Fusing Information Literacy to Multidisciplinary Global Health Education

1. Fusing Information Literacy to Multidisciplinary Global Health Education Erika L. Sevetson, MS Sarah McDaniel, MA University of Wisconsin – Madison

2. About One Health • In July 2007, the AVMA launches a One Health Initiative and Task Force “to study the feasibility of a campaign to facilitate collaboration and cooperation among health science professions, academic institutions, governmental agencies, and industries to help with the assessment, treatment, and prevention of cross-species disease transmission and mutually prevalent, but non-transmitted, human and animal diseases, and medical conditions.” • The term One Health is defined as “the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals, and our environment. Achieving the end point of One Health is truly one of the critical challenges facing humankind today.” One Health—A New Professional Imperative. Retrieved May 10, 2009, from http://www.avma.org/onehealth/preface.asp

3. The grant opportunity... • 2007 – 08: UW Provost office launches the Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Project. • The TEL (Technology-Enhanced Learning) Project will develop classroom learning modules, "hybrid" and technology-heavy courses, searchable databases, and build capacity among UW–Madison faculty, instructors, and future faculty. Key to the TEL project will be developing teaching & learning collaborations across our schools and colleges, and creating ways to seamlessly integrate technology into our students' educational experience. • Three funding cycles, awarding $500,000 each cycle.

4. The proposal • Spring 2008: Technology for Learning Center at School of Veterinary Medicine applies for TEL grant, focusing on One Health/One Medicine “On the UW-Madison campus we have a number of programs and departments concerned with the study of issues at the human/animal/ecosystem heath interface... These programs often share faculty for individual lectures and topics...a challenge is to not overburden the faculty by asking them to repeatedly present the same content to different classes and yet still provide an interdisciplinary approach. “We propose to capitalize on an electronic learning model based on a learning object architecture paradigm...The main idea is to break educational content down into small chunks that can be mixed, matched, or glued together to form a variety of instructional lessons or courses. “

5. The proposal (Pt. 2) • Target student base includes primarily graduate and professional degree students in the various collaborating programs: Veterinary Medicine, Public Health, Global Health, Environmental Studies. • Core topics proposed include research ethics, community-based research, and information literacy. General health related topics cover epidemiology, disease surveillance, and access to health and global information. Topics such as impacts on health due to climate changes, land use changes, biodiversity and health, industrial agricultural impacts on health, and food security cut across the One Health/One Medicine programs.

6. Planning group P.I. Director, Technology for Learning Center, SVM Collaborating Units School of Veterinary Medicine Assoc. Dean(Curriculum) 2 faculty members School of Medicine and Public Health Master of Public Health, Associate Director Center for Global Health, Assistant Director Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (Environmental Studies) 1 faculty member (dual appt in SMPH) UW Library’s Digital Collections Center Digital Repository Librarian

7. Timeline (2008-09) • April SVM writes/applies for TEL grant • Campus Info Lit coordinator works w/ Steenbock (Life Sciences library) Ed. Coord. (since retired) to propose Info Lit component. • Sept. Grant is funded. Planning group meets, GH faculty suggests Ebling be involved in Info Lit. portion. • Other LOs: • Why Ecohealth • The zoonosis story • Impact of anthropogenic global environmental changes on animal and human health • Cross cultural approach to health and disease • Sept. Meetings with faculty • Oct. Our first meeting w/ planning grp. Outlines of learning objects due. • Dec. Draft LOs due.

8. Proposed timeline

9. Catching up • Faculty mtgs • How would you use info lit. learning modules? (Pre-class, in-class) • What kind of information literacy instruction do your students already get? What else do they need? • What teaching points are needed by your students? • If we used avian flu as a framework, what would be a scenario that would speak to your students? • How do you see these LOs fitting into the whole curriculum (MPH, DVM, etc.)

10. Meeting outcomes • Interesting goals and suggestions! • Tutorial on using different information sources (PubMed, etc.) • How to track diseases using WHO, maps, etc. • How to find & select information sources • Problems of global information access • Finding and selecting sources • Importance of an interdisciplinary approach

11. Proposed LOs • Interdisciplinarity • EBPH • Creating focused questions and evaluating information using a PICO, etc. • Access to information

12. Proposed LOs (revised) • Interdisciplinarity • Evaluating information, creating a focused research question (EBPH w/o the name) • Access to information • OneHealth Portal/LibGuide

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15. After completing this lesson you will be able to: • Discuss the ways that different disciplines approach problems in One Health/One Medicine; • Identify at least two disciplinary perspectives on a One Health/One Medicine problem; and • Identify elements in research results that provide clues to the disciplinary approach used in the research. • Describe how these perspectives/findings are shared in published research (research cycle).

