Lisa Crump

Lisa Crump

I'm a veterinary epidemiologist who likes traveling to new places.

Location Switzerland

Activity

  • Don't be afraid to try the calculations! But if math is not your interest, you can skip ahead to the answers or bypass these technical steps altogether! We recognize that One Health is a topic that spans a wide breadth of interests.

  • Charlotte, you raise a very good point that there can be a big gap between decision makers and communities. One Health attempts to bridge this gap through transdisciplinary approaches that bring non-academic stakeholders into the discussions. More about that later!

  • We have many different attitudes towards animals--I love seeing your additions to the Padlet! Thanks to all who contributed.

  • A warm welcome to all of you! We are delighted that you are joining the course. We really look forward to learning from each other along the way.

  • Very glad you have enjoyed the content, Robine. One Health is a very large and diverse umbrella, when we consider all the sectors and topics that link in!

  • Thanks for adding your ideas to the Padlet-there are so many interfaces that connect people and animals, whether we live in urban areas or rural, animals are all around us. I live on the margin of a not very big city, and when we sit out on a pleasant evening we see and hear many bats flying above us. I didn't notice this when we first moved to the area!

  • very true, Wanda! It's interesting to read the different scenarios

  • Welcome to all of you. This course is multi-disciplinary, so it is terrific to see that you come from diverse places, sectors and areas of interest. If we dig too deeply into an area that seems overwhelming for you, please just pass on by. We have added additional reading and links to some content, for those who are interested in a little more! But we are glad...

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    Already from your posts, you show us that animals evoke diverse emotions as we connect with them

  • Welcome learners, we are glad to join you as you progress through the Steps and learn about One Health. We look forward to read your thoughts and questions. We encourage everyone to share their 'answers'--we truly are learning together!

  • Dear all, apologies that, as you noted, the policy brief was not accessible for everyone. It was behind a university firewall, so mentors could reach it, but learners could not. So sorry, but this is corrected and you should find it now.

  • Dear all, sorry to hear that you had trouble with the policy brief. It works for me on both computer and mobile device. But we will definitely check it from the back end. Thanks for letting us know

  • Dear Sera, dear all, Apologies for the broken link. Thanks for letting us know. We will update it. In the meantime, you may download the entire book as a pdf here https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-6699-3.pdf
    The core terms are discussed in Chapter 28 which starts on page 427.

  • Thanks for your comments! We completely understand that many do not have experience with the mathematical concepts. You'll see that the solutions are also provided along the way. Take your time, and ask questions if you don't understand. We are all learning!

  • @catrionamanby @BarbaraLister Sorry you are having a problem with Padlet! With what kind of device are you having the issues? If you don't mind sharing more details, we can try to find a solution.

  • Hi Sam, Thanks for your question. The point we make is that even a strong statistical relationship does not necessarily mean there is a causal link. Establishing causality is a step further. As you correctly point out, this takes more research and more time. We often need to find a balance and move forward with incomplete information!

  • Welcome to week 2! We're really glad to see all the comments sharing your experiences and examples from your own countries. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and even links to other relevant information. We encourage you to continue posting and replying to the comments of other learners!

  • Hi San Wai, which is your country?

  • Thanks for your insightful comments, which I really enjoy reading. As you remind us, when we consider 'health' of humans, animals and the environment, there are complex inter-relationships influenced by human behaviours and our implicit biases--which are embedded in our cultures and contexts.

  • Thanks for all your interesting comments and for the Padlet entries--really love reading about your experiences!

  • Welcome learners! We're really excited to share these next few weeks discussing the topic of One Health with you. We hope you will also write comments, so we can learn from each other. We look forward to hearing about your experiences.

  • The students in phase one of this project were all Ethiopian students who enrolled in PhD or MSc studies at the University of Basel. They came to Switzerland during the semester to participate in course work for their studies and returned to Ethiopia to undertake their fieldwork. In phase two of the project, a Swiss PhD student did her field work in...

  • @ClaireBeverley sorry to hear that you had trouble accessing the pdf. Please check your personal firewall and settings. We confirm that this is not an issue originating from the learning platform.

