Overseas Association

On this page you can find out about the Overseas Association and its relationship with the British Veterinary Association (BVA)

About

Run under the auspices of the BVA Overseas Group, the Overseas Association is an informally structured networking group of veterinary surgeons, students, nurses and others who have an interest in overseas veterinary-related activities.

As well as forming a core of expertise, members provide support and advice to others. Regular updates and notices are circulated to members by email.  We also produce an Overseas Newsletter.

Meetings and outcomes

We try to hold a meeting at least once a year, usually at BVA Congress and sometimes linking up with the annual World Association for Transport Animal Welfare and Studies (TAWS) workshop.

The overseas session at BVA Congress 2010 in Glasgow will focus on ‘Improving the livelihoods of farmers in resource-poor communities’.  We will hear how researchers from the UK and Tanzania are developing effective strategies for controlling foot-and-mouth disease in Africa and how the Scottish-based NGO, GALVmed, works to improve livelihoods in developing countries.

We produce presentations and reports

  • presentation from the Congress 2009 session entitled Working together to help deliver animal health services overseas where the speakers were Dr  S Abdul Rahman (CVA), Dr Christie Peacock (Farm Africa) and Stephen Blakeway (Donkey Sanctuary)
  • presentation from the Congress 2008 session entitled Human/Animal Interface – the veterinary role within international development
  • presentation from the Congress 2007 session entitled Vets in the Wider World
  • TAWS/Overseas Association seminar report from April 2007
  • we have also joined up with other organisations, for example, in 2005 we held a successful meeting with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC) on post conflict and disaster reconstruction - you can read a report of this meeting

Contact the Overseas Association

The BVA Overseas Group co-ordinates the Overseas Association’s communication.

If you are interested in contacting or joining this informal group contact Helena Cotton, helenac@bva.co.uk