16. In this lesson we will explore interdisciplinary research and it’s importance in the One Health /One Medicine approach to problem solving in the health sciences. Learn more about the origins of the One Health initiative by clicking on each of the buttons below. One Health Initiative Calvin Schwabe William Osler Rudolf Virchow .

17. Humans Local National Disease Animals Environment Global “One Health is the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines – working locally, nationally, and globally – to attain optimal health for people, animals, and our environment” (AAVMC, 2009?).

18. A One Health approach is essential because no one person, profession, or nation can solve the major health problems we face today. Disease

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22. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Ecological Sci Picture It takes a web of researchers to resolve a problem. Different disciplines bring different perspectives, approaches, and methodologies to a problem and all of them combined make up a vast web of knowledge about the topic. Let’s continue by examining different approaches to Avian Influenza. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Disease Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture Ecological Sci Picture Vet Med Picture Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture

23. Avian Influenza Recent outbreaks of Avian Influenza in Asia have caused impacts worldwide. Locally, it caused human and animal deaths and it cost the worldwide economy tremendously. Researchers focused on preventing the spread of Avian Flu pose different questions as they work to understand and solve the problem. As they appear, match the research question below to the correct discipline by dragging it into place on the diagram How is avian flu transmitted to humans?

24. Disciplines conceive of problems differently which leads them to collect evidence from different sources and ultimately they employ different methods of analysis. For instance, some disciplines might be asking the type of questions that require a qualitative approach while others are primarily quantitative. [Not sure what from the OH/OM checklist you wanted to include here so I just put in this basic info. Perhaps just a link to the “Checklist for Evaluating Research” document?] Qualitative research involves analysis of descriptions. Data can be observed but not measured. (Colors, textures, smells, tastes, appearance, beauty, etc.) Data can include words (e.g., from interviews), pictures (e.g., video), or objects (e.g., an artifact). Qualitative → Quality Quantitative research involves analysis of numerical data. Data which can be measured. (Length, height, area, volume, weight, speed, time, temperature, humidity, sound levels, cost, members, ages, etc.) Quantitative → Quantity  vs.

25. Avian Influenza Let’s return to the case of the 2003 Hong Kong Avian Influenza outbreak. Examine this diagram depicting researchers from 4 disciplines and their research questions. Think about the type of data they will need to collect, where it will come from and what analysis methods they might employ. Use that information to answer the following questions. Anthropologist Public Health Veterinarian Problem: Preventing the Spread of Avian Flu Public Health Practitioner/Researcher Biomedical Researcher • Which researcher is most likely to use a qualitative approach? • Public Health Veterinarian • Public Health Practitioner • Anthropologist • Biomedical Researcher • [Submit] What is the cultural importance of domestic chicken raising in China? What are effective practices for increasing influenza vaccination among Chinese domestic poultry populations? How has the H5N1 virus evolved in the past 10 years? What was the role of public health nurses in controlling the 2003 Hong Kong AI outbreak?

26. Avian Influenza Let’s return to the case of the 2003 Hong Kong Avian Influenza outbreak. Examine this diagram depicting researchers from 4 disciplines and their research questions. Think about the type of data they will need to collect, where it will come from and what analysis methods they might employ. Use that information to answer the following questions. Anthropologist Public Health Veterinarian Problem: Preventing the Spread of Avian Flu Public Health Practitioner/Researcher Biomedical Researcher • Which professionals are most likely to use a blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis methods?(check all that apply) • Public Health Veterinarian • Public Health Practitioner • Anthropologist • Biomedical Researcher • [Submit] What is the cultural importance of domestic chicken raising in China? What are effective practices for increasing influenza vaccination among Chinese domestic poultry populations? How has the H5N1 virus evolved in the past 10 years? What was the role of public health nurses in controlling the 2003 Hong Kong AI outbreak?

