News & Upcoming Events

The column "A word from OLAW and USDA" in November's Lab Animal discusses "categorizing insufficient pain alleviation."

Joint International Symposium on Animal Welfare presented by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) will be held in East Lansign, MI on November 9-11, 2009. The symposium, “Swimming With the Tide – Animal Welfare in Veterinary Medical Education and Research”, is for veterinarians, educators, researchers, students, and others interested in animal welfare. The program will focus on animal welfare as an evolving discipline and educating veterinarians to be effective decision makers and advocates.

APHIS has now started posting inspection reports for research facilities on their website. Although inspection reports have been available through the Freedom of Information Act for many years, this allows anyone with an internet connection to view inspection reports instantly. Institutions may want to review the procedure for appealing USDA citations, which is available in Animal Care's Research Facility Inspection Guide, section 7.8.

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SCAW Programs and Upcoming Events

SCAW Winter Conference: Creating and Running an Engaged and Proactive IACUC. December 7-8 2009, San Antonio, TX. SCAW’s Winter Conference is a major source of training that is required or recommended by AAALAC, OLAW and APHIS.  Members of IACUCs and all others who work with research animals should attend.

PRIM&R Programs and Upcoming Events

OLAW Workshops and Conferences Calendar
for the National Animal Welfare Education Program, maintained by the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare.

OLAW IACUC Staff Outreach Seminars calendar, webinars hosted by OLAW

OLAW IACUC Staff Online Seminars, seminar recordings and reference material available to IACUC staff and faculty members.

USDA conferences and workshops

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Preparing for a pandemic: Institutions may want to consider drafting a policy on conducting official business during a pandemic, or adding specific provisions to an existing disaster plan. Click HERE for a sample policy drafted by Molly Greene of Michigan State University.

OLAW has added a question to their FAQ; "How can institutions and their IACUCs best prepare for a pandemic?"