Georgetown University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States, founded on a Jesuit tradition of Restless Inquiry. At Georgetown, students are encouraged to learn through experience and connect across disciplines, recognizing that solving complex issues requires multidisciplinary thinking across fields of study.

Working together to integrate multiple lenses, a One Health collaboration brings together physicians, veterinarians, and environmental scientists to communicate and share resources to address zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. Addressing the expansion of disease vectors into new regions, shifts in vector abundance, spatial variation across vector range, and a greater burden in socioeconomically disadvantaged urban areas requires the integration of experts from human, animal, and ecosystem science.

This course is designed for medical professionals, public health practitioners, epidemiologists, researchers, students, and trainees. It will include short talks, hands-on laboratory, and modeling sessions from experts in medical entomology and researchers working in vector-borne disease expansion.