Zoonoses and One Health Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Overview

On the Zoonoses and One Health programme at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, you will learn to work effectively and collaboratively on preventing, monitoring, managing and informing on biological hazards and infectious diseases in the new scenarios brought about worldwide by globalisation and climate change.

This is what One Health is all about: defending and improving the health of all species (humans, animals and plants) through greater cooperation between professionals who work in public health, animal health and environmental health.

Career options

The Master's degree aims to train up highly qualified professionals to work in both the public and the private sector, with a multidisciplinary vision, in line with the requirements of the major international health bodies, like the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The Master also offers the access to national and international PhD studies.

Students of this master's degree can go on to pursue careers in any of the following areas:

• Risk assessment in general for any sector included in the programme (public, human, animal, plant and environmental health), including monitoring of critical flowchart points for illnesses, in: private companies (food, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, veterinary medicine, phytosanitary products); centres conducting research into public health, animal health or environmental health.
• Risk management in advisory and consultancy services for policies on detection, surveillance and control of diseases in: government bodies at regional, national or international level; non-government, non-profit organisations (NGOs) and private healthcare organisations.
• Research in the field of health and access to PhD studies.