UC Davis Global Health

One Health in Action: An Intensive Field Course in Sri Lanka



02 – 22 July 2017  With global populations increasing rapidly, one of the most important concerns facing human-kind is ensuring health – including access to adequate, sustainable and safe food resources and water, human and animal disease prevention, resilient ecosystems and culturally appropriate health care. This three-week action-oriented field course is designed for a collegial, inquisitive, multi-disciplinarygroup of students in human health sciences, veterinary medicine, agriculture, nutrition and environmental science.* Applicants must be currently enrolled at one of the University of California (UC) campuses. Students must be committed to learning and working together to apply the One Health approach to important human, animal and environmental health problems. Eligible UC students will include professional degree students in medicine and veterinary medicine and graduate students in nursing, agriculture, nutrition, public health, social and environmental sciences.

*Academic credit possible F.A.Q.s/Questions about the Course (pdf) 2017 Sri Lanka Course Application (pdf) Flyer (pdf) For more information, please contact: Katie Leasure at kaleasure@ucdavis.edu

Himalayan Health Exchange

2016 International Health Expeditions Schedule:

Himalayan Health Exchange will organize its 21st annual medical/dental and public health camps in the remote Inner, Greater and Trans- Himalayan regions of north India and Indo-Tibetan Borderlands in 2016. Participation is open to medical students of all levels. Supervision is provided by US based board certified physicians. Each camp is designed to provide care to approximately 1,500 underserved patients and a hands-on clinical experience to participants. Medical students and residents participation is limited to 30 on each trip.

Note: Participants are responsible for arranging their own funding to meet expedition costs and must be willing to put in a minimum of 6-8 hours of clinical work, each day, for the duration of each clinical period.

Outer Himalayas (Winter Camp): Medical/Dental camp in the north Indian State of Himachal Pradesh
February 1-February 25, 2016.

Dharamsala: Public Health and Medical/Dental camp in villages and settlements around Dharamsala (north India), home to The 14th Dalai Lama and Tibetans in Exile.
April 1-April 28, 2016

Pangi Valley: Public Health and Medical/Dental trek through the remote Pangi Valley.
June 5 – June 24, 2016.

Spiti, Indo -Tibetan Borderland: Ancient Tibetan kingdom of ‘Guge’ along Indo-Tibetan Borderlands.
June 22 – July 12, 2016

Kargiakh: High-altitude medical/dental trek to a remote Trans-Himalayan tribal villages located in southern Zanskar.
August 1 - August 28, 2016.

Tibetan Settlements and TCVs : Public Health and Medical/dental covers 3 Tibetan Refugee settlements and a Tibetan Children’s Village in the Indian Himalayas
October 1 – October 26, 2016.

2017 International Health Expeditions Schedule:

Outer Himalayas (Winter Camp): Medical/Dental camp in the north Indian State of Himachal Pradesh
February 1-February 25, 2017.

Dharamsala: Public Health and Medical/Dental camp in villages and settlements around Dharamsala (north India), home to The 14th Dalai Lama and Tibetans in Exile.
April 1-April 28, 2017

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