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A high point of the ceremony was the announcement by University Grants Committee (UGC) Chairman Mr Carlson Tong Ka-shing that following the results of an international Task Force review, “UGC will be recommending to the Government to accept CityU’s proposal to establish an undergraduate Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM) programme starting from the 2019-2022 triennium, as a publicly-funded programme.” I
Our college, Hong Kong’s first and only veterinary college, has been named Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences in collaboration with Cornell University in a ceremony attended by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor.
A new study, titled “Livestock trade network: potential for disease transmission and implications for risk-based surveillance on the island of Mayotte”, has recently been published in Scientific Reports.
The Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, Prof. Reichel, and Dr Padalino (Assistant Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health) recently visited the Mai Po Nature Reserve, a designated Ramsar site and protected site of scientific interest managed by WWF Hong Kong.
New research makes an important contribution to the global eradication of Peste des Petits Ruminants
Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer (Chair Professor of One Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences and Director of the Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice) is part of an international team of researchers from CityU, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC, University of London), the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization CIRAD and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which investigated the spread of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR).
Dr Michael Doube recently joined the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health as Associate Professor.
Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer, Chair Professor of One Health, shared his insights on value chain analysis and outbreak investigation by using local case studies at the “Value Chain Analysis for Assessing Veterinary Surveillance Systems & Outbreak Investigation” workshop in Singapore on July 12, 2018.
Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer, Chair Professor of One Health, was a Plenary Speaker at the “One Health and Outbreak Surveillance Symposium– Integrative Strategies against Infectious Disease Outbreaks” in Singapore on July 13, 2018. He gave a talk entitled “One Health Approach - A Holistic Perspective for an Ever More Complex Future” to industry players from human, animal and environmental health sectors as well as local research and academic institutions involved in animal and human disease control in Singapore.
The ‘Summer School 2018: Familiarisation with Veterinary Medicine’ started this Monday and will run for two weeks.
Dr Dal Young Kim recently joined the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health as Assistant Professor in Veterinary Virology.