The Southern African Society for Veterinary\nEpidemiology & Preventive Medicine hosted its 17th Annual SASVEPM Congress\nat the Coastlands Hotel in Umhlanga Kwazulu-Natal during 21-23 August 2019. We\nachieved record attendance this year with just over 300 delegates attending! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of our 2019 programme we also be\nhosted a pre-congress training workshop in partnership with the South African\nField Epidemiology Training Programme (SAFETP) and the University of Pretoria\nduring 19-20 August 2019. The course was designed to provide veterinarians and\npara-veterinarians with basic epidemiological skills and an inter-disciplinary\napproach to deal with complex animal health and public health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to our key note speaker, Dr\nSascha al Dahouk (a global expert on human brucellosis and an epidemiologist),\nas well as all our presenting authors, for contributing to the success of the\n2019 congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Congratulations to the winners of\nthe Willie Ungerer Memorial Prize for Epidemiology which was awarded to: Prof\nGeoff Fosgate (2018 winner) from the Faculty of Veterinary Science of\nOnderstepoort and Prof Cheryl McCrindle (2019 winner) from the School of Health\nSystems and Public Health of the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well done to this year\u2019s winner of the Animal\nHealth Technician Prize for outstanding work which was awarded to Odirele T.L.\nRamafoko for his work on Bovine Genital Campylobacteriosis and Trichomoniasis\nof Cattle in Mafikeng, North West Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the congress, four new members were elected to the executive committee and we welcome Dr Mohamed Sirdar, Dr Noluvuyo Magadla, Dr Sikhumbuzo Mbizeni and Dr Wonderful Shumba to the committee. Please look at the committee\u2019s page for a look at who is involved on the executive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proceedings can be downloaded from  her<\/a>e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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