Mission Statement

To protect public health by minimizing animal to human, environmental, and food borne infectious disease threats through innovative interdisciplinary research.

This will be achieved through a program of research excellence that is broad in scope encompassing the full range of relevant sciences from the laboratory bench to the community. We embrace the interdisciplinary nature of the program recognizing that breakthroughs will likely emerge at the interface of scientific disciplines. Accordingly, this program draws strength from both the diversity of academic programs that underlie it, as well as a unifying focus and direction related to public health preparedness and infectious diseases.

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PHPID Faculty Lunch - Thursday, November 6, 2008

This event will be a full membership meeting and networking event highlighting recently-hired PHPID faculty. Meeting will be held in Room 115 of the Biomedical Research Tower (BRT), 460 West 12th Avenue from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at phpid@osu.edu by October 31, 2008.

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PHPID Research Goals:

• Translate scientific discoveries into clinical applications e.g. new diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines for infectious diseases;
• Detect the presence of emerging infectious diseases within communities, the underlying mode of transmission, and strategies for prevention, control and treatment;
• Prevent human infection from antibiotic resistant zoonotic (animal to human) micro-organisms through an understanding of livestock immune systems -- particularly the gastrointestinal
  tract -- with an aim to reduce use of antibiotics in animals
• Address food safety issues during food production, processing, transport, storage, retail, or consumer use, with an aim to decrease infections and associated fatalities caused by
  food-borne illness; and
• Train professionals in veterinary public health and infectious diseases public health preparedness.