On the recordMarch 8, 2011
The American Farm Bureau Federation encourages your support of H.R. 525, the Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011. This legislation, scheduled for floor consideration today, would amend the Public Health Service Act by adding veterinary public health as one of the groups eligible for grants to train the public health workforce, and would make veterinarians studying public health eligible for loan repayment. The U.S. faces a critical shortage of veterinarians in public health practice areas such as food safety and security, bioterrorism and emergency preparedness, environmental health, regulatory medicine, diagnostic laboratory medicine, food systems veterinary medicine and biomedical research.
