Instructor: Kristen Sullivan
Schedule: Monday/Wednesday, 1:30-2:15 p.m. | Kilgore Hall, Rm 125
Description: This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of Global One Health, emphasizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Students will engage with critical topics like emerging infectious diseases, sustainable food and water sources, and the intertwined issues of climate change and health disparities, using interdisciplinary approaches to tackle real-world challenges. The course will equip students with the foundational knowledge and skills to apply a One Health approach, utilizing systems thinking and interdisciplinary perspectives to address and manage health challenges at the global level.
Graduate Courses
CBS 586/GOH 586/VMP 986: One Health: From Philosophy to Practice (2 credits)
Offered in Fall
Instructors: Michael Reiskind and Kristen Sullivan
Schedule: Monday, 5-7 p.m. | NC Biotechnology Center, RTP
Description: This course explores the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health and facilitates the understanding of health as an inexorably linked system requiring multidisciplinary collaborative efforts. The One Health concept demonstrates the importance of a holistic approach to disease prevention and the maintenance of human, animal, and environmental health. Co-listed at Duke and UNC to promote cross-campus and cross-discipline interactions, this discussion-based seminar course is taught through a mix of guest lectures by experts in One Health and global health, panel discussions, and collaborative case studies. Graduate and professional students from any discipline interested in interconnected health challenges are encouraged to enroll.
GOH 811: Seminar in One Health Problem Solving (1 credit)
Offered in Fall
Instructor: Michael Reiskind
Schedule: TBD based on student availability
Description: This is a special topic, 1 credit discussion course that will explore the interdisciplinary origins and interdisciplinary foundations of Global One Health, as well as delve into its utility as a framework for analyzing emergent issues in our modern world. The format of the course is faculty and student led discussions with the goal of reviewing a topic in One Health with a written product at the end of the course.
PSC/GOH 550: Fundamentals of Citizen Science and Other Participatory Research Methods (3 credits)
Instructor: Caren Cooper
Schedule: Wednesday, 3-5:45 p.m.
Description: Citizen science involves collective efforts that produce discoveries that scientists cannot achieve alone. Through project-based learning, students will become familiar with academic and gray literature across disciplines about citizen science and other forms of participatory research such as community mapping, volunteer monitoring, crowdsourcing, participatory sensing, and community-driven science. Students will critically examine ethical, legal, and emergent issues, and analyze theory and practice with particular attention to data quality, informal science learning, and democratization of science in society.