Calvin W. Schwabe Award (施瓦伯獎)

The prestigious Calvin W. Schwabe Award has been bestowed upon Professor Dirk Pfeiffer. The award, granted by the Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (AVEPM), recognizes lifetime achievement in veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine. Calvin W. Schwabe is known as the father of veterinary epidemiology and One Health. In 1966, he established the world’s first department of epidemiology and preventive medicine in a veterinary school, which was at the University of California, Davis. While there, he set up the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine programme, which remains the longest-running veterinary epidemiology programme in the world.