New advisor for NZ Equine Health Association

Dr Patricia Pearce has been appointed to the seat of Executive Advisor for the NZ Equine Health Association (NZEHA).

Pearce volition locomote on behalf the equine community as well as industries to maximise the wellness protection as well as welfare of all horses inward New Zealand.

She was, until recently, Specialist Advisor for Event Mitigation at the Ministry for Agriculture as well as Forestry (now Ministry for Primary Industries) inward Wellington and, earlier that, Assistant Director of Event as well as Emergency Response for the Food Safety Authority for v years. Her roles stimulate got equally good included Programme Manager Compliance for the MAF Biosecurity Authority; National Assessor for the MAF Food Assurance Authority; as well as Compliance as well as Investigation Group Veterinary Officer for MAF inward Wanganui.

She is a Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) from Massey University, a Member of the Animal Welfare Chapter of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists (MACVSc), as well as has a Masters inward Strategic Studies alongside Merit (MSS) from Victoria University.

Pearce received the Special Achievement Award from Ministers of Agriculture as well as Conservation for contribution to the welfare of Kaimanawa horses inward 1997 as well as has been widely published including Keeping Exotic Horse Diseases out of New Zealand, co-authored alongside Dr Brian Goulden, Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA) inward New Zealand alongside Wayne Reid, as well as Foreign Disease Threats to New Zealand Horses, proceedings from the 2000 Bomac Lecture Series for the New Zealand Equine Research Foundation.

NZEHA Chairman Dr Ivan Bridge said Dr Pearce would stand upwardly for the NZEHA, liaise alongside the Ministry for Primary Industries as well as stakeholders inside the equine sectors, draft as well as implement policies,  and render critical analysis as well as reporting to the Committee of the NZEHA.

“The New Zealand Equine population is to a greater extent than subject upon biosecurity than whatever other developed country.  The country’s liberty from pest as well as diseases is critical for top dog productivity as well as gratis merchandise as well as enjoyment of the recreational as well as cultural aspects of equestrianism,” Bridge said.

“Dr Pearce’s extensive agreement of the context of appropriate edge controls, illness investigation, as well as reply as well as welfare legislative processes, equally they touching the equine community, volition live on critical for the protection of equine biosecurity equally increasing numbers of tourists locomote inward as well as to a greater extent than goods are imported from a greater number of countries.”

The NZEHA was constituted inward 1997, mandated yesteryear Government, to render Government alongside a unmarried equine illustration torso to consult alongside on issues such equally equine diseases, wellness as well as welfare. The NZEHA has v goals:

1. Ensure readiness as well as reply procedures for equine exotic illness emergencies
2. Establish optimal communication as well as activity across equine sectors & authorities for illness response
3. Eradicate equine viral arteritis inward NZ
4. Facilitate the prophylactic entry as well as larn out of horses in/out of NZ – preclude equine illness incursions
5. Develop & sponsor a code of welfare for horses

 

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