Course Introduction
The One Health Project Management Course provides a comprehensive framework for professionals responsible for planning, designing, financing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating integrated projects addressing the interconnected health of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems. The course explores how multidisciplinary project management can bring together public health, veterinary health, agriculture, environmental management, food systems, wildlife conservation, and other sectors to address complex health risks.
The programme covers the complete One Health project lifecycle, from situation analysis and risk assessment through project identification, design, feasibility assessment, budgeting, financing, implementation, procurement, stakeholder coordination, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and sustainability. Participants will develop practical skills for managing projects involving zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, environmental health, biodiversity, climate-related health risks, disease surveillance, and health security.
A major focus is placed on understanding the interconnected drivers of emerging health threats. Participants will examine how land-use change, biodiversity loss, climate change, intensive agriculture, livestock production, wildlife trade, urbanization, environmental degradation, antimicrobial use, food systems, and human mobility can influence disease emergence and transmission. The course provides practical approaches for converting these complex risks into coordinated and measurable project interventions.
The course incorporates modern technologies that are increasingly important to One Health project management, including integrated surveillance platforms, GIS, remote sensing, genomic and pathogen surveillance, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, environmental sensors, digital veterinary systems, and data-sharing platforms. Participants will explore how these technologies can strengthen early warning, risk mapping, outbreak detection, resource allocation, and programme monitoring while addressing data governance, interoperability, cybersecurity, privacy, and responsible technology use.
Participants will strengthen their ability to manage multidisciplinary partnerships involving government agencies, public health institutions, veterinary authorities, environmental organizations, laboratories, agricultural stakeholders, universities, communities, private-sector organizations, and international partners. Particular attention is given to governance, communication, financing, procurement, risk management, community engagement, regulatory coordination, and the practical challenges of integrating institutions and disciplines with different mandates and operating models.
By the end of the course, participants will be equipped to develop and manage collaborative, evidence-based, resilient, and sustainable One Health projects. They will be able to assess interconnected health risks, develop integrated intervention strategies, establish cross-sectoral governance, mobilize resources, manage implementation, leverage digital technologies, strengthen surveillance, measure impact, and build scalable solutions that protect human health, animal health, environmental health, food systems, and ecosystem resilience.
Duration
5 days
Who Should Attend
-
One Health project managers and programme officers responsible for multidisciplinary health and development initiatives.
-
Public health officials involved in zoonotic disease prevention, outbreak preparedness, surveillance, and health security.
-
Veterinary professionals and animal health programme managers working on livestock, wildlife, zoonoses, and veterinary public health.
-
Environmental health, environmental management, conservation, biodiversity, and ecosystem professionals involved in integrated health programmes.
-
Agriculture and food systems professionals working on livestock production, food safety, sustainable agriculture, and agricultural health risks.
-
Representatives of donor agencies, international organizations, development partners, and foundations supporting One Health initiatives.
-
NGO and civil society professionals implementing health, environmental, agricultural, wildlife, food security, and community resilience projects.
-
Epidemiologists, laboratory specialists, disease surveillance professionals, and researchers working across human and animal health systems.
-
Monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning professionals responsible for measuring One Health project performance and impact.
-
Policy advisers and government officials involved in health, agriculture, livestock, environment, wildlife, food safety, and disaster risk management.
-
Digital health, GIS, data science, laboratory information systems, and health technology professionals supporting integrated surveillance.
-
Procurement, finance, grants, contract management, and resource mobilization professionals supporting multidisciplinary health projects.
-
Community development, social and behaviour change, and stakeholder engagement professionals working with communities exposed to zoonotic and environmental risks.
-
Consultants and technical advisers supporting governments, NGOs, development partners, and private organizations with One Health project development.
-
Academic and research professionals seeking practical expertise in planning, financing, implementing, and evaluating integrated One Health programmes.
Course Objectives
-
Develop the ability to assess interconnected human, animal, environmental, agricultural, and ecosystem health risks to establish evidence-based One Health project priorities.
-
Design integrated One Health projects with clear objectives, theories of change, intervention components, governance arrangements, measurable outcomes, and sustainability mechanisms.
-
Apply structured project management methodologies to develop multidisciplinary workplans, budgets, schedules, responsibilities, procurement requirements, and implementation milestones.
-
Strengthen practical approaches for preventing, detecting, and responding to zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety threats, and emerging health risks.
-
Develop effective cross-sectoral partnerships involving public health, veterinary, environmental, agricultural, wildlife, laboratory, research, private-sector, and community stakeholders.
-
Apply financing, resource mobilization, procurement, contract management, cost-effectiveness, and financial control principles to complex One Health projects.
-
Integrate climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem health, environmental sustainability, gender equality, social inclusion, community participation, and safeguarding into project design.
-
Use GIS, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, integrated surveillance, genomic tools, and digital platforms to strengthen One Health decision-making.
-
Establish robust monitoring, evaluation, learning, surveillance, data-sharing, and impact measurement systems capable of capturing outcomes across multiple sectors.
-
Develop risk management, emergency preparedness, resilience, institutional strengthening, sustainability, and scaling strategies for complex and evolving One Health challenges.
Comprehensive Course Outline
Module 1: Foundations of One Health Project Management
-
Understanding One Health principles, project management lifecycles, systems thinking, and the relationships among human, animal, plant, and environmental health.
-
Examining major One Health challenges including zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, biodiversity loss, climate-related health risks, and ecosystem degradation.
-
Linking One Health projects with national development strategies, health security priorities, environmental policies, agricultural strategies, and Sustainable Development Goals.
-
Exploring emerging risks associated with land-use change, urbanization, wildlife interactions, intensive farming, climate change, globalization, and changing patterns of human and animal mobility.
