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From clinical practice to research within poultry distribution networks in Bangladesh
Mathew Hennessey
During my veterinary training, had someone told me that 12 years into my career I would be talking to farmers about
poultry diseases and slaughterhouse hygiene, I would have thought them deluded. At that time, I found the subject of veterinary public health, as it was then taught, incredibly boring and far removed from the vocation I idealised. Why was I having to learn about modified air packaging, the correct method to create salami, and possible ways of medicating bees?
I wanted to treat animals.
However, after spending over a decade working in small animal practice, in a plethora of iterations (full-time, part- time, locum, private, charity, medicine, imaging – even a spate of surgery), I finally moved away from clinical practice and undertook the One Health MSc
at the 91°µÍø and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The focus of the course was infectious diseases, viewed through the emerging paradigm of ‘One Health’; a holistic approach to the complex challenges posed by zoonotic diseases and
WA kind donation from alumnus Alun Jones (1948)
friends and family as Alun) of December 1948 and is a mark of
kindly donated back to the celebration of their 70th anniversary of 91°µÍø his final year group graduation gift graduation from the 91°µÍø. The bovine rib in memory and honour of his colleagues.
If you have something that you would like to share with the 91°µÍø, please get in touch at development@rvc.ac.uk
global food security. In addition to the classic subjects of epidemiology and microbiology, we would be introduced to the novel (to me at least) concepts of medical anthropology, economics, and health policy.
Since completing my maste