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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.
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.
The ‘Summer School 2018: Familiarisation with Veterinary Medicine’ started this Monday and will run for two weeks.
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.
Dr Dal Young Kim recently joined the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health as Assistant Professor in Veterinary Virology.
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.