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Title: World Veterinary Association


1
World Veterinary Association
  • Dr.Tjeerd Jorna
  • President

2
World Veterinary Association and The general
role of the veterinary profession in public health
3
WVA
  • ONE WORLD, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH
  • Healthy animals Healthy People
  • ONE PROFESSION, ONE VISION, ONE VOICE

4
Mission statement
  • WVA is the global veterinary organization
    representing the veterinary profession in all
    aspects at global international level

5
History
  • 1863 International Veterinary Congresses
  • Founded by John Gamgee in Hamburg
  • 1863-1905 Congresses with issues like
  • Zoonoses
  • Veterinary Law and Meat Inspection
  • Education and Application of veterinary drugs
  • 1899 First World Congress
  • 1905 Permanent Committee established
  • 1959 World Veterinary Association
  • 1963 100 year World Animal Health Year
    Hannover
  • 1995-1999 Reconstruction WVA by Dr. A. Rantsios
    president
  • Issues like interests of the veterinary
    profession and her role in society

6
WVA professional objectives
  • Global policy-making in animal health, animal
    welfare, public health and zoonotic disease
  • Global policy-making in the relation of animal
    behaviour and climate change to animal disease
    control
  • Global accreditation system for EDUCATION as the
    guarantee of the quality of the profession
  • Global structure of veterinary services in good
    co-operation with OIE, FAO and WHO

7
Veterinary medicine
A N I M A l L H E A L T H
P U B L I C H E A L T H
A N I M A L W E L F A R E
8
Role veterinarians
  • Practitioner
  • Hygienist
  • Meat-inspection
  • State veterinary officer
  • Policy animal disease control and public health
  • Industry and Institutes
  • Education
  • Veterinary Faculties and Agriculture Schools
  • Environment and climate
  • Disease-monitoring

9
Animals

Science Knowledge / Skills Ethics /
Attitude Objective Independent Impartial
v
Society
Owners / Keepers
10
Cooperation
  • ONE WORLD, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH
  • (Roger K. Mahr)
  • To PROMOTE global veterinary policy
  • To REPRESENT all global veterinarians
  • To SUPPORT global activities
  • OIE, FAO, WHO, IFAH, IFAP, WSPA
  • To take knowledge of activities of
  • Institutes (CDC, ECDC), Governments, Politics,
    Activists
  • By PARTICIPATION - RESPONSIBILITY -
  • OPENNESS - TRANSPARENCY

11
One World One Health
  • A unified approach between veterinary and human
    medicine to improve Global Health


12
Global Animal Health Strategy
  • Main driver
  • One Health Approach
  • Objectives
  • Public Health and Food Safety
  • Animal Health and
  • Animal Welfare

13
Main issues
  • ANIMAL HEALTH
  • ANIMAL WELFARE
  • PUBLIC HEALTH
  • EDUCATION and LIFE LONG LEARNING

14
  • Veterinary Public Health
  • and
  • Human Public Health together meansGlobal
    Public Health

15
WHO definition of Veterinary Public Health
  •  The sum of all contributions to the complete
    physical, mental and social well being of humans
    through an understanding and application of
    veterinary medical science 

16
Public health
  • To maintain control of zoonotic diseases
  • To control food security and food safety
  • To support the structure of veterinary services
  • To organise terms of probation for people from
    developing countries

17
70 human pathogens are zoonoses!
  • Leptospirosis
  • Lyme Borreliosis
  • Q Fever
  • Rabies
  • Taeniasis
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Trematodosis
  • Trypanosomiasis
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tularaemia
  • Anthrax
  • Avian Influenza
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • BSE
  • Brucellosis
  • Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
  • Campylobacteriosis
  • E. Coli
  • Salmonellosis
  • Leishmaniasis

18
Through the wide variety of veterinary
tasks,every veterinarian contributes to public
health
  • Cure prevention of animal diseases
  • Health monitoring, surveillance and diagnosis
  • Food production and safety
  • Biomedical research
  • Animal welfare
  • Management of wild animal populations
  • Protection of drinking-H2O environment
  • Management of public health emergencies
  • etc...

19
  • The Veterinary Profession
  • is a
  • Health Profession!!

20
  • This cannot be realised by
  • competent authorities alone
  • individual veterinarians alone
  • But only by CO-OPERATION !!
  • Co-ordinated and concerted actions are essential

21
  • Public and private parties
  • have a common interest
  • and a shared responsibility to work together
  • Competent authorities
  • Contingency plans, border control, certification,
    legislation, implementation, enforcement.
  • Private practitioners
  • Obtain direct information from farmers, work
    close with the animals, decide on further
    actions, translate rules into practice
  • They are involved in The Stable to Table
    Approach

22
The official veterinarian
  • The official vet has a crucial role in
    veterinary
  • public health
  • Veterinarians are best qualified professionnals
  • Official veterinarian
  • - Specialist for official tasks
  • - Special qualification
  • - Various responsabilities

23
Tasks
  • Where do you meet official vets?
  • In policy and rule making authorities
    (ministries)
  • Laboratories
  • Veterinary services
  • Border inspection points

24
Tasks
  • What are the tasks covered by official vets?
  • Implementation of national and, since the 50ies,
  • EU legislation
  • Animal disease control
  • Improvement of animal welfare
  • Food and feed hygiene
  • Animal medicines
  • Competences different from country to country!!!

25
Tasks
  • Some areas of duty
  • Inspections of hygiene legislation
  • Inspections in animal welfare enforcement
  • Certification for trade of products from animal
    origin and of animals
  • Analysis of food and feed samples

26
Tasks
  • Official controls has to be performed
  • Risk based
  • Without prior warning
  • At all steps of production chain
  • Following SOPs, guidelines
  • - Documentation permits verification of
    effectiveness
  • - Control methods, sampling methods and
    techniques
  • Transparency and communication of control
  • activities

27
Tasks
  • Requirements in regard to the control staff
  • Multidisciplinary cooperation
  • Free from any conflict of interest
  • Adequately equipped and access to appropriate
    facilities
  • Appropriate qualified and trained
  • Not disclose information acquired if covered by
    professional secrecy

28
Tasks
  • Firstly due to the obligation for business
    operator to carry out their own checks (including
    HACCP)
  • Rule of official vets changed
  • From inspector to auditor

29
Official vets in society
  • Not in all countries well known (public and
    politics)
  • Scandals are appropriate ways to make public
    aware about the rule of official vets
  • Public asks for official vets in animal welfare
    issues

30
Official vets in society
  • Official vets are, like the whole veterinary
    profession,
  • the best kept secret globally
  • Way out
  • Show what you can, what you do, be engaged in the
    network of the whole veterinary profession and
    speak with one voice!

31
Tuberculosis
32
Q-koorts
33
SARS
34
Rabies
Rabies free
35
Avian influenza
H5N1
36
Tape worm
37
Food poisoning
  • Hygiene
  • Preparation
  • - Irradiation

From Stable to Table
38
Food poisoning
39
Thank you for your attention
  • When we all take our responsibility and I am be
    permitted to GUIDE all global veterinarians for
    the benefit of PEOPLE and ANIMALS my slogan is
  • ONE WORLD - ONE HEALTH
  • Hominum Animaliumque Saluti
  • Acknowledgements
  • Lorine B.Meijer-Jorna MDPath
  • Dr.Cornelia Rossi Broy
  • Dr Walter Winding
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