  • Hi Linda, you rightly point out that there are large gaps in the health system in Chad, and many other countries. Sick people who do not live in urban areas or larger villages often need to travel many kms to reach a health center. During the rainy season this can even be impossible. Even if a patient can access a health care facility, prophylactic vaccine may...

  • Hi Leny, thank you for your encouraging feedback! We also appreciate the opportunity to engage together and learn from each other. The online format opens vast new and global possibilities. One source to learn about current events in One Health is the One Health Platform https://onehealthplatform.com/home. For more on theoretical knowledge, have a look at our...

  • Thank you all for your positive comments throughout the course. We are very glad to hear how the course material is valuable to you! A main goal in developing this course is that learners worldwide have completely free access to a curated course. This does mean that certificates are only available directly from FutureLearn...

  • Yes, in fact, it starts today: #WOHC2020 As with most conferences in the last months, this one is fully virtual, which will provide distinct advantages and a few disadvantages!

  • Any ideas on how you might investigate the idea of cross-immunity?

  • You are right, Leny. We developed this course long before Covid-19 was known. We were fortunate to have opportunity to quickly update in recent months. There are SO many aspects of this pandemic and the responses, local and global, that merit further study and discussion for mutual learning!

  • Thank you for sharing these interesting ideas. Of course, there are pros and cons for each strategy, but some can be validated through testing the approaches in different contexts.

  • Dear Leny, human to human transmission of brucellosis has been reported but this is very unusual. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28196298/

  • Dear Firmin, Thank you very much that you are well engaged in the course. We really appreciate hearing your perspectives. Unfortunately, not everyone reads French! Could you please write all your posts in English, so that we keep the discussions going? If you want to use a translating app, that is also fine. We only ask that everyone posts comments in English,...

  • Thanks, Peter, for this information and for including the reference link! I know this is also the case in many other countries. There is a lot of work to be done within and across many different sectors.

  • Hi Luisa, thanks for your post and for joining the discussion. FutureLearn policy is that we only use English, so that everyone can take part. You can also use a translating app if you don't find all the words!

  • Hi Peter, good catch--you are correct! It's a sheep!

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    Thanks for all your posts. It is interesting to see your diverse perspectives and answers. You raise relevant questions!

  • Dear Peter, We recently updated the book, and a second edition will be published this month! More information is here https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781789242577/

  • Hi Damipie, We are glad you joined the course. Please use English to post your comments, so that all learners can participate in your discussions. A warm welcome to you!

  • Thanks all for your informative posts. Did anyone try to draw a graphical representation of their country's system? If so, please post it on the Padlet so all can see your handiwork!

  • Thank you, Linda, for highlighting One Health in the linked Science blog. I see it was posted on International One Health Day, which recurs annually on Nov 3rd.

  • Thank you all for sharing--it is fascinating to read of your diverse experiences.

  • Be sure to click over to the Padlet--it is super to see your photos and read your comments!

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    Thanks for all your posts--many of you point out that you would like to know more about the island ecology to make more informed choices! This is a common scientific dilemma, isn't it?

  • @GianpaoloPontiggia Thanks for your suggestions--would you like to also propose your definitions? Then others can comment, too!

  • Dear Eric, thanks for this suggestion.You are right that there are many disease which could be included! To keep this glossary manageable, we limited to the diseases that are highlighted in this course.

  • Thanks to you all for sharing about your backgrounds and thoughts on the course. We are happy to continue in these virtual 'discussions'.

  • Please add your own photo and comments directly to the Padlet board by clicking on the pink text. We look forward to learning about your attitudes towards animals!

  • Dear Linda, thanks for your question. We do not include a pdf as this is a dynamic step-we anticipate that learners may suggest additional terms. It is not possible to update pdfs during a course run. However, you can easily create your own copy using the copy/paste function!

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    Feel free to post if you have other terms that you think should be included in the glossary. We are interested to hear your ideas, too.

  • A warm welcome to all! We are glad to open up this course and excited to hear from all of you throughout the run. Please feel free to add your posts. We ask you to follow the FutureLearn policies throughout the course. For example, be sure to note that the course language is English--all posts must be written in English (but you may use a translating app where...

