VETERINARY COLLEGE AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THENI

DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

The Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology was startedduring the year 2020as a constituent of Veterinary College and Research Institute, Veerapandi, Theni District, with an aim to offer Under Graduate courses in B.V.Sc. and A.H. Apart from undergraduate teaching, the department involves in research and public health awareness activities on zoonotic and infectious diseases of livestock, poultry, pet animals and humans along with disease investigation and clinical samples analysis.

Objectives

To offer value added UG education in the discipline of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology
To prioritize strategies and impart skills to undertake epidemiological investigations, surveillance and monitoring on zoonotic diseases.
To device plans for control and eradication programmes, for economically important and zoonotic diseases of major public health importance.
To offer an effective, outreach-enhanced veterinary public health service.

Education

Undergraduate courses offered as per MSVE 2016 VPE (3+1) credit hours

Unit I- Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety
Unit II- Veterinary Epidemiology
Unit III- Zoonotic Diseases
Unit IV- Environmental Hygiene

LABORATORY FACILITIES

Milk & Meat Hygiene laboratory:Assessment of microbial quality of milk, meat, egg, milk products, meat products and environmental samples
Environmental Hygiene laboratory:Assessment of water quality viz. physical, metallic and non-metallic impurities and microbial quality.
Zoonoses laboratory:Molecular detection of zoonotic pathogens.
Epidemiology laboratory:Data processing unit for surveillance, monitoring and forecasting of zoonotic and infectious diseases.

EQUIPMENTS

Water Analysis system
Spectrophotometer
Microplate or ELISAreader
Colonycounters
Tissuehomogenizer
SampleBag Mixer
Airsampler
Biosafetycabinetlevel II
Atomicabsorptionspectrophotometry
Highperformance liquidchromatography
Somaticcellcounter
Gaschromatography unit
Lovibond Apparatus
Data programming and processing unit

Faculty

Dr. R. Rishikesavan, Associate Professor and Head
Dr. R. Mageswary, Assistant Professor
Dr. M. Sivakumar, Assistant Professor

The Associate Professor and Head,
Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology,
Veterinary College and Research Institute,
Veerapandi, Theni – 625 534.
Phone: +91-04546-235400
E-mail: vph-vcri-thn@tanuvas.org.in