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Kansas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Expansion
University of Kansas Master of
Public Health Degree Expansion
Kansas Action for Children (KAC) Support
Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition (TFKC) Capacity Building
Faith and Leadership Initiative
Dental Hubs and Spokes: Expanding Access to Oral Health Care in Kansas
Kansas Health Care Collaborative
The concept of One Health revolves around the importance of the complex inter-relationships — and their impact on public health — that exist among humans, companion animals, food animals, wildlife and the environment. Funding from this grant will be used to create One Health Kansas, a new focus for the Master of Public Health (MPH) program at Kansas State University. Through the addition of One Health Kansas, KSU’s MPH program will have two major goals: 1) build a pipeline of public health professionals through school outreach programs, and 2) provide a broader, more in-depth education for current and future health professionals. Both of these goals will be geared toward allowing the KSU program to develop a public health work force capable of addressing emerging and re-emerging zoonotic (transmitted from animals to humans) diseases.
The development of the One Health Kansas program at KSU carries the possibility of a number of substantial, long-term and sustainable benefits for both the university and the state of Kansas. These could include addressing the state’s future shortage of trained public health professionals and strengthening the MPH program at KSU to better position the university for new facilities, programs and funding. The new program will also increase the opportunities for collaboration with other Regents institutions, most notably the MPH program at the University of Kansas.