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The Livestock Revolution, Sustainable Development, Zoonotic Disease
Conference Audio and Video - Hugh Mainzer
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Hugh Mainzer, MS, DVM, Dipl. ACVPM Centers for Disease Control
Audio of Dr. Mainzer's lecture (MP3 format; 29 minutes) Video of Dr. Mainzer's lecture (RealVideo format; 29 minutes) |
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Biography Dr. Hugh Mainzer received a Bachelor's degree at Brandeis University and a Master of Science degree in Veterinary Public health from Texas A&M University. His Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree was earned from Tufts University in Massachusetts. In January 2001, he joined CDC's National Center for Environmental Health in his current role as a senior preventive medicine officer and supervisory epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service with the rank of Captain. He is currently assigned to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the National Center for Environmental Health in its Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services. His main responsibility is to improve the delivery of preventive services to protect critical environmental systems related to food and water safety, indoor/outdoor air quality, waste management, and vector/animal control. He assists in designing and monitoring programs to train field environmental health specialists and public health directors. He has recently been designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Commander of a deployable Applied Public Health Team designed to augment and assist with the provision of essential public health services to communities impacted by natural disaster, act of terror or public health emergency. Captain Mainzer serves as chairman of the Board of Directors for the 7, 000 member Commissioned Officers Association of the US Public Health Service. Since 2001, Captain Mainzer has served as the CDC/ATSDR's liaison to the American Veterinary Medical Association and the National Association of State Public Health veterinarians. Dr Mainzer is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Population Health at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Community Medicine and Family Health at the Tufts University School of Medicine. He is also a member of CDC's Preventive medicine residency advisory committee. |
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Abstract The Role of Environmental Systems in Applied Preventive Medicine: Responsibilities and Opportunities for the Veterinary Public Health Practitioner Contemporary public health practitioners investigate the interactions between host physical and social suceptibilities, the agents causing disease and disability, and the environmental factors contributing to adverse health outcomes. In response to the emergence or re-emergence of health threats to global populations, veterinarians are demonstrating the proficiencies needed to implement effective disease prevention and health promotion interventions. This presentation will illustrate several processes that link simple population health concepts with the priorities of a complex public health infrastructure. |
