Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science (2005) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Role of Veterinary Research in Human Society
1 The Role of Veterinary Research in Human Society
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It follows that veterinary research is, at a fundamental level, a human health activity. The centrality of veterinary research and its critical role at the interface between human and animal health are often not understood and undervalued.
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Veterinary research transcends species boundaries and includes the study of spontaneously occurring and experimentally induced models of both human and animal disease and research at human-animal interfaces, such as food safety, wildlife and ecosystem health, zoonotic diseases, and public policy. By its nature, veterinary science is comparative and gives rise to the basic science disciplines of comparative anatomy, comparative physiology, comparative pathology, and so forth.
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Veterinary research has the potential to immensely impact the fields of comparative medicine, public health and food safety, and animal health; but its ability to reach its potential relies on adequate infrastructural, financial, and human resources. The National Research Council convened an ad hoc committee to assess the status and future of veterinary research in the United States on the request of the American Animal Hospital Association, the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Association of Federal Veterinarians, the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
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Advanced medical institutions included comparative medicine in their structure and used animal disease models to elucidate the basic nature of human disease. Rous, in 1910, was the first to discover a virus that caused cancer (sarcoma in chickens)
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Second, veterinarians were specializing; they formed the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, and subspecialties with expertise in fields related to public health and medical science. Third, animal models were being used to make major advances in basic research, and institutions of veterinary science had access to the newly developing federal funding mechanisms.
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in elk and deer in the western United States and Canada highlight the importance of research on wildlife and ecosystem health. The contributions of veterinary research to the control of animal disease threats to human health, to the health and production of food animals, to the health of companion animals, to the advancement of biomedical sciences, and to the conservation of wildlife were reviewed in the Pew report Future Directions of Veterinary Medicine (Pritchard 1989)
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An overall review of past and current veterinary research in public health and food safety, animal health, and comparative medicine and of projections of research directions could help to identify infrastructure and manpower needs, the adequacies and deficiencies in research effort, and a strategy for using the available resources effectively to meet societal needs. Past and future trends and gaps in topics considered, scientific expertise required, current funding levels and sources, and institutional capacity were identified on the basis of a review of published literature -- including the Pew report and the National Research Council reports cited earlier -- and other data.
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