Course on “Global Animal Health, Food Safety, and International Trade” begins August 25
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This course will provide students with an overview of rapidly changing global animal health patterns, food safety, and subsequent modifications in world trade. The interrelationship of animal agriculture with food industries, national infrastructure, disease diagnostics, animal and human pandemics, political systems, and global trade will be investigated during the semester.
Topics Covered (subject to change)
- Shaping of livestock health policy and trade
- Food safety and the zoonotic pandemic of emerging infections
- One Health and global food policy
- Supply chain issues and animal trade
- Risk-based trade decisions with open borders
- Climate change and animal disease
- International livestock health standards and standard setting organizations: WOAH, USDA, WTO, WHO, FAO, Codex
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreements
- Women’s role in livestock health policy and agricultural trade
- Animal welfare and global trade policies
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in animals and humans
- Meat analogues and cell-cultured meat products
- Global pet food challenges
About the Professor
Dr. Haskell received his DVM, MPVM and PhD, all from the University of California, Davis, received a MS degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is currently completing a postgraduate diploma in Global Health Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was in large animal practice for 17 years prior to entering academia.
He has written numerous scientific publications and was the primary editor of the industry standard first edition textbook "Five Minute Veterinary Consult: Ruminant." He has received several awards including the California Veterinary Medical Association Practitioner Fellowship Award in Clinical Pathology in 2010, and in the 2011-2012 academic year he was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis.
Dr. Haskell has worked with a wide variety of global client engagements, covering organizational development, personal engagement, leadership development, management skills, and cooperative development. His international experience includes working with programs and consultancies in 29 countries spanning over 30 years.
Dr. Haskell has many interests that include global veterinary medicine, development and implementation of distance education programs, food safety and security, global water quality issues, global sustainable agriculture systems development, and pre- and post-harvest food safety.
While in education, Dr. Haskell was formerly the Director and a Professor at the Veterinary Technology Program at Yuba College in California. Prior to this position, Dr. Haskell had taught and done livestock disease research at the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, University of Illinois, and University of California. He has worked extensively with international development projects in India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mali, Guinea, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Moldova, Ukraine, Romania, Guatemala, Mexico, Guyana, and Haiti.
Scott R.R. Haskell teaches Global Animal Health, Food Safety, and International Trade (FSC 817) and The Law of the Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule (FSC 852).
Schedule
Course begins August 25 and ends December 12, 2025. This course is offered each fall semester.
Details
Registration instructions and tuition rates depend on your enrollment status.
Click here for details if you are interested in taking this course through the MS in Food Regulatory Affairs.
Click here if you wish to enroll for a single course, or wish to work towards a certificate in international or United States food law.
Click here if you wish to take the course for "info only" and not apply them towards a future certificate or degree.
Help
Please contact Mary Gebbia at iflr@msu.edu with questions about our programs or for help with enrollment.
