Dr. Jan Sargeant

 

Email: sargeanj@uoguelph.ca

Office: 103 - MacNabb House
Ext: 54045
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Profile

Areas of interest:

• Zoonotic disease prevention and control
• Food and water safety
• Role of veterinary medicine in public health
• Input of research to public health decision making

Education

DVM, MSc, PhD - University of Guelph

Research

• Systematic reviews in agri-food public health
• Policy research in microbial food safety
• Burden of gastrointestinal illness, perception of risk of gastrointestinal illness

Teaching

I contribute to teaching in undergraduate and graduate epidemiology and public health.

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Professional Experience & Honours

Selected Publications

• Sargeant JM, Amezcua MR, Rajic A, Waddell L. Pre-harvest interventions to reduce the shedding of E. coli O157 in the faeces of weaned domestic ruminants: A systematic review. In press, Zoonoses and Public Health.
• Sargeant JM, Majowicz SE, Snelgrove J. The burden of acute gastrointestinal illness in Ontario, Canada, 2005-2006. In press, Epidemiol Infect.
• Sargeant JM, Ramsingh B, Wilkins A, Travis RG, Gavrus D, Snelgrove JW. Constraints to microbial food safety policy: Opinions from stakeholder groups along the farm to fork continuum. Zoonoses and Public Health. 2007; 54: 177-184.
• Sargeant JM, Torrence ME, Rajic A, O’Connor AM, Williams J. The methodological soundness of review articles evaluating interventions to improve microbial food safety. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 2006; 3: 447-456.
• Sargeant JM, Shi X., Sanderson MW, Renter DG, Nagaraja TG. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of Escherichia coli O157 isolates from Kansas feedlots. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 2006: 3: 251-258.
• Sargeant JM, Rajic A, Read S, Ohlsson A. The process of systematic review and its application in agri-food public health. Prev. Vet. Med. 2006; 75: 141-151.
• Sargeant JM, Sanderson MW, Smith RA, Griffin DD. Associations between management, climate, and Escherichia coli O157 in the faeces of feedlot cattle in the Midestern USA. Prev. Vet. Med. 2004; 66; 175-206.
• Sargeant JM, Sanderson MW, Griffin DD, Smith RA. Factors associated with the presence of Escherichia coli O157 in feedlot cattle-water and feed in the Midwestern USA. Prev Vet Med. 2004; 66: 207-237.