BIOL 1940Z - Conservation Medicine: Focus on Emerging Disease and Environmental Change

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Brown University

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Conservation Medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human health, animal health, and environmental change. We will explore the links between changes to the environment, such as climate change and species invasions, and the emergence of infectious diseases in humans and wildlife. We will come to understand Conservation Medicine through the foundations of the primary disciplines relevant to the field including Global Change Biology and Disease Ecology. We will study the causes and consequences of disease emergence, dissect case studies of contemporary wildlife and human diseases linked to environmental change, and have a series of guest lectures from experts in the field. Concepts will be taught and tested on, through lectures, discussion, in class activities, group assignments, nontraditional exams and a creative final project.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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