Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology

Mandate:

• To commence Under-graduate teaching in Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology.
• To conduct research in core area like Food safety, Zoonoses, Antimicrobial resistance, One health, Epidemiology Environmental hygiene.
• To strengthen public health framework with emphasis on prevalent zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, one health, transboundary diseases, rapid diagnostics, and, extension activities etc.,
• To create awareness among people about prevalent zoonotic diseases, food safety, personal hygiene, prevention and control strategies, disaster management and environmental issues.

There are total three laboratories like milk hygiene, meat hygiene and zoonoses cum epidemiology lab for the UG teaching purpose.

U.G. Courses (As per MSVE-2016) will be offered to incoming students in near future in the 3rd Professional Year

Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology             Credits: 3+1=4

THEORY

• UNIT-1 (VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY)
• UNIT-2 (VETERINARY EPIDEMIOLOGY)
• UNIT-3 (ZOONOTIC DISEASES)
• UNIT-4 (ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE)

PRACTICAL

• UNIT-1 (VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY)
• UNIT-2 (VETERINARY EPIDEMIOLOGY)
• UNIT-3 (ZOONOTIC DISEASES)
• UNIT-4 (ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE)

One ongoing project

• Title: prevailing marketing practices for poultry meat and its quality assessment in Kishanganj.

            Co-PI: Dr. Diksha P. Gourkhede

            Project code: DR/CVS/LPT-01/2024-25