Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Jabalpur

▶ Brief History :

Department has been started in the year 1995 under the Veterinary Council of India Act, 1984 to impart education to the undergraduates students of Bachelor of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry. In order to generate human resource in Veterinary Public Health, the college has started post graduate study in 2012. Since inception, the department is continuously committed to educate students, field veterinarian and farmers regarding food borne and zoonotic diseases.

▶ Objectives of the Department :

To impart and strengthen the undergraduate and postgraduate study regarding Food Hygiene, Zoonoses andEnvironmental Hygiene.
To extend the technique / knowledge to field workers and farmers.

▶ Thrust Areas of Research:

To ensure food safety in animal origin food products.
Surveillance and monitoring of zoonotic diseases in and ạround Jabalpur.
To investigate sanitary and physico- chemical quality of water.

▶ Education :

Undergraduate :-

S.NO.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hrs.
1.	VPE	Unit 1: Veterinary public health and food safety	3+1
2.	VPE	Unit 2: Veterinary epidemiology
3.	VPE	Unit 3: Zoonotic diseases
4.	VPE	Unit 4: Environmental hygiene

Postgraduate :-

S.NO.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hrs.	Semester
1.	VPE 501	Concepts in Veterinary Public Health and One Health*	2+0	I
2.	VPE 502	Zoonoses - I*	2+1	I
3.	VPE 503	Zoonoses - I*	2+1	II
4.	VPE 504	Principles of Epidemiology*	2+1	I
5.	VPE 505	Hygiene and Safety of Foods of Animal and Aquatic Origin*	2+1	II
6.	VPE 506	Food-borne Infections and IntoXications	2+1	II
7.	VPE 507	Food Safety Standards, and Regulations	2+1	I
8.	VPE 508	Environmental Hygiene and Safety	2+1	I
9.	VPE 509	Applied Epidemiology	2+1	II
10.	VPE 510	Biosecurity, Bioterrorism and Disaster Management	2+0	II
11.	VPE 511	Laboratory Techniques in Veterinary Public Health*	0+3	II
12.	VPE 591	Master’s seminar*	0+1	I/II
13.	VPE 599	Master’s research	30	I/II

*Core Course

Ph.D :-

S.NO.	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hrs.	Semester
1.	CPE-RPE 600	Research and Publication Ethics #	2+0	I
2.	VPE 601	Advances in Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology*	2+1	I
3.	VPE 602	Emerging, Re-emerging Zoonoses and One Health*	2+1	I
4.	VPE 603	Advances in Food Safety and Quality Control of Foods of Animals / Aquatic origin*	2+1	II
5.	VPE 604	Biosecurity and Occupational Health Safety	2+1	I
6.	VPE 605	Recent Concepts in Epidemiology and Disease Forecasting	2+1	I
7.	VPE 606	Food plant sanitation	2+1	I
8.	VPE 606	Risk Analysis and Predictive Modelling	2+1	II
9.	VPE 607	Advances in Environmental Hygiene	2+1	II
10.	VPE 608	Herd Health Management and Disease Economics	2+1	I
11.	VPE 609	Epidemiology of Trans-boundary, Non-infectious and	2+1	II
12.	VPE 610	Ecology and Animal/ Human Health	2+0	I
13.	VPE 611	Diagnostic Approaches in Epidemiology	2+1	I
14.	VPE 612	Surveys, Surveillance and Data Management	2+1	II
15.	VPE 613	Research Methodology and Publication Ethics in VPE*	2+0	II
16.	VPE 690	Special Problem	0+1	II
17.	VPE 691	Doctoral Seminar-I*	0+1	I/II
18.	VPE 692	Doctoral Seminar-II*	0+1	I/II
19.	VPE 699	Doctoral Research	75	I/II

*Core Courses, #Compulsory course

▶ Research :

15M.V.Sc thesis and 01 Ph.D. thesis has been completed till date.
Research work is going on food borne and zoonotic pathogens.
Research work is carried on antimicrobial resistance.

▶ Salient Achievements :

Completed Research Projects :-

S.NO.	Project Title	PI/Co-PI	Funding Agency / Budget
1.	Bacteriological Examination of Animal origin food products to Ascertain food safety	Dr. Ranvijay Singh	MP Council for Science and Technology ,Bhopal /Rs. 6.88 Lac
2.	Star College Scheme/td>	Dr. Ranvijay Singh	Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi /Rs. 7.00 Lac

▶ Ongoing Research Projects :

S.NO.	Project Title	PI/Co-PI	Funding Agency / Budget
1.	Milk & Milk Products quality testing Laboratory to ensure safety of public health	Dr. Ranvijay Singh	Mandi Board /Rs. 215.00 Lac

▶ Conferences/ Webinar/ Training:

Online Mode - 21 days training on “Application of Novel Methods in Prevention and Control of Zoonoses and Ensuring food safety” dated on 18.02.2021 to 10.02.2021.
Offline Mode- Organized two Five days ASCAD training entitled as “Application of One Health on Prevention, Control & Diagnosis of Zoonotic Diseases”on05.02.2024 to 09.02.2024 and 19.02.2024 to 23.02.2024.

▶ Extension Education:

Time to time relevant extension and popular articles are published for awareness of field /pet/animal owners.
Public awareness programme conducted for zoonoses and important diseases like Rabies, Brucellosis, Milk and Meat borne diseases.

▶ Publications:

About100 research articles published from the department in different national and international journals.

▶ Facilities Available:

Laboratory

Food (milk & Meat) Hygiene cum Undergraduate laboratory.
Environmental cum Postgraduate laboratory.
Zoonoses laboratory.

Instruments

Laminar Flow

Biosafety cabinet class 2 A2 / Biosafety cabinet class 3

Fluorescent Microscope/Trinocular Microscope, Binocular Microscope

Thermal Cycler / PCR Machine, ELISA Reader

Gel Documentation & Ultra water Purification system

Shaker Incubator & BOD Incubator

▶ Services Offered :

Diagnostic facilities for isolation & identification of food borne pathogens and Zoonotic diseases viz. E.Coli. Salmonella, Clostridium , Vibrio, S.aureus, Brucella etc.
Antimicrobial / Antibiogram assay
Detection of adulteration in milk and milk product samples.
Testing facility for hygienic quality of water samples.
Testing facility for Mastitic milk Samples.

▶ Faculty :

S.NO.	Name	Designation	qualification
1.	Dr. Bhavana Gupta	Assistant Professor	Ph.D.
2.	Dr. Ranvijay Singh	Professor & Head and I/c Controller of Examination	Ph.D.
3.	Dr. Rashmi Kulesh	Assistant Professor	Ph.D.

Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Jabalpur

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Postgraduate :-

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