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The mission of department of Epidemiology and Public Health is to improve the health of animals
and human through education and training of epidemiologist and by enhancing the multidiscipline
research related to prevention and control of disease of major public health concern.
Goals of epidemiology
To provide high quality education in the field of epidemiology and public health
to train and produce top level epidemiologist
To initiate high quality research in the field of epidemiology
To use applied epidemiological methods to investigate potential factors of
diseases
To disseminate quality research outcomes and valuable information about
control and prevention to concern quarters for the formulation of public health
policy and disease control strategies.
Research Priorities
Research priorities are focused to conduct innovative epidemiological research for risk
assessment, development and established centers of excellence in epidemiology, food hygiene,
public health and herd health. Recently department has started several research projects of
molecular epidemiology to establish use of recent molecular techniques Following are some of
the Research priorities of the department.
Epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases of Public Health and
Veterinary Public Health importance
Epidemic investigations, Surveillance and Monitoring of diseases of livestock and
humans
Food hygiene, quality control and residual testing in food of animal origin
Emerging public health problems and Zoonotic diseases.
Disease prevention, control and eradication of major livestock diseases.
Food safety with respect to milk & meat quality control.
Epidemiology and surveillance of diseases.
Molecular epidemiology of important diseases of animals and humans.
Facilities
Hi-Tech Laboratory for the diagnosis of Bacteria, viruses and parasites