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Uniting multidisciplinary research with veterinary education to solve some of today’s greatest global health challenges. 

Program Team

Vision, Mission and Goals

Veterinarians have an increasingly important role to play in addressing the grand global challenges of the 21^st century, particularly in areas such as infectious disease control, antimicrobial resistance, food security and global health [1]. An increasing human population, urbanization, growing demand for livestock products and climate change will place greater pressures on the environment, human and animal health, and livelihoods. The advances of the 21^st century have led to a world that is increasingly interconnected. Globalization will see global problems becoming U.S. problems.

In the coming decades many of the major challenges to human health will originate outside of the human health sector. These range from emerging zoonotic diseases to pollution and climate change [2]. Tackling these challenges effectively will require multidisciplinary approaches with consideration given to the broader systems that encompass health.

Committee Members