Master of Veterinary Public Health

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The Master of Veterinary Public Health education is a post graduate master programme dealing with control of contagious animal diseases and zoonoses, veterinary epidemiology, and animal health economics. Besides a general knowledge in disease control and prevention, you will obtain competences to develop and implement methods and comprehensive strategies for surveillance and risk assessment, control, prevention and eradication of diseases in production animals – at the herd, regional, national and international level - and to further evaluate the economical consequences of different control strategies.

The programme primarily addresses persons working with control of production animal diseases - typically in the veterinary services, agricultural organizations for primary animal production (e.g. swine, cattle, poultry, fish, fur animals), the food processing industry, pharmaceutical industry or veterinary institutions involved in research and disease control.

The courses are planned as a combination of distance learning (e-learning) and on-campus learning. Activities include lectures and theoretical and practical exercises with independent as well as group studies, in order to train and qualify students in the application of theoretical knowledge. Each course is completed by evaluation of submitted material and reports and/or an examination.

We offer you guidance in all course activities, reports and exercises. Also, the master project is completed under guidance of a supervisor employed at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Kind regards

Jens Frederik Agger,

Head of the Master of Veterinary Public Health Programme