500²ÊÆ±Íø

Building the Center for Global Veterinary Leadership

  • SDG1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • SDG2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • SDG3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • SDG4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • SDG15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
  • SDG17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Kazuyuki Uchida
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences Head of Department
Veterinarians bear heavy social responsibilities as the specialists of food safety and animal infectious diseases. Japan is located in Asia, a region where animal infectious diseases are widely spread. About 20% of livestock products is lost worldwide due to such diseases. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen the system of prevention against exotic infectious diseases and to contribute to curbing animal diseases in Asia, in order to secure stable supply of livestock products and ensure sustainable agriculture. For this purpose, it is imperative to cultivate veterinary leaders in the field of public services with global competencies including the expertise on infectious diseases control worldwide. As part of this project, we will build the Center for Global Veterinary Leaders at the University. This center should be a hub facility to connect the university¡¯s veterinary schools with domestic and international veterinary institutions as well as veterinary schools in Asian countries through the information communication technology (ICT) as well as personnel exchanges. The students of this project will have practical training programs on the prevention of animal infectious diseases through exchange programs and internships at affiliated institutions and veterinary schools. We will also provide education using digitized materials prepared with the resources of our partner institutions. By delivering these ICT-based educational materials to the world, the center will contribute to the development of global veterinary leaders in Asian countries.
Training at livestock farms in Thailand
Use of Information Communication Technology in the Veterinary Education at the University of Tokyo

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Research collaborators

- 2012-2017: Establishment of next-generation educational systems of veterinary school in global era (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Program for Promoting Inter-University Collaborate Education)
- 2014-2017: Veterinary Public Health Camp (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
- 2014-2018: Inter-University Exchange Project(Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology , Collaboration on veterinary education between Japan and Thailand:For the sound development of Asia)
- 2014-2023: Top Global University Project(Constructing a Global Campus Model at 500²ÊÆ±Íø)
- Center for Research and Development of Higher Education, 500²ÊÆ±Íø
- 2018-2021:OIE(World Organization for Animal Health)Asia-Pacific region secretariat[applied for Veterinary Education Twinning Projects ]
- 2021-2030: Laboratory of OSG Veterinary Science for Global Disease Management
- Asian Association of Veterinary Schools (AAVS)

Related publications

Haga, T: Asian Association of veterinary schools (AAVS): contribution challenges and the way forward. In “Veterinary Education ” 21st Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations (FAVA) Congress 2022. Fukuoka, Japan, November 13, 2022.

Horimoto, T: Veterinary education in 500²ÊÆ±Íø in the COVID-19 situation. In “AAVS Virtual Meeting on Veterinary Education in the time of COVID-19”, Asian Association of veterinary schools (AAVS). January 26, 2021

Haga T: Protecting Livestock and the Food Supply: Aiming to Minimize Damage Caused by Transboundary Animal Diseases, Agriculture and Horticulture. Vol. 95(1), pp33-38, 2020 (Yokendo) (In Japanese) http://www.ajass.jp/Sympo/2019/7haga-e.pdf

Haga T: Impact of Animal Infectious Diseases and One Health. Bulletin of the Agricultural Academy of Japan, Vol 36, pp27-32, 2021 (In Japanese) http://www.academy-nougaku.jp/pdf/bullettin036/bullettin036_07_haga.pdf

Haga T: Current Situation and Challenging of Veterinary Education in Japan. Bulletin de la Societe Franco-Japonaise des Sciences Veterinaries, Vol 30 (2018), 1-2, p18, Mars 2019

Haga T: Enzootic Bovine Leukosis: how to prevent the disease and control the spread of BLV infection. In 1st International Conference Postgraduate School Universitas Airlangga: "Implementation of Climate Change Agreement to Meet Sustainable Development Goals" (ICPSUAS 2017) Surabaya, Indonesia, DOI:10.2991/icpsuas-17.2018.3 January 2018

Nakayama H: An Overview of the Innovation of Veterinary Education and the Education of One Health in Japan. In “2nd WVA-WMA Global Conference on One Health”. Kitakyushu, Japan, November 11, 2016

Haga T and Nakayama H: "Veterinary Education in Japan" The 15th Asian Association of Veterinary Schools (AAVS) Congress and Joint Workshop of Asian Society of Conservation Medicine. The Education of Veterinary Medicine in Universities of Asia and Its Approach to One Health. Taiwan, October 2016

Haga T and Nakayama H: Veterinary Education in Asia, the Far East and Oceania. In 4th OIE Global Conference on Veterinary Education: Implementing OIE guidelines to ensure the excellence of the veterinary profession “Learning today preserving our future”. Bangkok, Thailand, June 2016

Haga T et al. "Use of Information Communication Technology in the Veterinary Education Project by Four Universities in the Tokyo Area (Vet4u) - Japan" 4th OIE Global Conference on Veterinary Education. Bangkok, Thailand, June 2016,

Contact

  • Takeshi Haga
  • Email: ahaga[at]g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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