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CENTER OF EXCELLENCE

Center of Excellence for Zoonotic and Animal Disease Defense (ZADD) 

FAZD Center
Texas A&M University
200 Discovery Drive, Suite 144
College Station, TX  77843-2129
Tel:  979-845-2855
Email:   trbeckham@ag.tamu.edu
Website:  http://fazd.tamu.edu/

 

CEEZAD
Kansas State University
1800 Denison Ave.
Mosier Hall K224
Manhattan, KS  66506-5606
Tel:  785-532-2793
Email:  jricht@vet.k-state.edu
Website:  http://www.ceezad.org

 

 
The Center of Excellence for Zoonotic and Animal Disease Defense (ZADD) protects the nation’s agriculture and public health sectors against high-consequence foreign animal, emerging, and zoonotic disease threats.  The center meets this mission by performing basic and translational research; developing and deploying preventive measures and countermeasures; modeling how a disease spreads, and its economic effects; and training students and public health decision makers to detect and respond to an outbreak, quickly and effectively. 

 

ZADD research areas:

 
Biological Systems (e.g., countermeasures, pathogenesis, detection tools)
Information Analysis Systems (e.g., economic and epidemiologic modeling)
Education and Outreach Systems