Table 1 Proposed One Health Competencies for Human Health Professionals

Skill sets:

• Ability to elicit a history of human-animal-environment interactions.

• Inter-professional communication and teamwork skills.

• Ability to recognize and treat zoonotic and vector borne disease

• Ability to assess and improve patient environments

Knowledge competencies:

• Zoonotic and vector borne diseases

• Animals as sentinels

• Human-animal bond and role of service animals, therapy animals, etc.

• Prevention of animal-related injuries

• Ecosystem function and health

• Food systems, in particular animal source foods, in human health and disease

• Role of environment on human health

• Ethics and values including balance of health and environmental values and legal/ethical limits on physicians dealing with veterinary issues and veterinarians dealing with human health issues

• Comparative clinical and evolutionary medicine