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Animal Health Management: High Impact and Emerging Diseases

  • Modules

  • 4 ECTS Credits

  • English

General information

This module will introduce you to the reasons why animal health needs to be managed, the beneficiaries of animal health management, the concepts of what constitutes a high impact disease or an emerging disease with examples, and the basic principles and tools available for managing both high impact and emerging diseases, with an emphasis on the wildlife/livestock/human interface.

Learning objectives

  • Discuss the reasons for managing animal health and be able to describe the benefits of good animal health management and the beneficiaries.
  • Identify and analyse the issues that influence animal health management relating to both the animals and the diseases involved.
  • Demonstrate knowledge about the roles of the various actors in animal health management and the key tools and skills available for managing animal health.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of what constitutes a high impact disease and be able to define high impact diseases in terms of the criteria for compulsory notification to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
  • Describe and critically evaluate recommended approaches to the management of high impact diseases.
  • Propose and defend strategies for managing high impact disease under different conditions keeping in mind the One Health principles of protecting the health of humans, animals and the ecosystem.
  • Define and critically evaluate emerging diseases and to understand and describe the drivers of disease emergence.
  • Describe and analyse the tools that can be used to enable early recognition and diagnosis of emerging diseases.
  • Discuss and critically evaluate recommended approaches to the management of emerging diseases.
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