UNIGE - Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface 

Overview of the MOOC - Teaser

Description of the MOOC : From Content to Evaluation (Dr. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

"Global Flipped Classroom & Hackathon on One Health?, 10-14th July 2017

Discovering Global Health Together: UNIGE?s students and African refugees connected through an UNIGE?s MOOC

Syllabus & list of Experts

Learning material, activities & interactions with experts

Evaluation & Certificate

Acknowledgements

Global Flipped Classroom & Workshop in July 2017: Join us in Geneva! - Last call for SSPH+ and/or Swiss participants!

Published: First 'Global Flipped Classroom in One Health': From MOOCs to research on real world challenges

Win a Travel Grant to Attend the Geneva Health Forum in April 2018

Motivation to follow this MOOC

Introduction to Section 1 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

The importance of One Health for Global Health (Prof. A. Fontanet, Institut Pasteur)

The Tripartite Collaboration: FAO-OIE-WHO (Dr. K. Miyagishima, WHO)

Cross-Sectoral, Multidisciplinary Risk Assessment for Health Threats at the Human-Animal Interface (Dr. L. Mumford, WHO)

How to link Global Health Priorities with Biodiversity? (Dr. M. Neira, WHO)

Global Animal Trade: Health Risks and Regulations (Dr. J. Berezowski, UniBe)

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction & Health (Dr. C. Wannous, UNISDR)

Zoonotic Diseases and One Health Approach

The FAO-OIE-WHO Collaboration: A Tripartite Concept Note

WHO - Rapid risk assessment of acute public health events

Recommended Readings

'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?

WTO - Understanding the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

UNEP - The Latest Frontier - Exotic Consumerism: Illegal Trade in Live Animals

UNISDR - Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and Webinar (October 19, 2017)

Importance of One Health in Global Health

Tripartite Alliance: Priorities & Actors

Cross-sectoral heath risk assessments

Biodiversity and Planetary Health

Global Trade of Animals

Bangkok Principles and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

Graded quiz on "Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface: The Need for Intersectoral Approaches"

Introduction to Section 2 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

Challenges for the Spread of Emerging Viruses (Prof. L. Kaiser, UNIGE/HUG)

Investigating Emerging Zoonotic Outbreaks: Importance of the One Health Approach (Dr. M. van Kerkhove, Institut Pasteur)

Institute Pasteur Global Network & the Fight against Emerging Infections (Dr. M. Jouan, Institut Pasteur)

IHR 3.0 Simulator: Improving our Response to Global Health Emergencies (Prof. A. Flahault, UNIGE)

Exploring Bat Population Dynamics at the Frontline of the Emergence (Dr. J. Cappelle, Institut Pasteur)

Exploring The Human-Bat Interface (Dr. J. Cappelle, Institut Pasteur)

Fight against VBDs : Global Change & the Need for an Interdisciplinary Approach (Prof. A. Flahault, UNIGE)

The Importance of Understanding Animal Behaviour for Global Health (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

Bushmeat & Emerging Infectious Diseases: Joint Conservation & Health Strategies (Dr. G Mauvais, IUCN)

Social Anthropology of Zoonoses (Dr. T. Giles-Vernick, Institut Pasteur)

The Reversed Spill-over: From Humans and Domestic Animals to Wildlife (Dr. G. Mauvais, IUCN)

Spillover and pandemic properties of zoonotic viruses with high host plasticity

Origins of major human infectious diseases

Covid-19: Escaping pandora?s box?another novel coronavirus

Taking forward a 'One Health' approach for turning the tide against the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and other zoonotic pathogens with epidemic potential

The Institut Pasteur International Network: a century-old global public health powerhouse

The Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa: A Wake-up Call to Revitalize Implementation of the International Health Regulations

Further Recommended Readings

A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study

An interdisciplinary approach to controlling chikungunya outbreaks on French islands in the south-west Indian ocean

Further recommended readings

Global patterns of influenza A virus in wild birds

Learn more about this hot topic: A selection of articles and press releases

Further Recommended Lecture and Video

Emerging infectious diseases of wildlife-threats to biodiversity and human health

The hunt for the next potential coronavirus animal host

Spill over of emerging pathogens

Investigating zoonotic outbreaks with One Health

Institut Pasteur and its Global Network

IHR & Gamification

Research on bat Disease Ecology

Tackling VBDs with transdisciplinarity

Animal Behaviour & Global Health

Bushmeat & Emerging Diseases

Social Anthropology & Emerging Infections

The Reversed Spill-over

Graded quiz on "Emerging Infectious Diseases"

