The 2020-21 Office of Outreach and Engagement Impact Research Grants seek to identify faculty or faculty-led teams that turn their attention outward, with the community, addressing a pressing public issue or shared problem. From 56 applications, Dr. Berrian was one of 12 faculty to have been awarded a $10,000 grant to continue work focusing on education, health, food security, learning outcomes, and/or models for university-community partnerships.
Dr. Berrian’s project, with support from DVM/MPH-VPH student Natassja Boham, will entail a comprehensive evaluation of the 2020 Global One Health Conference, entitled “Strengthening Global Resilience through One Health: A 2020 Vision for a Sustainable Future.” Guiding the conference evaluation will be the New Learning Theory that has been used in learning settings that provide new insight or point out the cumulative learning within a topic or research thread. The New Learning Theory employs a framework of active learning through submission of attendees’ evaluations during each portion of the conference. The evaluation will be divided into preconference, intra-conference, and post-conference tasks. The conference will take place virtually, November 5-7, 2020.