Course leader: Luis Sergio Santos Nunes, Sidney Carlos de Jesus Santana

Home Institution: Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil

Course Overview

The course is based on theoretical lectures which will use different methodologies to increase learning.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course students will be able to synthesise and describe basic information about the One Health Concept concerning air, food, sediment and water quality. The students will understand how different environments can be interconnected in order to solve problems on specific areas.

Course Content

• One Health Concept and its consequences;
• Water quality and its parameters;
• Water microbiology and chemistry analysis;
• Coliform Bacteria in food;
• Ecotoxicology;
• Atmospheric characterisation: pollutants, their sources and effects on health;
• Atmospheric quality: pollution and cleaning.
• Active and passive atmospheric monitoring.
• Use of data from international atmospheric meteorological stations.

Instructional Method

• Lectures from both teachers;
• Educational apps: Kahoot, Plickers, Padlet, Mind Map, Socrative, Mentimeter, Nearpod;
• Moodle platform;
• Individual and/or group seminars according to number of students;
• Projects involving data interpretation of water, sediment and food;
• Projects involving data interpretation of air and water quality.

Required Course Materials

• Free local and remote access to local library;
• Access to computer labs.
• Software (Moodle, excel, power point and word) installed on computers;

Assessment

• Individual Knowledge Background Survey – to be applied on first day. It will help us to find out who the students are and their academic achievement and expectation about this course.
• Mind map construction – it can be used at the beginning and ending of a specific content in order to connect ideas. It will be useful to understand how the students are interacting with the proposed concepts.
• Project development – students will choose individual goals for the course. The progress will be evaluated with the lecturers.
• Reports – to present results of the projects.
• Seminars – to present projects, results and explanations.
• Continuous self- and cross-evaluation.