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Lisa Kohnle (Research Assistant at CityU’s Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice) recently travelled to Chiang Mai, Thailand, to give an oral presentation entitled ‘Global trade and infectious disease spread: risks associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative’ at the 5th Food Safety and Zoonoses Symposium for Asia Pacific from the 6th to the 7th of July 2018.
The latest edition of the CityU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory newsletter has just been published.
Dr Akos Kenez, Assistant Professor for Veterinary Physiology at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, visited the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. During his three-month stay, he studied Cornell’s veterinary curriculum and teaching practices, with a special focus on problem-based learning concepts and techniques.
Professor David Hampson (Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health/Chair Professor of Pathobiology) was an invited co-chair of a session on bacteriology and bacterial diseases at the 25th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress held in Chongqing, China, in June this year.
Dr Ioannis Magouras recently joined the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health as Assistant Professor in Food Safety/Veterinary Public Health.
Prof. Reichel (Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences) attended the ‘QS World Class 2018’ meeting in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in April this year and gave an invited presentation on the setting up of a world-class, internationally credible veterinary school in Hong Kong.
The setting up of veterinary schools is a growth industry around the world. Presently there is another new school in the final stages of establishing itself in the United Kingdom – the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Surrey in Guildford.
Professor David Hampson (Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health / Chair Professor of Pathobiology) was awarded the 2018 Gilruth Prize by the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA).
Ad hoc groups are convened at the initiative of the OIE Director General and experts are selected based on their experience and scientific excellence.
Dr Barbara Padalino (Assistant Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health) was recently interviewed on the ‘1 2 3’ programme on Radio 3 (Hong Kong) where she talked about travelling with animals.