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1. Population Health
Graduate Education in Animal Population Health and Epidemiolgy.
This option of the MPVM program offers courses and tailored independent study emphasizing concepts and methods necessary to develop and implement private- or public-sector programs that promote health and productivity of animal herds and populations. These techniques are applicable to a broad range of animal species, such as livestock, laboratory animals, aquaculture populations, etc.
Areas of concentration include risk assessment, information management and analysis, epidemiology, research methods, surveillance, biosecurity, disease investigation, and diagnostic strategies.
Required Elective Courses for this Option
2. Food safety
Graduate Training in Food Safety.
This MPVM option offers training in pre- and post-harvest food safety emphasizing the integration of animal health, public health and environmental health. Coursework in food safety (on-farm food safety, processing and distribution of safe food products), epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methods, and a laboratory- or field-based research project in food safety are required.
Required Elective Courses for this option
3. Public health and zoonoses
In this MPVM option, students build on a foundation of quantitative epidemiology with additional courses in public health and zoonoses. The program has close collaboration with the Veterinary Public Health unit of the California Department of Health Services.
In addition, the School of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Medicine have a cooperative Master of Public Health Program.
Required Elective Courses for this Option
4. Wildlife and disease ecology
This MPVM option emphasizes coursework and projects in wildlife health and is a multidisciplinary effort centered around the Wildlife Health Center (WHC) at the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. The WHC focuses on the health of free-ranging and captive terrestrial and aquatic wild animals and is the umbrella organization under which faculty, staff, students, and other partners come together to address the complex issues surrounding conservation in a changing world. The Center draws upon faculty expertise spanning a wide range of wildlife species and scientific disciplines and attracts students from around the world to participate in its research and educational programs.
Required Elective Courses for this Option
5. Ecosystem health
The University of California, Davis is committed to developing long-term solutions to the environmental challenges of declining ecosystem health and loss of sustainability. These challenges transcend regional airsheds, watersheds, state and national geopolitical boundaries,
and socioeconomic strata. This MPVM option is focused on developing broadly trained professionals in the field of ecosystem health and management that will develop the innovative solutions to these challenges through a program that stresses an interdisciplinary approach to problem definition, characterization, and resolution. The objective is to train professionals who will work to ensure that ecosystems are able to maintain integrity and achieve sustainability.
Students are exposed to a broad range of courses that provide a strong background in ecosystem science, epidemiology, ecotoxicology, and statistics. The program focuses on understanding the biological basis of ecosystem health by employing a comparative approach to defining the impact of stressors on individuals, populations, communities, and entire ecosystems. Training emphasizes decision-making using an integrated systems approach to the analysis of ecosystem impacts. Students will leave the program with a solid foundation in the principles ecosystem health and analysis and will be able to step into positions in ecosystem management or scientific support for ecosystem studies.
Required Elective Courses for this Option
6. International health (Peace Corps Masters International Program)
New Masters International Program.
The University of California, Davis and the United States Peace Corps offer a collaborative program in international veterinary medicine, emphasizing integration of human health and animal health, wellbeing and productivity in a global setting. The first year of the 3-year program is devoted to coursework in food animal population health, public health and food safety, and data management and analysis. This training is applied internationally during years 2 and 3, the Peace Corps training and in-country assignment period, and language skills are developed. A field-based project related to the Peace Corps assignment is completed. American citizenship and DVM or equivalent degree required for admission.
Required Elective Courses for this Option
7. Independent
With the approval of the Director of the MPVM Program, students with special interests may confect their own suite of elective courses, as an independent option in the MPVM program.
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