Veterinary Public Health

Agencies and Associations

Federal

• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)) 

• Center for Veterinary Medicine - (Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S.) 

• National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) - (Department of Homeland Security U.S.)  - The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will research high-consequence biological threats involving zoonotic (i.e., transmitted from animals to humans) and foreign animal diseases.

• National Biological Information Infrastructure - (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) U.S.)  - A collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources, NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations and private industry.

• National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) 

• National Wildlife Health Center - (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) U.S.)  - Wildlife disease news digest and surveillance of wildlife mortality events nationwide.

• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)

• U.S. Army Veterinary Service Corps

• Veterinarians in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps - (Public Health Service (USPHS) U.S.) 

International

• Animal Production and Health Division - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations - (United Nations) 

• Veterinary Medicines Directorate - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (U.K.)

• Veterinary Public Health & Feed and Food Safety - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations - (United Nations) 

• Veterinary Public Health - Australia

• Veterinary Public Health - Pan American Health Organization - (Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)) 

• World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE - Office International des Epizooties) - Classifies animal diseases into those notifiable to the OIE. These transmissible diseases have the potential for very serious and rapid spread, irrespective of national borders, that are of serious socio-economic or public health consequence and that are of major importance in the international trade of animals and animal products. Publications include the terrestrial and aquatic animal health codes, manuals of diagnostic tests, and vaccine information. Many publications are also available in Spanish and French.

• Zoonoses and Veterinary Public Health - World Health Organization - (World Health Organization (WHO)) 

Professional and Research

• American Association of Public Health Veterinarians

• American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians

• American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine

• Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

• Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)

• Med-Vet-Net - Network for the Prevention and Control of Zoonoses - Med-Vet-Net includes 7 veterinary, 7 public health institutes and one learned society from 10 European countries. All partner institutes have national reference laboratory-based responsibilities for the prevention and control of zoonoses. Website offers links to events, research information on zoonotic diseases, and a newsletter available as an RSS feed.

• National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (U.S.)

• One Health Commission - This commission brings together the American Society for Microbiology, the American Medical Association, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Academic Health Centers, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies cooperating across disciplines to achieve optimal health for people, domestic animals and wildlife.

• One Health Initiative: One World, One Medicine, One Health - Laura H Kahn, MD,MPH, MPP Bruce Kaplan, DVM; Thomas P. Monath, MD

• Public Health Information - American Veterinary Medical Association - (American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)) 

• United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) - USAHA is a science-based, non-profit, voluntary organization comprised of state and federal animal health officials, national allied organizations, regional representatives, and individual members. USAHA works with state and federal governments, universities, veterinarians, livestock producers, national livestock and poultry organizations, research scientists, the extension service and seven foreign countries to control livestock diseases in the United States. Website includes links to all the animal industry and species-specific veterinary associations as well as agencies and disease-specific information.

• Veterinary Medical Libraries Section - Medical Library Association

• Veterinary Public Health Association, a division of the British Veterinary Association.

• Veterinary Public Health Special Primary Interest Group - American Public Health Association - (American Public Health Association (APHA)) 

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Biosecurity and Emergency Response

• National Animal Control Association

• National Veterinary Response Team

• Shelter Pages Directory - The Humane Society of the United States

• State Animal Response Teams

• Veterinary Medical Assistance Teams

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E-Mail Lists and Conferences

• Conference of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE)

• International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists - Repository of conference papers from the ICAHIS housed at Washington State University

• One Medicine Symposium - (North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services U.S., North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services U.S.)  - December 9, 2009, Durham, North Carolina

• ProMED-mail - The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. It has several moderators for animal diseases and zoonoses and uses electronic communications to provide up-to-date news on disease outbreaks around the world.

• Schwabe Symposium - Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine/ Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases - Honors the lifetime achievement of individuals who have made significant contributions in veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine. The Symposium was named for its first awardee, Dr. Calvin W. Schwabe. The Symposium is held in conjunction with the annual Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases.

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Data and Statistics

• Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) 

• Global Early Warning System for Major Animal Diseases, including Zoonoses (GLEWS) - (World Health Organization (WHO)) 

• National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) - Part of a nationwide strategy to coordinate the work of all organizations providing animal disease surveillance and testing services.

• National Animal Health Surveillance System - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)) 

• National Animal Identification System - The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is an information system that helps producers and animal health officials respond quickly and effectively to animal disease events in the United States by registering premises that house animals. Individual animal registration and tracing are also possible.

