Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses
CPHAZ Symposium set for June 6th, 2013
Register Now! Don't miss out!
The Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses invites you to attend
their biennial public health symposium on Thursday, June 6th, 2013 at
the Delta Hotel in Guelph, 8:30 - 4:30. The event will feature many key participants
from academia, provincial, federal and regional government groups whose
mandate involve the public health aspects of human, animal and/or
environmental health. Registration is now open, please click here to download the registration form. To register, download the file, fill in, save and return the file in an email to cphaz@uoguelph.ca. You will receive an email confirming your registration. All are welcome to attend.
Some of our key speakers
this year will include Dr. Jay Keystone, an expert in tropical and infectious disease from the University of Toronto, and Dr. Chelsea Himsworth from the University of British Columbia to discuss the Vancouver Rat Projet, do urban rats pose a health risk?
This year
at the symposium, CPHAZ will be hosting interactive poster sessions for
graduate students. These will involve a 3 minute presentation on the
poster topic. Taking part in the interactive sessions will make the
presenter eligible for the graduate student presentation awards. To register a graduate student poster and sign up for the interactive sessions, please click here to download your poster registration form. Please submit along with your event registration form. Please
encourage graduate students to submit a poster! This is a wonderful networking opportunity!
All registrations forms can be emailed to cphaz@uoguelph.ca once completed. If you have any issues downloading or returning the form, please email or call 519-824-4120, extension 54076.
Please distribute to anyone who might be
interested.
Program and more information on speakers will be up soon!
The Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) has a tradition of excellence in research and education in public health at the human-animal-environmental interface. Researchers at OVC enjoy close collaborations in public health research and teaching with other faculty at the University of Guelph, as well as colleagues from other universities and animal health and public health organizations.
The Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ) was established in 2006, to coordinate existing public health research and promote new collaborative research activities designed to enhance our capacity to solve problems and implement solutions in public health at the human-animal-environmental interface and to expand the pool of educated personnel able to address the public health needs of the population.
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