One Health at UCVM
What is One Health?
A transdisciplinary approach to address issues that emanate from the interaction of animals, humans, and their environment . The University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UCVM) believes strongly in the importance of teaching about One Health concepts in the veterinary curriculum and is also heavily involved in a variety of One Health Research topics.
One Health News
UCalgary and Providence Therapeutics kick off new partnership
New industry and university collaboration to develop mRNA vaccines for pre-clinical testing
New community care clinic to provide subsidized veterinary services for Calgarians
UCalgary vet medicine initiative to combine compassionate small-animal care with hands-on student learning
Interdisciplinary research challenges long-held belief about sperm function
UCalgary research rewrites what we know about fertility
2025 Killam Awards celebrate a tradition of scholarship
Celebrating the Killams’ vision, the awards honoured excellence across UCalgary’s disciplines
UCalgary receives more than $4.7 million in funding for innovative research
Federal government announces winners of the John R. Evans Leaders Fund
International clout grows for climate change, water management training
UCalgary summer program uses Bow River watershed as living classroom
One Health in the Veterinary Curriculum
During their four years at UCVM, veterinary students learn about many areas of animal health. They also learn about veterinary public health and infectious and non-infectious diseases that affect both animals and people. Later in the program, they have the opportunity to be involved in service-learning opportunities with local not-for-profit organizations and northern Indigenous communities. These experiences solidify a One Health mindset in our veterinary graduates, who then take this way of thinking into the workplace.
Experiences
Here is a link to an article about one of these experiences. It was written in 2017 by 4 final year veterinary students and one veterinarian about their experience providing veterinary services in remote Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
What’s the risk of COVID-19 to your pet?
UCalgary infectious disease experts offer some answers
One Health in our community
Another important part of One Health at UCVM is spreading the word far and wide. We are creating a series of One Health videos and handouts about common topics that are interesting and relevant to the broader Calgary and Canadian community. We hope that these are a way that the public can become involved in the One Health discussion. These videos are being made by faculty, staff and students at UCVM.