• National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - NARMS is a collaboration among Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Center for Veterinary Medicine) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (Food Safety and Inspection Service and Agricultural Research Services) within the framework of FoodNet and CDC's Emerging Infections Program's Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Program.

• National Avian Influenza Surveillance Information

• National Residue Program (Chemistry) - Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA))  - FSIS conducts tests for chemicals-including antibiotics, sulfonamides, and various other drugs, pesticides and environmental chemicals-in meat, poultry and egg products destined for human consumption. This site links to the sampling plan, the testing results and information on the tests used, as well as a list of violators.

• Wildlife Disease Information Node (WDIN) - (Biological Informatics Office of the U.S. Geological Survey)  - WDIN is a collaborative project working to develop a Web-based monitoring and reporting system to provide state and federal resource managers, animal disease specialists, veterinary diagnostic laboratories, physicians, public health workers, educators, and the general public with access to data on wildlife diseases, mortality events, and other critical related information.

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Legislation and Policy

• Animal Legal & Historical Web Center - Michigan State University College of Law - Includes state veterinary practice laws. Browse by Topic, Subject, Species or select laws by State or Federal categories. Some world laws are also included.

• Regulations & Policies - Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)) 

• Review of European Union Veterinary Residues Legislation - Veterinary Medicines Directorate (U.K.)

• State public health veterinarians of the United States - (American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA))  - Contact information for the public health veterinarian for each state.

• Veterinary Public Health Workforce Expansion Act of 2007 - A bill to establish a competitive grant program to build capacity in veterinary medical education and expand the workforce of veterinarians engaged in public health practice and biomedical research.

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Literature and Reports

Collected Materials

• An Agenda for Action: Veterinary Medicine's Crucial Role in Public Health and Biodefense and the Obligation of Academic Veterinary Medicine to Respond - Journal of Veterinary Medical Education - Conference proceedings papers from An agenda for action: Veterinary medicine's crucial role in public health and biodefense and the obligation of academic veterinary medicine to respond. Washington, DC, USA. November 1-3, 2002. Published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, Summer 2003, Volume 30, Issue 2. Subscription required for online access.

• Canary Database - (Yale University)  - The Canary Database is a compilation of peer-reviewed research articles related to the use of animals as sentinels of human health hazards. This database contains information added by trained curators in addition to bibliographic records from MEDLINE and other well-known databases.

• FDA Veterinarian - (Food and Drug Administration (FDA) U.S.)  - FDA Veterinarian newsletter is published bi-monthly. Issues back to 1995 are free online. Topic indexes are available from 1995-2003 and the site may be searched.

• Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Center - Biodefense Resource Center, Humanitarian Resource Institute - The Biodefense Reference Library is a collaborative initiative of international medical, veterinary and scientific experts to share information and enhance academic discussion of issues associated with preparedness, response, mitigation and policy.

• Global Health Database - CABI.Org - Global Health database is published by CABI which has recorded public health and veterinary research since 1910-it contains over 2 million records to the published literature in animal and human health. Normally a subscription database, Global Health Datbase was made freely available during swine flu investigations.

• International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) - IVIS website provides free (registration required) access to original, up-to-date publications, proceedings of veterinary meetings, short courses, continuing education, an international calendar of veterinary events, image collections and much more.

• Preventive Veterinary Medicine - Elsevier - This journal indexed by PubMed covers international research and developments in veterinary epidemiology, animal disease prevention and control, and animal health economics. Read abstracts online for free-subscription required to access full text.

Individual Items

• Animal Health at the Crossroads: Preventing, Detecting, and Diagnosing Animal Diseases - (National Academies Press (NAP))  - This 2005 report was produced by the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Compendium of Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings, 2009 - National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc.

• Confronting zoonoses, linking human and veterinary medicine - Laura Kahn, Princeton University - This paper published in Emerg Infect Dis 2006;12:556-61 provides an introduction to notification processes for zoonotic diseases.

• Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science - Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, National Academies - Public health and food safety are one of the areas highlighted in this 2005 report which discusses how veterinary research offers numerous opportunities for improving animal and human health. Pages 132-6 discuss the CDC's involvement in veterinarian training and research.

• Economic and Social Consequences of Animal Disease - Dr. Francois Le Gall, Lead Livestock Specialist, World Bank - This web document outlines the complex consequences of animal diseases in domesticated birds and livestock and links to other relevant websites.

• Foreign Animal Diseases (The Gray Book) - United States Animal Health Association - The seventh edition (2008) of the Committee on Foreign and Infectious Diseases of the United States Animal Health Association gray book. Over 400 pages including many color photographs.

