About Us

The “One Health Approach to Understanding Emerging Infectious Disease” teaching resources were developed as part of an award from the US Health Resources and Services Agency (HRSA), which funded the “Establishment of a Future Pandemic Prevention & Rapid Response Institute at the University of California, Davis” (Federal Award Identification Number #: GE146251). HRSA funding enabled the establishment and launch of a new Institute, the UC Davis Institute for Pandemic Intelligence (IPI) in 2022.

Part of the core IPI mission is to support cross-disciplinary communication and translation of expert knowledge, and facilitate public-sector access, training, and research to engage and train the next generation of transdisciplinary scientists and clinicians needed to address future pandemic threats. These teaching resources were developed by the IPI team, or curated from publicly available learning materials with a target audience of undergraduate or graduate learners and are intended to be incorporated into higher educational or professional school curricula. Several lessons and activities were designed to cover critical gaps in offerings based on instructor needs and to bridge under-represented disciplines in the sciences such as humanities and the arts.

For more about these resources and their recommended use, please visit the home page.

Our Team

Dr. Cheryl Meehan is an adult education specialist working with the UC Davis Department of Population Health and Reproduction and One Health Institute in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Meehan is also the co-lead for the One Health Workforce Academies online learning platform, which is promoting the development, delivery, institutionalization, accreditation, and employer-recognition of training and educational activities that are in alignment with One Health core competencies and technical skills.

David Wolking is the Deputy Director for the UC Davis institute for Pandemic Intelligence and Senior Manager at the One Health Institute. He also serves as Technical Director for the USAID-funded One Health Workforce - Next Generation project, which is supporting training and education for university networks in 17 countries in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Contact us: grandchallenges@ucdavis.edu 

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