Animal Health and Welfare

1. Book on evaluation of One Health initiatives: https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/book/10.3920/978-90-8686-875-9. One Health combines the disciplines of animal and human health and ecosystems. This is a handbook that provides an overview of concepts and processes as well as guidance on how to implement the One Health approach.
   
   
2. Lahrmann, H. P., Hansen, C. F., D’Eath, R., Busch, M. E., & Forkman, B. (2018). Tail posture predicts tail biting outbreaks at pen level in weaner pigs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 200, 29–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2017.12.006. This study shows that lowered tail postures in pigs can be utilized to predict tail biting outbreaks at pen level. 
   
   
3. Sandøe, P., Corr, S. A., Lund, T. B., & Forkman, B. (2019). Aggregating animal welfare indicators – Can it be done in a transparent and ethically robust way. Animal Welfare 28(1): 67-76. Serious challenges arise within the process of creating an index for animal welfare. In this study, we focus on the ethical aspects of this problem and discuss the different ways to proceed.

This section contributes knowledge, articles, and results within its core areas to the website Dyreetik.dk.

Dyreetik.dk is a web site run by the Faculty of Health at the University of Copenhagen. The person responsible for the site is Peter Sandøe, professor of animal ethics. 

An English version of  Dyreetik.dk is found at AnimalEthics.ku.dk. The aim of the site is to share insights and reflections regarding animal ethics and animal welfare. It contains academic papers and other academic publications which as far as possible are made available in an open access format. Furthermore it contains introductory texts aimed primarily at students, professionals and university teachers from veterinary and animal science and other branches of biology.

The section’s areas of expertise are

Bioethics:

• Veterinary ethics and science theory
• Science theory for students of the production animal sciences
• Responsible Conduct of Research (mandatory PhD course)

Ethology

• Ethology
• Forensic medicine and welfare evaluation
• Applied ethology

Veterinary epidemiology

We teach methods for investigating causes of the distribution of diseases, as well as methods and tools for combating diseases in populations. This includes the following courses:

• Basic statistics and epidemiology
• Epidemiology I: Planning a study
• Epidemiology II: Analyzing continuous, count and dichotomous data from observational studies
• Epidemiology III: Analysis of clustered data – with emphasis on veterinary- and animal science applications
• Diagnostic Test Evaluations
• Ad hoc courses

Interdisciplinary and applied areas

• Animals, humans and society
• Health and Welfare
• Equine nutrition and management
• Master of Veterinary Public Health: Risk Analysis of Animal Health and Food Safety
• Herd- and Societal Health
• Differentiation: Heart diseases
• Differentiation: Biomedicine
• Differentiation: Diseases in Family Animals
• Differentiation: Production animals
• Veterinary Forensic Medicine
• Master of Veterinary Public Health: Disease Outbreak Management
• Master of Veterinary Public Health: Disease Control and Dynamics - in a One Health Setting
• Master of Veterinary Public Health: Animal Health Economics