Clerk session vote number: 164
Description: Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011
Bill summary: (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise a public health workforce grant program designed to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce to include a health professions school or program of veterinary public health. Defines "veterinary public health" to include veterinarians engaged in one or more of the
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following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness; emerging and reemerging infection diseases; environmental health; ecosystem health pre- and post-harvest food protection; regulatory medicine; diagnostic laboratory medicine; veterinary pathology; biomedical research; the practice of food animal medicine in rural areas; and government practice.
Expands the public health workforce loan repayment program to make such veterinarians eligible for the program.
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Bill titles: To amend the Public Health Service Act to enhance and increase the number of veterinarians trained in veterinary public health.
Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov