The role of the veterinary sector in the COVID19 pandemic responses
Staff involved: Luís Pedro Carmo, Filipe Maximiano Sousa, Charlotte Warembourg, Laura Silva, Damarys Montano Valle, Brian Friker, John Berezowski
Duration: May 2020 – ongoing
One Health is about people from different fields (e.g. public health, animal health and environmental health) working together to deal with complex health problems. Recent press reports indicate that veterinarians and others working in animal health have been assisting with public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this short questionnaire is to document the role of the veterinary sector in COVID-19 responses worldwide. This information will be used to explore the roles and relationships that have been formed during this outbreak, identify ways to sustain these relationships and opportunities to build new ones in order to deal with future public health, animal health or One Health crises.
This project is an international collaboration including colleagues from the Veterinary Public Health Institute (VPHI) of the University of Bern (Switzerland), the European Network for EcoHealth and One Health (NEOH), the One Health Latin America + Ibero & The Caribbean Coalition (OHLAIC), the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), the University of Zürich (Switzerland), SAFOSO AG (Switzerland), the City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR), the University of Ilorin (Nigeria), University of Damanhour (Egypt), the Applied Research Center of Chile (Chile) and the University of Sydney (Australia).
