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Global Health

Annable Scholar Avnee Mistry

Mar 10, 2020

The World’s Future is in this Annable Scholar’s Hands

Avnee Mistry, Class of 2022, is focused on issues such as public health, disease control and the safety of the global food supply. 
Snow day

Feb 27, 2020

News and Updates, February 2020

The latest student news during a busy (and snowy!) month on campus. 
Antimicrobial resistance development in bacteria — like E. coli, (pictured above), can have devastating effects on human health.

Feb 19, 2020

CVM Named WHO Collaborating Center to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

The new center will aid the World Health Organization in its efforts to fight foodborne antimicrobial resistance worldwide. 
Beautiful dog rhodesian ridgeback hound outdoors on a forest background

Jan 29, 2020

News and Updates, January 2020

The latest faculty, research and student news during a busy month on campus. 
Sea turtle receiving eye exam

Nov 24, 2019

News and Updates, july 2019

Faculty and Staff University Housekeeping employee Benita Womack, who has worked at the CVM for 23 years, strives for perfection in all she does. http://ow.ly/SUFv50xbfPZ International partnerships strengthen the CVM’s global health program and help “build a better, healthier society,” says Sid Thakur. http://ow.ly/5i8K50xaZ4k 30 years ago, the CVM changed the way zoological medicine was… 
Adult and young white rhinoceros at a private farm in South Africa

Nov 11, 2019

Filling in the Puzzle of Rhino Survival

Groundbreaking anatomical research on the rhinoceros from CVM faculty and students is contributing to the survival of the critically threatened species. 
Carved pumpkin in front of barn.

Oct 30, 2019

News and Updates, October 2019

Faculty and Staff Elizabeth Lucas receives a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant for a study on why women experience more fear-based psychiatric conditions than men. ow.ly/THEK50wVosS Lauren Schnabel named co-associate director of the Functional Tissue Engineering Program at the Comparative Medicine Institute. ow.ly/V8YL50wTlfL Vet techs are key to helping underserved rural areas,… 
Hannah Sather visits a poultry market in Ethiopia as part of her global health certificate summer research project.

Oct 16, 2019

Summers Spent on the Frontlines of Global Health

Five new research projects from NC State College of Veterinary Medicine students address some of today’s most pressing global health challenges. They also provide substantive hope for a healthier tomorrow. The international research, a requirement to earn a CVM certificate in global health, focuses on topics as varied as tuberculosis transmission in South Africa and a… 
abstract photo of chemical formula overlaying researcher

Aug 20, 2019

Thakur Launches International Group to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

As bacteria worldwide continue to develop resistance to life-saving drugs, NC State College of Veterinary Medicine researchers are joining a new group of international scientists dedicated to finding new ways to fight back.  The global partnership, co-led by Sid Thakur, director of global health at the CVM and NC State, is a collaboration between faculty members at… 
Student in lab coat in laboratory

Jul 16, 2019

A New Discovery, An Unforgettable Research Experience

Valerie Nelson was just looking to see what it was like to work in a research lab. What she found will impact lives around the world. While taking part in the Veterinary Scholars Program last summer at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, Nelson made an unexpected discovery. She had never worked in a research…