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Our first year BVM students have travelled to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. They will be spending five weeks at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Upstate New York where they will learn about husbandry and management of cattle, sheep and horses as part of their extra-mural studies. The students are accompanied by the Extra-mural Education Coordinator, Dr Queeny Yuen.
Dr Barbara Padalino received the 2018 Animal Welfare Award of the Animal Transport Association (ATA)
Dr Barbara Padalino (Assistant Professor in Animal Behaviour and Welfare at the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health) was presented with the Animal Welfare Award of the Animal Transportation Association (ATA) at its Annual Award Dinner on 9 April 2018 in Orlando, Florida.
Seminar Date: 2nd May 2018
The College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) hosted University of Sydney PhD student Luisa Olmo for two weeks and assisted in serological analysis of over 1000 cattle and buffalo sera samples from Laos and Cambodia at CityU’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
The article ‘Risk factors for racehorse fatalities identified in British study’ about a study by Dr Sarah Rosanowski et al. appeared on Horsetalk.co.nz.
The College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences and its Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BVM) programme featured in several Hong Kong newspapers recently.
Prof. Dirk Pfeiffer (Chair Professor of One Health, CityU), led a team of researchers from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) London, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Institute for Animal Sciences and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, in a study investigating avian influenza in free-grazing ducks in Vietnam.
The World Health Organization (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly held an expert workshop in Geneva, from 26 to 28 February 2018, to further advance the development of the Tripartite Zoonoses Guide (TZG) and discuss overarching issues and specific topics related to the TZG content.
The article ‘Blanket rule: Light cotton rugs are no match for good shade on a hot day, study finds’ by Dr Padalino (Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health) et al. has been published on Horsetalk.co.nz.