Activities

Learn about the benefits and challenges of the One Health approach to combat emerging infectious diseases and how to engage relevant experts in global health research.

Explore zoonotic disease risks, stakeholder interests, and strategies for comprehensive risk assessment in a group discussion following a news article on rodents and disease.

Analyze the Healthy Davis Together COVID-19 response, its scalability, and how lessons can be applied to future pandemic preparedness in line with the idea of collective human responsibility from Frank M. Snowden's interview.

Learners craft One Health-informed communication tools for Valley fever in Yolo County, inspired by discussions on public health, COVID-19 communication, and climate-related disease risks.

Learners assess the credibility of a science news article on the fungal pathogen C. auris using evaluation tools provided in this activity from Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive.

Learners act as epidemiologists analyzing real Nipah virus outbreak data in Malaysia to make predictions, calculations, and recommendations for the CDC and WHO in this Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive activity.

Learners explore the use of art to express emotions during disease outbreaks, analyzing historical artwork from the Plague era and connecting it to modern art created during the COVID-19 pandemic.