Doctor Gaetano Trevisi, starting from July 1, 2024, is the new director of the Complex Operating Unit of Animal Health of the Ferrara Local Health Authority.
Dr. Trevisi graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1987 at the University of Bologna and specialized in Small Animal Diseases in 1991 at the University of Pisa. After working as a freelancer for several years, in May 1992 he began working as a collaborating veterinarian (first) and then as a veterinary manager (later) at the Modena Local Health Authority. In 2004 he began working at the Ferrara Local Health Authority where he has always been involved in animal health, holding various professional and management positions.
THE OPERATIONAL UNIT. This Service, part of the Department of Public Health, has as its main purpose the protection of animal health in a “One Health (OH)” perspective, that is, through an approach that tends to integrate actions that promote the health of people, animals, plants and ecosystems. The protection of animal health represents a pillar of European legislation because it is intimately connected to food safety and the control of zoonoses (infectious diseases of animals, also transmissible to humans).
Specifically, the Operational Unit carries out prevention, control, surveillance and eradication activities for animal diseases of major interest. It also intervenes in the management of veterinary health emergencies, particularly epidemic and non-epidemic ones.
Among other relevant activities, the control of the movement of livestock and pets through information systems for the management of animal registries, health certifications and registration and recognition procedures for all structures that keep animals, of all species (from the “classic” dogs, cattle, horses, fish and bees up to, for example, camelids, earthworms and snails).
“Animal Health – comments Dr. Trevisi – as a Complex Operating Unit is of great importance in the field of public health. With my team I intend to build a service that is attentive to the needs of the territory, in step with the times and also ready to face the challenges determined by “climate change” and the intense movements of men and animals responsible for the presence of new pathologies. My goal will also be to streamline, as much as possible, the bureaucratic aspects with a view to greater efficiency, favoring the development of productive activities in the provincial territory while preserving the health of animals, public health and those of the environment”.