27. Avian Influenza Let’s return to the case of the 2003 Hong Kong Avian Influenza outbreak. Examine this diagram depicting researchers from 4 disciplines and their research questions. Think about the type of data they will need to collect, where it will come from and what analysis methods they might employ. Use that information to answer the following questions. Anthropologist Public Health Veterinarian Problem: Preventing the Spread of Avian Flu Public Health Practitioner/Researcher Biomedical Researcher • Which researcher is mostl likely to collect their data directly from the infectious agent? • Public Health Veterinarian • Public Health Practitioner • Anthropologist • Biomedical Researcher • [Submit] What is the cultural importance of domestic chicken raising in China? What are effective practices for increasing influenza vaccination among Chinese domestic poultry populations? How has the H5N1 virus evolved in the past 10 years? What was the role of public health nurses in controlling the 2003 Hong Kong AI outbreak?

28. There’s no doubt that multidisciplinary information is easier to find than ever before. But not all articles about your research topic are created equal - you must be able to decode clues about the author’s discipline to be an effective researcher. Understanding how to interpret interdisciplinary research is vital to a One Health /One Medicine approach.

29. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Ecological Sci Picture Summary By now you should have a better understanding of why interdisciplinary research is important in the One Health /One Medicine approach to problem solving in the health sciences. It’s important to remember that: • Different disciplines approach the same health problem in different ways; • These differing perspectives create a vast web of knowledge that can be used by researchers seeking to work with a One Health/One Medicine approach; and • You must identify elements in research results that provide clues to the disciplinary approach used in the research. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Disease Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture Ecological Sci Picture Vet Med Picture Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture

30. What’s next? Decoding clues about an author’s discipline is one step in conducting interdisciplinary research. You must also evaluate the quality of the information in the article. Learn more about how in this “Evaluating Research” tutorial. With an understanding of different disciplinary approaches and the ability to evaluate research, you’ll be ready to conduct interdisciplinary research. How will you use it to inform your work? To get started, download this worksheet . For more information and resources about One Health / One Medicine, visit the UW Madison research portal on the topic.

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37. Conclusions/Lessons learned In a multidisciplinary, somewhat fuzzy project such as this you need: • Clarity of goals • Firm deadlines • SLIS student (hopefully)

38. Participants • Gabe Gossett • Barb Hamel • Chris Hooper-Lane • Collaborating faculty: • Chris Olsen • Kurt Sladtky • Lori DiPrete Brown • Jonathan Patz • Barbara Duerst • Eileen Horn • Jeannette McDonald • C.K. Worel (sp?) • Allan Barclay

39. Thank You • PH/HA Section • PSS Section • UW – Madison

40. Links Sample Learning Objects • Neatproject.org: bit.ly/yCgDc Slides • http://bit.ly/Pl3QP

41. Full learning object slides follow

42. One Health – One Medicine:Information LiteracyInterdisciplinarity

43. After completing this lesson you will be able to: • Discuss the ways that different disciplines approach problems in One Health/One Medicine; • Identify at least two disciplinary perspectives on a One Health/One Medicine problem; and • Identify elements in research results that provide clues to the disciplinary approach used in the research. • Describe how these perspectives/findings are shared in published research (research cycle).

44. In this lesson we will explore interdisciplinary research and it’s importance in the One Health /One Medicine approach to problem solving in the health sciences. Learn more about the origins of the One Health initiative by clicking on each of the buttons below. [Embedded One Health/One Medicine LO] One Health Initiative Calvin Schwabe William Osler Rudolf Virchow .

45. Humans Local National Disease Animals Environment Global “One Health is the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines – working locally, nationally, and globally – to attain optimal health for people, animals, and our environment” (AAVMC, 2009?).

46. A One Health approach is essential because no one person, profession, or nation can solve the major health problems we face today. Disease

47. Human Med Picture Disease Vet Med Picture Ecological Sci Picture

48. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Ecological Sci Picture Human Med Picture Disease Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture Ecological Sci Picture Vet Med Picture

49. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Ecological Sci Picture Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Disease Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture Ecological Sci Picture Vet Med Picture Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture

50. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Ecological Sci Picture It takes a web of researchers to resolve a problem. Different disciplines bring different perspectives, approaches, and methodologies to a problem and all of them combined make up a vast web of knowledge about the topic. Let’s continue by examining different approaches to Avian Influenza. Human Med Picture Human Med Picture Disease Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture Ecological Sci Picture Vet Med Picture Vet Med Picture Anthropology picture