  • @AnabadediADJODI Welcome to the course. We're glad to have you join the conversations. However, according to FutureLearn's policies, we must only use English. Please translate your posts!
    Your comments would read like this:
    'Hello everyone, my relationships with animals are many and have varied over time for some of them. when I was young, I loved the...

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    Thanks to all who have posted your own thoughts--the discussion gives a lot of "food" for thought! And we very much agree that the communities have crucial knowledge to contribute for problem-solving. We'll investigate more on how to tap into that in the Steps of Week 4.

  • Thanks to you all for the different perspectives on these complex issues that involve health, production and cultural contexts! We thus understand why it is so important to include all stakeholders in the process in order to arrive at sustainable equitable acceptable solutions.

  • Dear Ajay, thank you. As you point out, children are an important sub-group. And cultural norms are relevant! Ethical considerations require that researchers must document why vulnerable groups (like children) are included. Previous work we did in this study area documented deficiency in women and children...

  • Dear all, The download sheet is now corrected! A big thanks to our technical staff for such speedy help.

  • Yes! We use the term "herd immunity", but you are both saying the same thing. Thanks for your contributions.

  • Dear Amy, thanks for pointing out this formula error! And thank you for sharing your work-around. Our sincere apologies. We'll try to upload a corrected pdf as soon as possible--but it may be next week, since it is now "weekend" time for our technical staff!

  • Don't be discouraged, Nicki. We explain more in next Steps and give solutions. If you still don't grasp some calculations, there are many other aspects to integrated approaches.

  • Dear learners, the maths can seem complicated, but we hope you persevere to the next Steps. There we develop the thinking and the solutions are even presented. If this still is not the most interesting part for you, you can jump forward. There is much more to One Health approaches.

  • Dear Francesco, thanks for this article link. I like the drawing illustrating the connections!

  • Thanks, all, for your posts describing the variety of systems. Thanks also to those who posted diagrams on the padlet--I find those schematics quite useful!

  • Dear Jubayer Hasan, I haven't heard those two terms used together. An accidental host is one which harbours an organism that does not usually infect it. An intermediate host is one in which a parasite passes one or more of its asexual stages.

  • Dear all, we want this course to be a place for thought-provoking discussions and dialogue. To keep it constructive, we ask you to freely to post about YOUR perspectives and feelings. But please refrain from commenting on how you perceive another learner's viewpoints. We come from all different backgrounds which gives us all different viewpoints. That is the...

  • Dear Fasih, I hope you will keep on going through the Steps! It hopefully becomes clearer as you continue, and we provide some solutions later. You can also pass over math steps--there is much more to this course than only calculations.

  • Thanks to you all for posting these diverse interfaces and for your comments and photos on Padlet.

  • It's fascinating to see how the ministries are structured in so many countries. We apologize for the earlier technical issue with posting to the padlet. We'd love to see your illustrations there now!

  • Thanks to you all for your interesting ideas. We apologize there was technical issue which is now corrected. Just click the big plus on the lower right corner and you can add text or photos.

  • Wow Taylor, that is beautiful! Thank you. You can add to the Padlet for this step by clicking on the active Padlet text (highlighted in pink) above. You should be able to link your page that way, if you like.

  • Dear Stef, Thank you for sharing this useful glossary!

  • Dear Christian, Thank you for sharing about your context in Guatemala. Later this year a second edition of our One Health textbook will be published (digital and print versions), and the project in Guatemala is newly described in several chapters (here is information on the first edition https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781780643410/). You might also find...

  • A very warm welcome to everyone from different backgrounds and places! We are glad to share this course, and we look forward to discuss topics and ideas with you in the next weeks.

  • Hi Anou, Thanks for posting! A tip: if you right click on the time stamp (upper far right) of a post, you can copy its unique link so others easily follow your thought.

  • Hi Thea, Thanks for posting in the course! One practical tip: if you right click on the time stamp (upper far right) of a (previous) post, you can copy its unique link so others can easily follow your line of thought.

