Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group

The Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group is part of the RVC's Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences. The Group is jointly led by Professor Dirk Pfeiffer and Professor Katharina Stärk and currently consists of 10 academic staff members.

The Group's strengths lie in the provision of postgraduate teaching at MSc level and in epidemiological and public health research. It also offers specialist training to senior clinical training scholars (residents) following the curriculum of the European College of Veterinary Public Health.

Both postgraduate training and research are aimed at the national as well as the international level. The Group is involved with research in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. The Group has specific methodological strengths in

risk analysis
design and evaluation of surveillance systems
spatial analysis
social network analysis
animal health economics

Through postgraduate training the Group has forged strategic links with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and DEFRA's Veterinary Laboratories Agency as part of postgraduate training. Research links exist to the Centre for Epidemiology and Risk Analysis within the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO - Rome), Institute for Animal Health (UK), CIRAD (France) and ARC- Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (South Africa).