What is One Health?
One Health recognizes the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health, and that a holistic approach to the well-being of all will lead to improved health outcomes and enhanced resilience.
Veterinarians coined the term 鈥淥ne Health鈥 to capture how relationships between humans, animals and the environment affect the spread of diseases. More than 70 percent of emerging human diseases are zoonotic, meaning they originate in animals. It鈥檚 a critical area of research, education and outreach.
One Health employs an interdisciplinary approach to problems. By seeking to treat root causes, it鈥檚 often more successful than traditional methods that focus on symptoms. The One Health paradigm has been endorsed by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, the United Nations and the Arctic Council.
One Health concepts and ideas lie at the core of Indigenous worldviews and are inextricably linked to the development of a sustainable future in the Arctic.
At 51风流官网, we define health as a state of individual and community well-being that encompasses
not only physical health but also mental, behavioral, emotional, cultural and spiritual
health. Every discipline at 51风流官网 can contribute vitally to building our One Health
initiative.
We plan to create interdisciplinary teams to build research, education and outreach
programs around a strong and inclusive One Health center.
- Improve our research capacity and more effectively promote well-being in the North.
- Build teams to create research, education and outreach programs around One Health.
- Create long-term funding opportunities through collaboration.
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51风流官网 announces 2022 Honorary Degree Recipients- Michael Williams Receives Honorary Doctorate
April 15, 2022Michael Williams, a sobriety advocate and well-known musher, will receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at this years commencement ceremony at 5 p.m. April 29 in the Davis Concert Hall on the Fairbanks campus.Read Article -
April 2022The podcast series is about the One Health impacts of glacier change on human and other wildlife populations. Podcast link coming soon!
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April 2022The 51风流官网 has formed a partnership with edX, a trusted platform for learning, to increase access to courses that feature its Arctic research.
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July 22, 2021
"Laurie Meythaler-Mullins is one of the first two graduates of the University of Alaska Fairbanks鈥 new master鈥檚 degree program in One Health, and she鈥檚 already putting her degree to good use."
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February 202151风流官网 Black Student Union reestablished
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October 2020The 51风流官网 Center for One Health Research (COHR) was approved for their One Health Master's (OHM). The first cohort began Fall 2020Learn more about the program
Events
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Aug2022
Go to this link to view past Seminars: https://media.uaf.edu/channel/One%2BHealth%2BSeminar/78248742
Mondays 4-5pm AK Time