Introduction to Section 3 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

The Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance (Dr. E. Tayler, WHO)

WHO Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (Dr. E. Tayler, WHO)

Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) (Prof. A. Ravel, University of Montreal)

Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS) (Prof. A. Ravel, University of Montreal) (French Version)

Why should we care about Multi-Resistant Bacteria? Clinical Impact & Public Health Implications (Prof. S. Harbarth, UNIGE/HUG)

Antimicrobial Resistance in Foodborne Infections: Importance of the One Health approach (Dr. S. Le Hello, Institut Pasteur)

FoodNet Canada: Why is this important? (Prof. A. Ravel, University of Montreal)

FoodNet Canada: Why is this important? (Prof. A. Ravel, University of Montreal) (French Version)

Tackling drug-resistant infections globally: Final report and recommendations. The review on antimicrobial resistance chaired by Jim O?Neill

WHO - Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance

Recommended Readings

Antimicrobial resistance: one world, one fight!

Use antimicrobials wisely

Recommended Readings

Antimicrobial Resistance and its threat for Global Health

WHO Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance

CIPARS in Canada

Pan-drug resistant pathogens

Multi-drug resistant Salmonella Kentucky

FoodNet Canada

Graded quiz on "Antimicrobial Resistance & Zoonotic Foodborne Infectious Diseases"

Introduction to Section 4 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

Neglected Tropical Diseases & Zoonosis: Challenges & Solutions (Dr. B. Abela-Ridder, WHO)

Towards Rabies Elimination: The case of Kuazulu-Natal (South Africa) (K. Le Roux, Dpt. of Agriculture and Rural Development, Kwazulu-Natal)

Major Research Challenges & Opportunities in the fight against Rabies (Dr. H. Bourhy, Institut Pasteur)

Research & Innovation: Examples from Institut Pasteur?s fight against Rabies (Dr. H. Bourhy, Institut Pasteur)

Ecodog: A One health and Ecohealth approach to Rabies (Prof. A. Ravel, University of Montreal)

Ecodog: A One health and Ecohealth approach to Rabies (Prof. A. Ravel, University of Montreal) (French Version)

One Health fight against Leishmaniasis (Prof. Afif Ben Salah, Institut Pasteur)

Zoonotic Tuberculosis in the WHO End TB Strategy (Dr. M. Raviglione, Dr. A. Dean, WHO)

World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolutions on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Rescuing the bottom billion through control of neglected tropical diseases

Further interesting reading

WHO Webpages

Current and future tools for global canine rabies elimination

Laboratory diagnostics in dog-mediated rabies: an overview of performance and a proposed strategy for various settings

Recommended Readings

Leishmaniasis WHO factsheet

Reading to go Further: Leishmania major infection among Psammomys obesus and Meriones shawi: reservoirs of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sidi Bouzid (central Tunisia)

Zoonotic tuberculosis in human beings caused by Mycobacterium bovis - A call for action

The New Roadmap for Zoonotic Tuberculosis

Neglected Zoonotic Diseases

Rabies control in Kuazulu-Natal in South Africa

Leishmaniasis in Tunisia

Zoonotic TB and WHO End TB Strategy

Graded quiz on "Zoonotic Neglected Infectious Diseases"

Introduction to Section 5 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

Protected Areas: How to manage Human-Wildlife-Domestic Animals Interface? (Dr. G. Mauvais, IUCN)

Snake-bites: A Neglected Global Health Challenge (Prof. F. Chappuis, UNIGE/HUG)

Snake-bites in Sub-Saharan Africa: A priority for "Doctors Without Borders" (Dr. G. Alcoba, HUG/MSF)

On the 9th June 2017 WHO decided to add snakebite envenoming to its list of top-priority NTDs (Comments by Dr. G. Alcoba, HUG/MSF)

Impact of Snake-bites in Livestock: The Case of Costa Rica (Dr. M. Herrera, Instituto Cladomiro Picado)

The Wild Side of Disease Control at the Wildlife-Livestock-Human Interface: A Review

