One Health is a philosophy centered on the fact that thehealth of people, animals, and the environment areinextricably connected. People working in One Healthcome from a variety of scientific and medical disciplines,and share an interest in working somewhere at theinterface of humans, animals, and the environment tosolve problems that impact health and sustainability.One Health affects us locally and extends to issues ofglobal significance, spanning the gamut fromenvironmental issues (water and air quality, contaminantsand pollutants, functioning healthy ecosystems includingagricultural systems, and climate change) to emergingand zoonotic diseases (like Ebola virus and avianinfluenza) to comparative medicine (ways to detect andcombat diseases like cancer in humans and animals)and includes many other disciplines including foodsafety, biosecurity, delivery of healthcare, and more.We will use topics in One Health (some chosen by you)as tools to meet the student learning outcomes.