The CVMNAH and its SVM envision to create a unique health systems complex that serves the unique role that the college stands for by interlinking animal health and human health via the One Medicine framework.

* The plan is to build a facility of complexes that serves as a first rate clinical teaching and healthcare facility for companion animal medicine and food animal medicine, but also serves for providing preventive and health promotion for people, i.e. providing health services for the entire family of pets, children and parents. The preventive human health services that could be provided through the integrated health systems complex will include:

o Consulting on nutrition and health and exercise o Cholesterol tests, obesity and diabetes tests, blood pressure examinations etc. o Consulting on behavioral problems such as drug use, safe sex practices,

o Promoting the human-animal bond and related services. We envision a time and place at TU where families could come with their pets and the pets receive veterinary care while children and families could also receive human health related primary care services. As the boomer generation ages and retires, promoting the animal-human bond will become much stronger.

* This way, in such a new faculty of the 21 st century, human health faculty and students (nurses, occupational therapy and clinical laboratory professionals) could play a key role in putting the One Medicine~One Health approach along veterinary professionals and those that link the two disciplines much closer.

* Such a facility will require modern and advanced equipment to train and prepare healthcare professionals that could play special roles by interrelating animal and human health practices. This is especially pertinent in the rural Black Belt Counties of the Southern USA where TUSVM is located. The rural and underserved and economically disadvantaged communities where majority AA live and work often under unending cycle of poverty require such an integrative approach to healthcare services. This could also serve as a model even for other countries of the world.

* We encourage all individuals and organizations that are willing to support this institution of unique legacy and high achievement to contact the Dean's Office @334-727-8174 or via email (habtemart@tuskegee.edu)