Abstract

The University of Minnesota (UMN) is a land grant higher education institution that is globally recognized for its work on policy and public health. The Center for Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) at the UMN College of Veterinary Medicine is an OIE collaborating center for capacity building and an FAO reference center for veterinary public health. The objective of the presentation will be to provide an overview of relevant research, educational, and outreach activities on applied epidemiology, veterinary public health, and food animal population medicine at CAHFS and other relevant groups at the UMN CVM .

Bio: Andres M. Perez (DVM, PhD) is a veterinary epidemiologist, originally from Argentina. He is a Professor, Endowed Chair of Global Animal Health and Food Security; and Director of the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota (UMN). He is an Honorary Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, a Collaborating scientist/advisor to the USDA /ARS Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit at the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center, and has been awarded an American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) Honorary Diploma for 2021. He has led educational, outreach, and research activities in >40 countries, supervised, co-supervised, or mentored >50 graduate students in the field of animal health and food safety, and published >230 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He also serves as Chief editor of the Frontiers in Veterinary Science journal.