The Center for One Health Research offers training for University of Washington undergraduates, grad students and medical students. We also educate practicing physicians and other health care providers.
Academic training
- Students can complete a graduate degree (MS, MS Applied or PhD) with an area of emphasis in One Health through the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS).
- COHR faculty teach undergraduate and graduate-level courses (ENV H 439/538 and ENV H 586).
- Any matriculating graduate or professional student at the University of Washington can apply to enter the Graduate Certificate in One Health program, a 15-credit program that is intended to enhance their education beyond their regular course of study.
Medical training
COHR is the coordinating center for the medical student clinical elective in One Health (FAMED 690) offered through the UW Medicine Department of Family Medicine. This elective is by permission of the instructor and is open to visiting students as well.
This clinical elective provides medical students with a conceptual framework and clinical exposure through which to explore the multitude of clinical applications of the One Health paradigm in a multidisciplinary context. These clinical applications include diagnosis and management of zoonotic infectious diseases, managing animal allergy, bites, and other animal related hazards, and leveraging the power of the human animal bond in the medical context.
Through hands-on clinical experience at the Woodland Park Zoo, wildlife rehabilitation centers, the Seattle Aquarium, Harborview Medical Center Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, the UW Zoonotic Disease clinic, the One Health homeless health care clinics and other sites, students will gain experience working with interdisciplinary teams on species spanning approaches to health.
Continuing education
What health professionals are seeing in hospitals and clinics is shifting, requiring new approaches to diagnosis, treatment and advocacy. Health professionals must understand how their patients are affected by challenges like wildfires, extreme weather, nutritional deficiencies, disaster-related trauma, eco-anxiety, air pollution, emerging zoonotic infections and other ecological changes.
COHR collaborates with the Stanford School of Medicine’s Center for Innovation in Global Health in offering Medicine for a Changing Planet: Case Studies in Planetary Health and One Health, an online, interactive set of case studies that are eligible for free CME credit through Stanford School of Medicine.