Term
Fall 2023
Objectives
- List selected infectious diseases of local and global relevance.
- Classify the etiological agents of selected infectious diseases.
- Explain their routes of transmission, pathology, and strategies for control, prevention, and treatment.
- Associate preferred diagnostics with selected infectious diseases and describe the biological underpinnings of their technologies.
- Describe structural inequities that lead to infectious disease burdens in underserved areas, both global and regional.
- Generate an effective disease-specific strategy for education, prevention, and control using a One Health approach.
- Define One Health and illustrate how a One Health approach is important for infectious disease control.
Sample topics and diseases covered
- Germ theory and its complications
- Agents of disease (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and helminths)
- Modes of transmission and epidemiology
- One Health
- Immunology
- Diagnostics, treatment, and control
- Local infectious diseases
- Global infectious diseases
- Cholera
- HIV/AIDS
- Salmonellosis, Typhoid, Paratyphoid
- Aspergillosis
- Toxoplasmosis
- Measles
- Syphilis
- Lyme Disease
- Schistosomiasis
- Malaria
Projects & Activities
- Debate the merits of virus hunting
- Report (via a podcast) on a local, historical outbreak
- Research an emerging or re-emerging disease
Sample readings
Méthot 2014 - What is a pathogen? Toward a process view of host-parasite interactions
Dubos 1955 - Second thoughts on germ theory
Kahn 2008 - Teaching “One Medicine, One Health”
van Helden 2013 - One world, one health