Module 2: One Health Situation Analysis and Risk Assessment
-
Conducting integrated assessments of human health, animal health, environmental conditions, food systems, ecosystems, and socioeconomic factors influencing health risks.
-
Applying epidemiological analysis, veterinary surveillance, environmental assessment, ecological data, laboratory information, community knowledge, and spatial analysis to identify priority risks.
-
Mapping vulnerable populations, livestock systems, wildlife interfaces, high-risk environments, food chains, and geographic hotspots associated with emerging health threats.
-
Translating risk assessment findings into project concepts, intervention priorities, target areas, stakeholder roles, delivery mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
Module 3: One Health Project Design and Planning
-
Developing project objectives, theories of change, logical frameworks, results chains, intervention components, outputs, outcomes, assumptions, and performance indicators.
-
Designing integrated interventions combining disease prevention, surveillance, veterinary services, environmental management, food safety, community engagement, and ecosystem approaches.
-
Developing implementation plans covering activities, timelines, staffing, technical resources, procurement, partnerships, governance, data systems, and reporting arrangements.
-
Integrating gender responsiveness, disability inclusion, community participation, safeguarding, environmental sustainability, equity, and ethical considerations into One Health project design.
Module 4: Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Integrated Surveillance
-
Designing integrated surveillance systems for zoonotic diseases across human health, animal health, wildlife, food systems, and environmental monitoring networks.
-
Strengthening early warning, outbreak detection, case investigation, laboratory coordination, information sharing, risk assessment, and rapid response mechanisms.
-
Developing approaches for managing priority zoonoses at human-animal interfaces including livestock systems, wildlife environments, markets, farms, and communities.
-
Applying scenario planning, simulation exercises, emergency coordination, risk communication, and adaptive management to strengthen zoonotic disease preparedness.
Module 5: Antimicrobial Resistance, Food Safety and Health Security
-
Understanding the drivers and consequences of antimicrobial resistance across human health, veterinary medicine, agriculture, food production, and environmental systems.
-
Designing projects that strengthen antimicrobial stewardship, surveillance, laboratory capacity, responsible use, infection prevention, and cross-sectoral coordination.
-
Developing food safety interventions covering production, processing, transportation, markets, food handling, contamination risks, traceability, and regulatory compliance.
-
Integrating One Health principles into national and institutional health security, emergency preparedness, outbreak response, and resilience planning.
Module 6: Environmental Health, Climate and Ecosystem Resilience
-
Assessing the health impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, ecosystem degradation, water stress, extreme weather, and changing ecological conditions.
-
Designing nature-based, ecosystem-based, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable interventions that reduce health risks and strengthen community resilience.
-
Integrating environmental monitoring, ecosystem assessment, land-use analysis, climate data, remote sensing, and geospatial tools into One Health project planning.
-
Developing approaches for managing health risks associated with water quality, waste, air pollution, vector ecology, environmental contamination, and changing habitats.
Module 7: Governance, Partnerships and Multisectoral Coordination
-
Establishing One Health governance structures that clarify institutional mandates, decision rights, coordination mechanisms, reporting lines, and accountability across sectors.
-
Managing collaboration among health ministries, veterinary authorities, environmental agencies, agriculture departments, wildlife organizations, laboratories, universities, communities, and private-sector actors.
-
Developing stakeholder engagement, communication, negotiation, conflict management, partnership agreements, and joint planning mechanisms for multidisciplinary projects.
-
Applying project management tools including work breakdown structures, implementation dashboards, risk registers, stakeholder matrices, milestone tracking, and performance reviews.
Module 8: Digital One Health, Data and Emerging Technologies
-
Exploring integrated surveillance platforms, GIS, remote sensing, environmental sensors, laboratory information systems, digital veterinary tools, and interoperable health databases.
-
Applying artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, machine learning, geospatial modelling, and early-warning systems to identify and anticipate health threats.
-
Strengthening data governance, interoperability, cybersecurity, privacy, information-sharing protocols, data quality, and responsible use of integrated One Health information.
-
Examining emerging technologies including genomic surveillance, pathogen sequencing, connected sensors, drones, automated diagnostics, and digital field epidemiology.
Module 9: Financing, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
-
Developing One Health project budgets covering surveillance, laboratories, field operations, workforce, equipment, technology, community engagement, research, monitoring, and administration.
-
Exploring government financing, donor grants, development finance, research funding, public-private partnerships, philanthropic resources, and innovative financing mechanisms.
-
Establishing integrated monitoring and evaluation frameworks that capture human health, animal health, environmental, behavioural, institutional, and ecosystem outcomes.
-
Applying data analysis, implementation research, evaluations, stakeholder feedback, learning systems, and cost-effectiveness analysis to improve programme performance and resource allocation.
Module 10: Resilience, Sustainability, Scaling and Adaptive Management
-
Identifying and managing operational, epidemiological, environmental, financial, technological, political, regulatory, and stakeholder risks affecting One Health projects.
-
Developing emergency preparedness, contingency planning, rapid response, continuity mechanisms, and adaptive strategies for outbreaks, climate shocks, and environmental emergencies.
-
Strengthening institutional capacity, local ownership, financing, policy integration, workforce development, knowledge management, and long-term sustainability of One Health systems.
-
Designing scaling and replication strategies using evidence, partnerships, digital technologies, financing, policy engagement, community ownership, and cross-sectoral coordination.
Training Approach
This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.
Tailor-Made Course
This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808
Training Venue
The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group (at a discount of 10% to 50%) at requested location all over the world. The Onsite course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, buffet lunch, airport transfers, Upskill gift package, and guided tour.
Visa application, travel expenses, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant
Certification
Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.
Airport Pickup and Accommodation
Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808
Terms of Payment:
Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties’ payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.
