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At the end of the module, students will have learnt about:
- The origins of contemporary One Health and Global Health in international health and tropical medicine.
- The interconnected nature of animal, human, and environmental health.
- Different biomedical and social sciences approaches to studying health risks.
- The importance of path dependencies, surveillance blind spots, and racial, economic, and gender injustice in shaping exposure and reactions to a variety of environmental and health risks.
- Ongoing (post)colonial trajectories in Global Health.
Week 1. Human and environmental health: tropical climates, frail constitutions, and the pre-history of One Health.
Week 2. The eye of the microscope: microbes, empire, and the bacteriological revolution.
Week 3. How epidemics became complex: virulence, epidemiology, and the post-war crisis of classic bacteriology.
Week 4. From colonialism to internationalism– interwar health and the roots of institutionalised links between human and animal health.
Week 5. From industrial to environmental health – toxicity, statistics, and environmentalism in the post-war period.
Week 6. Eradication and exasperation – the varying fates of smallpox, malaria, and rinderpest eradication.
Week 7. Pyrrhic Progress – antibiotics, resistance, and Cold War visions of plenty - this session includes a laboratory visit to the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine
Week 8. Reading Week
Week 9. Reading Week
Week 10. (Re-)emergence – HIV/AIDS, AMR, and the return of infectious disease concerns.
Week 11. Efficiency in a world of risk–uncertainty, neoliberalism, and resource constraints in environmental and health politics.
Week 12. Preparedness and its oversights – the origins of contemporary biosecurity, surveillance, and modelling.
Week 13. One Health, One World? The rise of One Health in an age of Global Health
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Seminar (or Webinar) | 22 |
Specified Learning Activities | 95 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 95 |
Total | 212 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: One end of term essay (5,000 words including footnotes) | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Continuous Assessment: In-class assessment of participation and preparation | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 20 |
Presentation: One mid-term poster (1,000 words including footnotes) | Unspecified | n/a | Graded | No | 40 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
Feedback on the poster presentation and in-class presentation will be given individually during office hours. Feedback on the end-of-semester Research Project / Paper Assignment will be given by appointment in one-to-one meetings. Following a poster presentation, the wider seminar group will also engage in constructive postive peer review of the presentation in light of the precirculated literature, sources, and current issues.