Overview

One Health incorporates expertise from diverse fields including human and veterinary medicine, environmental and biological sciences, engineering, public health, political science, urban planning, economics, sociology, epidemiology, and statistical modeling to study and solve important zoonotic and environmentally-induced diseases, diseases shared by humans and other animals, and challenges at the intersection of humans, animals, and the environment.

One Health incorporates expertise from diverse fields including human and veterinary medicine, environmental and biological sciences, engineering, public health, political science, urban planning, economics, sociology, epidemiology, and statistical modeling to study and solve important zoonotic and environmentally induced diseases, diseases shared by humans and other animals, and challenges at the intersection of humans, animals, and the environment.

Mission

The mission of Tufts CTSI’s One Health Program is to optimize the health of humans, animals, and the environment through an innovative and integrative, interdisciplinary approach to education, research, and practice

Services

  • Connection with stakeholders and potential collaborators across the One Health landscape, including those studying animal disease, human-animal interactions, global health and zoonotic disease, among others.
  • Identification of relevant spontaneous animal disease models in the veterinary population.
  • Design and implementation of comparative and translational studies in veterinary patients.
  • Training and education related to clinical research involving veterinary species and client owned animals.

Who is eligible?

The One Health Program offers consultations to help clinicians and researchers identify relevant natural/spontaneous animal disease models and matchmaking services to connect collaborators for One Health-related projects. This service is available to all investigators at all levels, at all Tufts CTSI partner and collaborator organizations, and across the CTSA Consortium.

Contact

To contact us, please submit a service request.

Cheryl London, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Director, One Health