Conference Announcement: Advancing Global Health: Facing Disease Issues at the Wildlife, Human, and Livestock Interface

This should be a good meeting for professionals involved in wildlife disease issues (at least I hope so as I'm helping organize it!)

Damien

Advancing Global Health: Facing Disease Issues at the Wildlife, Human, and Livestock Interface

The 55th Annual Meeting of the Wildlife Disease Association in conjunction with the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians will be held August 6-10, 2006 on the main campus of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, USA.

With news headlines that make avian influenza, SARS, Ebola, and West Nile virus household words, it is apparent that the health of wildlife is inextricably linked to that of people and domestic animals. Diseases that cross the wildlife, human and livestock interface have enormous health, economic, and social ramifications. Consequently, there is a great need to improve collaboration and communication among wildlife, livestock and human health practitioners. The Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) and the American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians (AAWV) invite members from a variety of human and animal health disciplines to attend a conference entitled "Advancing Global Health: Facing Disease Issues at the Wildlife, Human, and Livestock Interface". This meeting will bring together animal and human health practitioners in one forum to discuss these increasingly challenging issues.

Who should attend and/or submit abstracts?

Ecologists, veterinarians, medical practitioners, biologists, researchers ... Any professional with an interest in animal and human health.

The University of Connecticut is located in a rural setting midway between the major metropolitan areas of Boston and New York City. Meeting participants will enjoy the peaceful beauty of this rolling-hills campus setting with all the advantages of New England's top ranked public university. As the host site of the 2006 Conference, the University is proud to showcase the results of "UCONN 2000", an unprecedented 10-year, $1 billion renovation and construction program to rebuild, renew, and enhance the University of Connecticut and its facilities.

For more information, please visit the conference website at:

http://www.conferences.uconn.edu/wildlife/ or email Damien Joly at wda.2006@gmail.com