• Future Trends in Veterinary Public Health - World Health Organization - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - This 96-page report was published in 2002 as number 907 in the WHO Technical Report Series.

• Livestock to 2020: the next food revolution - International Food Policy Research Institute - This 83-page paper authored by Delgado C, Rosegrant M, Steinfeld H, Ehui S, Courbois C in 1999 was published as Food, agriculture, and the environment discussion paper 28.

• Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response - National Academy Press - This 2003 report was produced by the Board on Global Health of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Nonfatal Fall-Related Injuries Associated with Dogs and Cats---United States, 2001-2006 - CDC - This report published in the MMWR March 27, 2009;58(11):277-281 presents data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program.

• Veterinarians in Population Health and Public Practice: Meeting Critical National Needs - Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges - Freely available web version of white paper published in Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 2003;30:287-294.

• Veterinarians: Integral Partners in Public Health - Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges - (Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges)  - Harry Michael Chaddock developed this 25-page paper (n.d.) at the request of U.S. Senate staffers to show how veterinarians are involved in public health issues.

• Veterinary Medicine and Public Health at CDC - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - Lonnie J. King, DVM wrote this article published in the MMWR December 22, 2006; 55(SUP02);7-9.

• Veterinary Public Health and Control of Zoonoses in Developing Countries - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - (United Nations)  - Published in 2003, this document offers a summary of comments and discussions from the FAO/WHO/OIE 1999 electronic conference on Veterinary Public Health and Control of Zoonoses in Developing Countries in English, French and Spanish.

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Veterinary Animal Health and Food Borne Disease Information

Animal Health

• Animal Health - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)) 

• Animal Health: Emerging Animal Disease (AHEAD) - (Federation of American Scientists (FAS))  - Policy research, analysis and education project to address global security issues impacted by outbreaks of animal and zoonotic diseases.

• Companion Animal Parasite Council (CAPC) - CAPC, an independent industry-sponsored council established to create guidelines for the optimal control of internal and external parasites that threaten the health of pets and people. Brings together broad expertise in parasitology, internal medicine, public health, veterinary law, private practice and association leadership and provides consumer and practitioner information on separate websites. Some Spanish materials.

• CONSULTANT - College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University - CONSULTANT is a veterinary diagnostic support system used to suggest possible causes for clinical signs and symptoms. It provides a brief synopsis of the cause including a general description, species affected, associated signs/symptoms, and literature references.

• Disease Factsheets - Center for Food Security and Public Health, University of Iowa - This information includes images, presentations, speaker's notes and a vaccine directory for diseases which are notifiable to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) as well as a number of zoonotic agents.

• HealthMap - The free HealthMAP brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. Integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization) aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert.

• Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA) - Pan American Health Organization (Brazil) - PANAFTOSA houses the Virtual Library in Veterinary Public Health (http://bvs.panaftosa.org.br/index.php?lang=en) and several information systems: the Epidemiological Information System SIEPI, the Epidemiological Surveillance System for Rabies in the Americas SIRVERA, and the Continental Epidemiological Surveillance System SIVCONT (production and training). It also offers events, which are routinely announced via the PANAFTOSA Regional Events Directory.

• Plum Island Animal Disease Center - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Homeland Security

• Zoonoses - The Merck Veterinary Manual - Edited by Susan E. Aiello, B.S., D.V.M., E.L.S. and published by Merck & Co., Inc. NJ, USA, the Manual is a free online browseable and searchable reference that describes many zoonotic diseases and provides a quick reference table of more than 200 Global Zoonoses with distribution, probable means of transmission and clinical manifestations in humans.

• Zoonoses and foodborne animal pathogens - Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (U.K.) - Introductory page to zoonosis activities of the United Kingdom providing links to zoonosis groups and relevant documents, reports and Codes of Practice.

• Zoonoses: Information Resources - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - Factsheets on diseases or infections which are naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans.

Food Borne Illness

• Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES) - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations - (United Nations)  - The Animal Disease Component of EMPRES offers information and maps about transboundary animal diseases that are among the most contagious and place a serious burden on the economies of the countries in which they occur.

• Food Defense & Emergency Response - Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA))  - Guidance materials on developing a food defense plan and training materials and podcasts for for front-line employees in the food and agriculture industry.

• Food Safety - World Health Organization - (World Health Organization (WHO))  - The Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases works with other WHO departments, Regional Offices and WHO collaborating centres as well as other international and national agencies. In particular, WHO works closely with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to address food safety issues along the entire food production chain. Its website includes the Department's publications including Food Safety News and the Initiative to estimate the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases.

