Sustainable Food: Optimizing Livestock Health Management

This module introduces the course, helps students become familiar with the learning environment, and provides technical skills required for the course.

This module covers the principles of livestock system design, management of genetics, nutrition, and the environment, and their impact on animal growth, development, and production.

This module explores the link between nutrition and health, examining the science behind nutritional intake, uptake, and utilization, and how disease can interfere with these processes.

This module introduces the concept of farms as ecosystems, explaining the beneficial impact of managing microbes alongside animals to enhance host defense, animal health, and production efficiency.

This module examines the impact of infectious disease on animal well-being and production system efficiency, considering disease as a war between infectious agents and their hosts at individual and population levels.

This module discusses the role of caregivers in managing, preventing, and controlling infectious disease in livestock-based production systems, and how understanding prey-predator relationships can be used in management strategies.

This module explores the impact of infectious disease on food safety and security at various levels, and discusses how outbreaks of important infectious diseases are tracked and investigated.