No institution currently synthesizes what is known about animals in society across disciplines, sectors, and geographies. Animal Affairs Hub is documenting that gap — and building the function to close it, one output at a time.
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Go to the portalEvidence on animal health, welfare, governance, and economics exists across veterinary science, public health, economics, law, ethics, and social science — but it doesn't connect. Decisions get made in the absence of that connection.
Animal Affairs Hub does not take sides on contested questions. A researcher working in conventional livestock systems and a researcher working in animal law sit at the same table here, because the evidence connecting their fields is what's missing. Hosted at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and convened by Dr. Guillaume Lhermie, the hub draws its scientific grounding from that institutional home while its cross-disciplinary mandate keeps its network international by design.
Canada's new defence industrial strategy omits food entirely, leaving the agrifood sector exposed and unprotected.
A GBADs publication on the economic dimensions of sustaining livestock production with minimal antimicrobial use.
A scoping review of 593 articles across 91 countries, building a typology of socio-economic drivers of disease control.
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