Instructor

Cheryl M. Stroud, PhD, DVM
Executive Director, One Health Commission

Description

This module provides an overview of the One Health framework for human health clinicians and describes how this framework can be applied in clinical practice. One Health is a “concept and an approach that recognizes that the health of people, animals, and the environment are inextricably interconnected.” This course covers the full scope of One Health arenas in need and examples of cross-professional collaborations.

Learning objective

Incorporate the One Health approach into clinical practice so clinicians are able to increase their diagnostic skills.

Accreditation Statement

This session, One Health for Human Health Clinicians, is approved for 1.0 enduring AAFP Prescribed credits.

The AAFP has reviewed VectorWise CME, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 05/15/2025 to 05/14/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.

Evidence-based bibliography for further study

• Download course slides with links. Download may take several minutes.
• Advancing a ‘One Health’ Approach to Promote Health at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface, Nov 7, 2017, APHA Policy Statement No. 201712
• Biodiversity and Human Health: Why more species mean fewer cases of Lyme disease.
• Executive Summary One Health AVMA Task Force Report. JAVMA, Vol 233, No. 2, July 15, 2008.
• Kahn LH. Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2006;12(4):556-561. doi:10.3201/eid1204.050956.
• Kahn, L. One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2016.
• Natterson-Horowitz, B Bowers K, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing, New York, Alfred A Knopf Publishing, June 12, 2012
• Lucey, D. R., Sholts, S., Donaldson, H., & White, J. (2017). One health education for future physicians in the pan-epidemic “Age of Humans”. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 64, 1-3.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2017.08.007
• ‘Open Science Can Save the Planet‘
• One Health Commission.org
• Tracey McNamara: Canaries in the Coal Mine 2018
• “Tripartite and UNEP Support OHHLEP’s Definition of ‘One Health.’” World Health Organization, 1 Dec. 2021.
• Understanding One Health and its relationship to biodiversity.
  

About the Instructor

Cheryl Stroud, PhD, DVM

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, NC State University, College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Stroud is a preeminent leader in One Health, working as the Executive Director of the One Health Commission and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine. Over the arch of her career, she has had experience in industry, academic research and teaching, private veterinary practice, and One Health. After completing her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Mississippi State University, she briefly practiced veterinary medicine, then completed a Masters and PhD in Endocrine Physiology at North Carolina State University, followed by basic research at Pennsylvania State University studying prolactin and growth hormones in sheep and cows, as well as reproductive hormones in populations of women.

Since becoming Executive Director of the One Health Commission (OHC) late in 2013, the OHC has been identifying and connecting One Health stakeholders around the world by leading International Who’s Who in One Health webinars (2014 and 2016) and creating a Who’s Who in One Health web resource and maps and by sharing a One Health Happenings newsletter to a Global One Health Community listserv of over 17,000. In 2016, the OHC spearheaded creation of an annual global One Health Day that is now officially celebrated every year on November 3. The OHC also leads a global One Health Awareness Month campaign each January, providing One Health resources for stakeholders to use when teaching about One Health. An overview of the Commission’s work can be reviewed here.