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Communication Definition: Includes competencies that foster effective communication
and information sharing across disciplines and sectors

Subdomains:
1. Communication Management: Its competencies consist of:
1.1 Listen to others, and communicate in a manner that fosters open
communication to support and enable a One Health response
1.2 Communicate effectively with the media and the public

1.3 Identify who the designated spokesperson(s) is/are for a particular
issue
1.4 Demonstrate ability to communicate about risks at multiple levels
2. Information Management: Its competencies consist of:
2.1 Analyze lessons learned in the field in a way that other team
members can understand how they are relevant to a zoonotic
disease threat
2.2 Use fundamental IT methods and demonstrate willingness to
learn new technologies as needed
2.3 Collect, manage, organize, and report data to ensure that each
person in the team has the information needed to do one’s job

2.4 Know about government’s, industry’s, and academic policies on
releasing and sharing of information

Systems Thinking Definition: Includes competencies that recognize how elements influence
and interact with one another within a whole that results from the dynamic
interdependencies among human, animal, environmental, and ecological
systems, and how these interdependencies affect the relationships among
individuals, groups, organizations, and communities
Subdomains:

1. Systems Knowledge: Its competencies consist of:
1.1 Provide examples of integrated complex systems that include
human, animal, environmental, and ecological components, and
identify key characteristics, elements, and integration points where
individual system components (e.g. social networks, organizations,
government, communities, ecosystems) interact
1.2 Explain how the contexts of gender, culture, beliefs, history, etc.
are important in the design of interventions within One Health
systems
2. Systems Management: Its competencies consist of:

2.1 Demonstrate the ability to integrate information across disciplines
and sectors, to determine and mitigate potential unintended
consequences of planned interventions in a complex system
2.2 Provide an example of unintended consequences produced by
changes in one part of a One Health system
2.3 Analyze the effects of political, social, and economic policies on
One Health systems at the local, state, national, and international
levels

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