One Health and Development Initiative (OHDI)

One Health and Neglected Tropical Diseases Course by the WHO

One Health and NTD
Photo credits: WHO/Ilyas Ahmed

Course overview: Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) continue to cause hardship and harm to over one billion people worldwide, burdening individuals, families and communities who are already marginalized and disadvantaged. Taking a One Health approach that recognizes the relationship between human, animal, and environmental health is key to sustainably addressing NTDs.

This course through the six learning modules provides information and practical guidance on how to apply One Health action to NTDs, by presenting some of the most common challenges, but also examples of how to successfully overcome them through a transdisciplinary, cross-cutting, and whole-of-society approach.

The target audience of this course is everybody concerned about health issues at the human-animal-environmental interface and, in particular, program managers and anybody else (such as NGOs) involved in NTDs or One Health-related activity at the international, national, and local levels.

Course duration: Approximately 3.5 hours

Certificates: A Record of Achievement will be issued to participants who score at least 80% in the final assessment.

What you’ll learn:

  • Describe what One Health is;
  • Justify the importance of a paradigmatic shift towards a One Health approach to NTDs;
  • Provide some examples of One Health actions that each of us can take;
  • Identify how to start and improve the design and implementation of One Health action;
  • Acknowledge how to drive sustainable impact, by working with local communities and by unlocking political interest.

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