  • @CarolineKemball Sorry for that! More information about accessing Padlet is here https://padlet.com/support/gettingstarted_browsers

  • Dear John, As you point out, using One Health and transdisciplinary approaches can be complicated. And it often takes longer! The advantages come when there is an added value which could not be achieved using other methods in isolation. In this course, we present a number of case studies illustrating gained knowledge that could not have been understood without...

  • We consider a method to be One Health when human health and veterinary health working together achieves an added value. The added value can be a cost savings or improved health in humans OR animals or even an increased environmental service.

  • Rolf, you can also copy/paste from the Steps to facilitate making your own document

  • Hi Kasali, we cannot add a pdf during the course run due to technical logistics. But you could copy/paste and make your own document!

  • Thanks, Rolf! I posted a picture on Padlet of a potential transmission interface to illustrate your scenario.

  • Caroline, thanks for this example. Can you post a photo of this scene in the garden on the Padlet, so we can visualize the interface?

  • Dear Hilary, we hope so too! For those who don't love maths, you can skip over the difficult parts--there is much more to One Health that we will highlight in some other Steps.

  • Dear Linda, super that you persevere. Although there's a lot of math, you don't need to understand it all to gain useful insights.

  • Dear Ndongmo Njukeng, it's a very good observation to connect neglect of disease with lack of reported rather than actual number of cases. We see this with numerous diseases--you will read more about some, like rabies, later in the course.

  • Thanks for your thought provoking comments. Along with increasing awareness and understanding of One Health, we make inroads by employing transdisciplinary methods. You'll hear more about that later in the course, but a main point is that such approaches involve communities. Knowing what the priorities of the community are and incorporating their valuable...

  • A warm welcome to those just joining the course. We encourage you to scroll through the previous comments. We'll try to keep up with any new questions on previous weeks as much as possible. We're very pleased to learn along with you all!

  • Hi Andwele, Thanks for your suggestion. We hope to continue adding glossary terms if requested by learners during the course run. It would be difficult for us to update a pdf due to course revision logistics. But we will certainly consider your suggestion for our next course run. Meantime, I suggest you could copy/paste into your own document.

  • Hi everyone,
    We had to reset the Padlet link in this step today. If you posted on this discussion earlier, could you kindly re-post on the updated link https://padlet.com/University_of_Basel/lhtzs7c1hb4l
    We're very interested to see your photos AND hear your ideas on context, biomedicine and points of action.

  • Hi John, I can understand that you might find the topic challenging when there is a lot of new information! It's true that there are many specific terms. Generally, abbreviations are indicated in the manuscript text where they are first introduced--but occasionally one can be overlooked. In this case, SP meant seropositivity. We hope the glossary in Step 1.3...

  • Thanks to all for your comments and for the awesome Padlet posts https://padlet.com/University_of_Basel/rgsw9np34g62. Your photos are fantastic and inspiring! I hope everyone has time to take a look.

  • Hi Jade, thanks for your contributions. Is https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/one-health/3/comments/29537679 the previous comment you mean? You can link us to it: by right-clicking on the time stamp at the upper right corner of the post you can “copy link location” which takes us to the unique link of your post after you also paste it here in this thread....

  • Hi John, you raise a good point. Yes, religious scholars also support your idea that restrictions were put in place as a protection for people.

  • Hi Epke, that is an important definition for this course! You'll find our definition in Step 1.13. Thanks for suggesting it here, too.

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    Thank you for your suggestions. The additional terms will be added as soon as possible. Please come back to this step throughout the course, to assist your learning!

  • Warm welcome to all of you! Thanks for adding your ideas and telling us about your backgrounds. As some of you have illustrated, our relationships and interactions with animals are indeed complex, evolving over time as our thinking and experiences expand. We hope the course topics and social conversations will further contribute to your knowledge!

  • Thank you for informing us on systems in your home countries. Even in different systems, there seem to be some common "gaps". We'll look at some potential approaches and solutions in the weeks ahead!

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    The WHO defines epidemiology as the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems.
    Any one have another suggestion?