Engaging National Policy-Making to Affect Global Animal Health, Food Systems, Trade, and Public Health
Washington D.C.
Tentative date:
March 22-26, 2010
A joint program of the School for Global Animal Health (Washington State University), The Global Food Safety Systems Leadership Initiative, and the Masters of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (University of California, Davis)
This program is part of the Science, Policy, Beliefs, and Animal Health Policy series. The theme is Global Health Surveillance: Detecting transboundary disease at the human-animal interface—understanding and influencing the policy of U.S. investment in an international system.
The program is directed by:
William M. Sischo, DVM, PhD
Professor in the School for Global Animal
Health, Washington State University
William D. Hueston
Endowed Chair, Global Food Systems Leadership, University of Minnesota
About the program
Using directed experiential learning and food system issues, participants will experience public policy-making at a national level. This course is structured around visits within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and interactions with key leaders from USDA, FDA, embassies, professional organizations, NGOs, Executive Office of the President, food industry and consumer organizations, and Congress. Participants will have the opportunity to integrate their knowledge and skills in animal health, public health, communication, and food safety with national and international animal health policy.
Participants will draw on the current issues surrounding the use of antimicrobials in animal agriculture to explore the development and implementation of national standards and policy. The program will emphasize the impact of these policies on food safety, animal health, trade, and public health.