Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Rewa

Brief History :

Department of Veterinary Public Health was initiated in the academic year 2007-2008.First undergraduate batch was taught in the academic year 2009-2010. First Post graduate student was admitted in the academic year 2019-2020.

Objectives of the Department :

To perpetuate the concept of Veterinary Public Health in undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Epidemiological investigation of pathogens of animal and public health significance.
Detection and characterization of pathogens of public health significance.
Development and standardization of rapid diagnostic test to detect pathogens of public health importance.
Address the veterinary public health issue through one health approach.
Awareness of general public for zoonotic diseases, environmental hygiene and food safety.

Thrust Areas of Research:

Food borne zoonotic disease.
Water borne zoonotic disease.
Detection of vector borne disease.
Antimicrobial resistance.
Food adulteration.
Food safety.
Environmental hygiene and safety.

Education :

Undergraduate :-

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

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 :

NA

Salient Achievements : Completed Research Projects :-

NA

Ongoing Research Projects :

MPCST, Bhopal sponsored research project on “Epidemiological investigation of Brucellosis in human and animal population of Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh”

Extension Education:

A leaflets for dissemination of information for awareness regarding.

Important zoonotic diseases like brucellosis, TB & JD, Rabies,
Vaccination schedule and
Life cycle of Tick and transmission of vector borne diseases.
A guide for scientific animal husbandry practices.
Extension education is done in camps conducted for samples collection under the research project.

Publications:

Ranade, A., Singh, P.K., Shrivastav, N., Koley, S. and Chatur, Y.A. (2020). Physio-chemical properties of helf stable meat pickle from Kadaknath. Hariyana Vet. 59(1): 124-128.
Tewari, A., Chatur, Y., Rahangdale, M. and Goswami, M. (2018) Quality analysis of raw milk procured from Rewa city, Madhya Pradesh. Journal of Veterinary Public Health, 15(2),: 83-87.
Kurmi, B., Murugkar H.V., Kumar M., Tosh, C., Nagarajan, S., Verma, A., Tripathi, S. and Singh, V.P. (2020). Prevalence of H9N2 Avian Influenza Virus in Live Bird Markets of Eastern Madhya Pradesh. Journal of Animal Research. 10 (6):1077-1083.

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