Master of Science in Conservation Medicine Program

The MS in Conservation Medicine program, currently under development, is designed to prepare students from diverse backgrounds for a career in conservation medicine. This program is anticipated to start in the fall of 2010. Prospective students will be expected to have first achieved a certain level of experience or expertise acquired through traditional academic tracks, in most cases at the master’s level or above. The program will consist of 12 months of seminar, laboratory and independent team project based activities culminating in a case study. A thesis will not be required. Upon completion of the degree requirements, graduates will receive a Master’s of Science in Conservation Medicine from the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. If funding is available, select students may have the option of continuing with a research fellowship for another 12 months conducted under the mentorship of a program faculty member.

More information on this program will be posted shortly. To learn more about the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine, please visit the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine website.

Conservation Medicine

Conservation medicine focuses on health relationships occurring at the interface of humans, animals and the environment and seeks to develop and apply health management practices, policies and programs that sustain biodiversity and protect the ecosystems essential to animal and human health. Conservation Medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field that incorporates the tools and perspectives of many different scientific and medical professions in order to solve complex global health problems such as controlling disease in wildlife populations to help protect human and animal health and preserve species biodiversity.