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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.
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.