This department was created in 2000 and reorganized as per VCI guidelines. The mandate of the Department of Veterinary Public Health is teaching, research and extension in the field of zoonoses, environmental hygiene, food hygiene, food safety and quality control. The department is also working on fungal, bacterial and parasitic zoonoses and has conducted studies on patterns of emerging zoonoses, human brucellosis, cysticercosis, sarcocystosis, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, aeromonas infection etc. that are posing major human health hazards in the region.
The department has well established dermatophyte diagnosis laboratory both for human and animals and also the facilities for diagnosis of common bacterial zoonotic diseases.
The research carried out in the department is disseminated to users and farmers as a part of extension activity and recommendations made have yielded valuable results in the control of zoonotic diseases and betterment of human health.