Vipers, mambas and taipans: the escalating health crisis over snakebites

Snake bite in South Asia: a Review

In May 2019 the WHO launched the official snakebite envenoming road map

Global Snakebite Initiative (website and video)

June 9th 2017, Snakebite Envenoming Back to the WHO NTD List

Snakebite in domestic animals: First global scoping review

IUCN, PAPACO & human-animal conflicts

Snakebite: Clinical implications

Snakebite as a medical priority

Snakebite & livestock in Costa Rica

Graded quiz on "Conflict and Injuries"

Introduction to Section 6 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

Citizen Science & Crowdsourcing: Opportunities & Challenges in Health (Prof. F. Grey, UNIGE)

Digital Epidemiology: Opportunities & Challenges in Global Health (Prof. M. Salathe, EPFL)

Citizen science could map snakebite risk

Citizen surveillance for environmental monitoring: combining the efforts of citizen science and crowdsourcing in a quantitative data framework

Digital Epidemiology

Influenza A (H7N9) and the importance of digital epidemiology

Snakebite and snake identification: empowering neglected communities and health-care providers with AI

Citizen Science & Global Health

Digital Epidemiology

Graded quiz on "Innovation and Opportunities"

Introduction to Section 7 (Dr. R. Ruiz de Castaneda, UNIGE)

What is Environmental Health? A Historical Overview (Dr. J. Simos, UNIGE)

Ecosystem Services & Health (Dr. M. Schlaepfer, UNIGE)

Growing with Nature: Implications for Child Health & Allergies (Dr. C. Roduit, UNIZH)

Biodiversity as a Source of Food for Humans and Animals: Socio-cultural Determinants of Food Habits (Dr. E. Fourat, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaures)

Companion Animal Ownership: Benefits for Human and Animal Health (Dr. D. Turner, Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology, Zurich)

Companion Animals & Economic Benefits of One Health (Dr. D. Turner, Institute for Applied Ethology and Animal Psychology, Zurich)

Rethinking Environmental Protection: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World

The environmental health practitioner: new evidence-based roles in housing, public health and well-being

Further readings

Development of atopic dermatitis according to age of onset and association with early-life exposures

The Hygiene Hypothesis

Agricultural biodiversity as a link between traditional food systems and contemporary development, social integrity and ecological health

Zooeyia: an essential component of One Health

Companion animals and human health: Benefits, challenges, and the road ahead

Environmental Health

Ecosystem Services & Health

Nature & Allergic Diseases and Asthma

Food Categories

Benefits of Companion Animal Ownership

Graded Quiz on "Health Benefits at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface"

Increasing Health Sector Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risk: the Value of Biodiversity and Ecosystems (Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General)

Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health (Cristina Romanelli, CBD)

Harnessing Biodiversity to Maximize Health Co-benefits in Agroecosystems (Dr. David Cooper, CBD)

Biodiversity and Human Health Linkages: Concepts, Determinants, Drivers of Change and Approaches to Integration (Dr. D. Campbell-Lendrum, WHO)

Global Overview of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (Dr. F. Branca, WHO)

Food Systems, Nutrition and Climate Change: The Need for a Cross-sectoral Approach (Ms. L. Mahy, WHO)

Agrobiodiversity for Healthy, Diverse Diets and Food Systems. Case Studies from Brazil, Turkey, Kenya and Sri Lanka (Dr. D. Moura, Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition)

Sustainable Oceans Management and Health (Dr. J. Rice, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada)

Sustainable Management of Agroecosystems and Health (Dr. S. Newman, FAO)

The Role of Sustainably Managed Seascapes / Landscapes in Health and Nutritional Outcomes (Dr. C. Golden, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston)

Gender and Health in the Face of Global Environmental Change (Ms. E. Villalobos Prats, WHO)

Biodiversity and health in the international agenda

Biodiversity as a part of Planetary health

Biodiversity and human health

United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition

WHO Ambition and Action in Nutrition 2016-2025

Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative Factsheet

Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape

Sustainable fisheries

Further Readings

Recommended readings

Gender, climate change and health

Biodiversity and human health linkages

International efforts on the food systems, nutrition and climate change

Agrobiodiversity for healthy, diverse diets and food systems

Sustainable oceans management and health

Agroecosystems and health

Sustainable management of ecosystems

Gender and Health in the face of Global Environmental Change

Graded Quiz on "Management of Ecosystems under Global Changes"

Final Quiz