The Department of Health Management will be interviewing 3 candidates for the tenure-track faculty position in Aquatic Epidemiology. As part of the interview process, each candidate has been asked to present two brief seminars: one suitable for DVM/graduate students and the other presentation of their research.

Dr. Beibei Jia holds the degrees: Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, China; Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, China Academy of Agriculture Science; Master of Veterinary Public Health, Germany Freie Universität Berlin – Thailand Chiang Mai University; and PhD in Veterinary Epidemiology, University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). She has completed several postdoctoral terms at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) (2016-2017,2018 -2020) and the School of Mathematics and Computational Sciences (SMCS) in UPEI (2020-2021). She was a sessional instructor teaching Statistical Learning and Modeling at SMCS in Winter 2021.  

Since 2016, her research has focused on production diseases of farmed finfish in Canada.  She led    collaborative historic review with fish health professionals of BC salmon companies and Fisheries and Ocean Canada. Additionally, she worked for Canadian Food Inspection Agency on the import risk analysis of exotic aquatic infectious agents. Before 2016, her thesis research work was to explore the application of epidemiology in warm-water finfish health management in China.  

From 2009-2013, she served as the veterinary epidemiologist of the China-based teams of the organizations - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization, and International Livestock Institute. She was responsible for curriculum developing, launching, and monitoring and evaluation of the China Field Veterinary Epidemiology Training Program. In 2017, she was the national animal health consultant at FAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) China, where she was technically in charge of the development and delivery of antimicrobial resistance awareness and epidemiology capacity building.  

She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at AVC in UPEI, working on the epidemiological components of the Complex Gill Disease Initiative. Her career goal is for better health at the animal- human-environment interface. She values cross-disciplinary research collaborations. Her research interest includes  aquatic biosecurity, spatial-temporal analysis, situation analysis, modeling of risk factors, values chain study, and knowledge synthesis.  

RESEARCH SEMINAR:

"Working Together for Better Health at the Animal-Human-Environment Interface: Thoughts and Reflections from Training and Research in Epidemiology"

 Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 11:00 am

AVC Lecture Theatre "B"

TEACHING SEMINAR:

"Application and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests in Aquatic Epidemiology"

Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 12:30 pm

AVC Learning Commons 287N

Anyone interested is invited to attend.  A copy of the candidate's CV and letter of application are available by contacting Tracy O'Flaherty (toflaherty@upei.ca)