Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary Homeland Security

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Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary
Homeland Security

• Dr. Sandy Amass, Purdue University
• Dr. Marianne Ash, Indiana State Board of Animal
  Health

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Our Team
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Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary
Homeland Security

• Web based, graduate level, distance learning
  program for individuals involved in animal
  emergency response

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Required (4.5 Credits)

• Introduction to Veterinary Homeland Security
• High Consequence Disease Review Zoonotic
• Defining the Threat
• Understanding the Response
• Biosecurity for Veterinary Responders
• The Veterinarian's Role in Community Planning

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Electives (4.5 Credits)

• High Consequence Disease Review
• Multiple Species
• Bovine
• Equine
• Swine
• Minor Species
• Avian

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Electives (4.5 Credits)

• Euthanasia and Carcass Management
• Food Borne Illnesses
• GIS Applications
• Managing an Emergency
• Crime Scene Management
• Radiological Events

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Collaborative Effort

• Dr. Ron DeHaven, USDA/APHIS
• Lt Colonel Donald Noah, Department of Defense
• Dr. William White, FADDL, Plum Island.
• Dr. Marc Mattix, MT Veterinary Diagnostic
  Laboratory, US Army Vet Corps.
• Dr. Don Otto, USDA/APHIS
• Dr. Peter Fernandez, USDA/APHIS
• Dr. Alfonso Torres, Cornell University's College
  of Veterinary Medicine

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Student Professions
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Government Agencies

• USDA/FSIS
• USDA/APHIS
• CDC
• US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Public Health Veterinarians
• State Board of Animal Health
• Agri-Food Veterinary Authority of Singapore

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VCS 640 Introduction to Veterinary Homeland
Security

• -Food Production
• -Hurricane Katrina
• -Bioterrorism
• -Business Continuity
• -High Consequence Dis.
• -Zoonotic Diseases
• -Foodborne diseases
• -The Response
• -Community Planning
• -Chemical Events
• -Radiological Events
• -Outbreak investigation
• -GIS applications
• -Biosecurity

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VCS 653 Veterinarians Role in Community Planning

• -Emergency/Disaster Planning
• -Completing an Emergency
• and Disaster Plan
• -Resource Management
• -Animal Health Planning
• -Effective Communication
• -Animal Health Organizations
• -Evaluating Plans
• -Updating Plans
• -Lessons Learned

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VCS 657 Crime Scene Management

• -Crime Scene Investigation
• -Initial Response
• -Prioritization of Efforts
• -Evidence Handling
• -Documentation
• -Equipment
• -Fire Investigations
• -Digital Crime Scenes
• -Interview/Interrogation
• -Explosions/Bombings
• -Methamphetamine
• -Recording the
• Investigation

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VCS 648 Defining the Threat

• -Bio/Agro Terrorist Threat
• -The Post 9/11 Threat
• -Crop Biosecurity
• -Activists
• -Employee Screening
• -Hurricane Katrina

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VCS 647 Zoonotic Diseases

• -Rift Valley Fever
• -Rabies
• -BSE
• -Equine Encephalitides
• -Nipah Virus Outbreak
• -Monkeypox
• -Anthrax
• -Baylisascaris
• -Staphylococcal Infection
• -Lyme Disease
• -Plague
• -Hantavirus
• -West Nile Virus
• -SARS
• -Leptospirosis
• -LCMV

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Summer 2007/Fall 2008

• VCS 649 Understanding the Response
• VCS 644 High Consequence Diseases Swine

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www.biosecuritycenter.org