Title:	One Health Approach to Emerging and Re-emerging Zoonotic diseases (online)
Keywords:	One Health Zoonotic diseases Ecosystems Disease prevention, control and elimination Communicable diseases
Country:	Vietnam
Institution:	Vietnam - Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH)
Course coordinator:	Dr. Tran Thi Tuyet Hanh
Date start:	2025-06-02
Date end:	2025-06-13
About duration and dates:	2 weeks, Monday to Friday
Classification:	advanced optional
Mode of delivery:	Distance-based
Course location: Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH) 1A Duc Thang Road, North Tu Liem district Hanoi, Vietnam
ECTS credit points:	3 ECTS credits
SIT: Student Investment Time = 90 hours consisting of: Contact time via Zoom/MS Team class: 28 hours Assisted tutorial time: 2 hours Private study time: 35 hours (during the course) Assisted field visit via a video clip: 1 hour Assessment/assignment time: 24 hours
Language:	English
Description: At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Describe emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases and their management at the global and national levels. 2. Analyze the multiple interactions at the animal-human-environment interface that lead to outbreaks of emerging or re-emerging zoonotic diseases. 3. Apply the One Health approach and its core competencies to develop a plan for prevention, detection and responding to emerging or re-emerging zoonotic diseases.
Assessment Procedures: Assessment will be based on individual field trip report and group exercise. ● Individual Virtual-field trip report (50% of total credit point; 2000 ± 200 words): Students will spend 8 hours to watch a short video clip on a zoonotic disease’s risk factors in a province of Vietnam and to read some relevant scientific articles (to be provided by the course coordinator and may also search from PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect databases). Based on that, students propose disease risk management solutions applying One Health approach. o Activities of students: ▪ Watch a Vietnamese video clip (with English subscription) to identify environmental health hazards and zoonotic disease risks in the human-animal-environment interface. ▪ Read relevant manuscripts (to be provided by the course coordinator and may also search from PubMed, Scopus, ScienceDirect databases) to identify the issues in more details. ▪ Write an individual report on the situation of animal husbandry, describe environmental pollution issues, identify risk factors of zoonotic disease outbreaks and propose appropriate risk management solutions applying One Health approach. ● Group exercise (50% of total credit points): Students will be required to work in group: prepare 15-minute PowerPoint oral presentation with appropriate visual aids to describe the application of One Health Core competencies in preventing, detecting and responding to one emerging or re-emerging zoonotic disease in Southeast Asian countries. Of which, 40% of the total credit points of each individual is the result of the PowerPoint oral presentation and 10% is individual grade based on the group assessment, which depends on the level of their contribution to the group work result. Individual video-field trip reports and group work presentations will be marked from 0 to 10. Failing students (graded < 5.5 out of 10) will be given an opportunity to resubmit their reports that have taken into account the comments given. This should be done within one week and will be reassessed by the course coordinator. Group exercise if failed (graded < 5.5 out of 10), students will have an opportunity to resubmit their PowerPoint slide presentations based on reviewers’ comments. This should be done within one week and will be reassessed by the course coordinator. Overall grades (the mean of the two grades described above) of this course will be presented using a Grade distribution table, which will show how the existing national scale is being used at HUPH and allow for comparison with the statistical distribution of grades in parallel reference groups of other institutions for a similar course.
Content: The main topics covered in this module are: 1. Introduction to One Health Approach and the core competencies of One Health Approach. 2. Emerging and remerging zoonotic diseases in high-risk regions. 3. Water, sanitation, climate change and zoonotic diseases in Southeast Asia. 4. Food safety, food security and antimicrobial resistance. 5. Collaboration and partnership in prevention and control of zoonotic diseases. 6. The role of laboratory work in surveillance for zoonotic disease outbreak detection and prediction. 7. Apply One Health System Mapping Analysis and Resources Toolkit (OH SMART) in the prevention and control of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases.
Methods: A variety of methods will be used including lectures, group discussion, tutorials/field visit, individual work and student group presentation: ● 28 hours of lectures (synchronous contact via video conference/online teaching platform, 4 hours per topic) to introduce students to different aspects of zoonotic diseases and One Health approach, (including a half an hour watching a video clip to understand laboratory activities at HUPH Laboratory Center to introduce the role of laboratory work in surveillance for zoonotic disease outbreak detection and prediction). ● An hour video clip watching for assisted field trip visit and introduction to group assignment. ● A two-hour seminar (synchronous contact via video conference/online teaching platform) for assisted tutorial. ● Thirty-five hours of self-study (reading relevant materials to support lectures, field trip report, individual assignment, and group exercise). ● Twenty hours for individual assignment accomplishment. ● Four hours for seminar on Group exercise (synchronous contact via video conference/online teaching platform)
Prerequisites: Proof of English fluency: tropEd students from an accredited tropEd home institution who have passed a core course in English language will be considered sufficiently fluent in English language. Also students who can provide proof of academic education passed entirely in English language will be considered sufficiently fluent. Applicants not being able to provide either of these criteria will be asked to proof fluency by a TOEFL (iBT score >= 79; State TOEFL 550) or IELTS (score >=6.0).
Attendance: The number of students is limited to 25, max number of tropEd students is 10.
Selection: First come, first served.
Fees: 450 Euro
Scholarships: None
Major changes since initial accreditation: Reduced the cost from 600 Euro to 450 Euro (for online course). Increase lecture hours (in total 28 hours for 7 topics). Other minor changes with some updated information.
tropEd accreditation: Accreditation in January 2019, in Lisbon.Re-accredited EC telco, April 2025 This accreditation is valid until April 2030.
Remarks: This course is a key achievement of the USAID One Health Workforce (OHW) Project, which aims to achieve such a workforce transformation. Focusing on two infectious disease hot spot regions, Central and Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia, OHW strengthens training and educational programs in universities to create a skilled workforce in using a transdisciplinary approach known as One Health. The One Health approach brings together disciplines such as medicine, preventive medicine, public health, veterinary medicine, nursing, animal husbandry, environment and ecology to work together to more effectively address emerging challenges at the interface of animals, humans and the environment. Emerging infectious diseases and zoonotic diseases are one of the most pressing of such challenges, which is a one of 11 action packages of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) to accelerate progress towards a world safe and secure from global health threats posed by infectious disease. This course will be generated a new kind of public health professional skilled to work in a trans-disciplinary environment and equipped with the technical, leadership, communication collaboration skills and tools to respond to any current or future infectious and zoonotic disease threat. This course has been taught for various programs in over 20 universities in Vietnam One Health University Network at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 2015, including master of public health program, doctor of preventive medicine in the health and health science universities, master of public health veterinary, veterinary at agricultural and veterinary universities. Assessment of the course (content, active teaching and learning method) was highly appreciated by both learners and lecturers.
Email Address:	dtht@huph.edu.vn
Date Of Record Creation:	2019-02-15 10:05:45 (W3C-DTF)
Date Of Record Release:	2019-02-15 15:11:50 (W3C-DTF)
Date Record Checked:	2019-02-15 (W3C-DTF)
Date Last Modified:	2025-05-21 11:08:57 (W3C-DTF)