• Food Safety: From the Farm to the Fork -European Union - Presents the European Union integrated approach to food safety, animal health, animal welfare and plant health through coherent farm-to-table measures and adequate monitoring.

• International Portal on Food Safety, Animal and Plant Health (IPFSAPH) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - (United Nations)  - IPFSAPH is a joint undertaking between a number of standard-setting organizations and international agencies. It was developed by FAO in association with Codex Alimentarius, the IPPC Secretariat and OIE. The site facilitates trade in food and agriculture products and supports the implementation of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement by providing a single access point for authorized official international and national information across the sectors of food safety, animal and plant health. Also available in Spanish and French.

• National Agricultural Biosecurity Center - Kansas State University - (Kansas State University (KSU))  - Home of the future DHS-funded National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility (NBAF)

• PulseNet International - (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC))  - International Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Disease Surveillance for USA, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East provides technical information on standard laboratory protocols for molecular subtyping of the pathogens under surveillance by PulseNet laboratories.

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Education and Training

• Entry Training for the Public Health Veterinarian - Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)) 

• Foreign Animal Disease Training - APHIS, USDA - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA))  - Site includes scientific and general video presentations on foreign animal diseases, as well as links to the Foreign Animal Disease Gray Book and a list of disinfectants registered by the Environmental Protection Agency.

• Papers on Public Health Training for Veterinarians - Journal of Veterinary Medical Education - Abstracts online from the Summer 2008 special issue (Volume 35, Number 2) copublished with Public Health Reports. A subscription is required to access the full text.

• Papers on the Interface between Public Health and Veterinary Medicine - Public Health Reports. - Free full text of papers on a special issue (Volume 123, Number 3) focusing how public health and veterinary medicine interface to improve human health, animal health, and food safety. Copublished with the Journal of Veterinary Medical Education.

• Veterinary Food Safety Education Learning Object Repository - The University of Wisconsin partnered with the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) to provide this repository of food safety-related learning objects. Includes access to UTMB's Clinical Laboratory Science learning objects. Free registration required. This project is sponsored in part by the US Department of Agriculture, Higher Education Challenge Grant.

Academic Programs

• Combined Master of Public Health/Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program - College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO) - The College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics have created a combined 5-year program of study that can result in earning both the Masters in Public Health degree and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees.

• Coordinated MPH (Health Behavior) DVM (School of Veterinary Medicine) - Auburn University, School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Public Health

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine/Master of Public Health (DVM/MPH) Joint Degree - University of Florida

• Dual Degree DVM/MPH - School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• DVM-MPH Degree Program - University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

• DVM/Master of Public Health Program - Tufts University (North Grafton, MA)

• DVM/Masters of Public Health Program - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• DVM/MPH dual degree program - College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) - The Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine offers a DVM/MPH degree program in collaboration with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

• DVM/MPH Dual-Degree Program at the University of Minnesota - The Veterinary Public Health (VPH) program allows students to combine their veterinary studies at any accredited veterinary college while pursuing the M.P.H. at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health.

• Emphasis in Infectious Disease/Zoonoses, Master of Public Health Program - Kansas State University

• Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine - University of California- Davis - This specialized master's degree program focuses on preventive medicine, but is not an accredited public health degree.

• Master of Science in Veterinary Public Health Texas A&M - The Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health program is administered through the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences within the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

• Master of Veterinary Public Health - North Carolina State University

• MPH Program for Veterinarians - The University of Iowa College of Public Health and Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine

• Purdue University Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary Homeland Security - National Biosecurity Resource Center for Animal Health Emergencies - Long-distance graduate-level program with courses certified by APHIS.

• Veterinary Public Health - University of Glasgow

• Veterinary Public Health Concentration - University of Tennessee

• Veterinary Public Health Program - The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine

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Grants and Funding

• Current Research Information System - (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA))  - CRIS is the USDA's documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.

• Ecology of Infectious Diseases - National Science Foundation - The Ecology of Infectious Diseases program solicitation supports the development of predictive models and the discovery of principles governing the transmission dynamics of infectious disease agents.

• EquineResearch.net - Database of currently funded equine research projects established by the AAEP Foundation, AQHA Foundation, Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation and Morris Animal Foundation.

• Morris Animal Foundation - Large nonprofit foundation 501(c)(3) dedicated to funding research studies to protect, treat and cure animals, including companion animals (dogs, cats, horses, llamas/alpacas), as well as wildlife (mountain gorillas, elephants, rhinoceros, wolves, and many varieties of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish).

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