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We're helping to train veterinary students and workers in the animal care industry.

Merck Animal Health is committed to supporting education for veterinary students and continuing education for veterinarians and animal husbandry workers. We understand that the vital role these professionals play in keeping animals healthy also helps keep humans healthy.

Merck Animal Health's support encompasses a wide range of animal health-related educational programs around the world. Merck Animal Health's support includes:

• Providing scholarships to veterinary students pursuing careers in large animal medicines in the U.S., and supporting award programs for outstanding veterinary students in Portugal and the Philippines.
• Developing the Dairy Care365 Training Series, a program to educate U.S. dairy farm workers in best practices for handling and managing dairy cattle.
• Providing educational support for programs working to improve animal husbandry practices in Malawi, Cameroon and Ethiopia. The programs include the Shire Highlands Milk Producers Association project for dairy workers in Malawi, a swine health project of the Heifer International network in Cameroon and a project to assist poultry producers in Ethiopia.
• Offering poultry and swine health training courses to veterinarians for more than 20 years. Through these courses, which are held in The Netherlands, hundreds of veterinarians from important poultry and swine production countries and companies around the world have received training. The courses are conducted in collaboration with the Dutch Animal Health Service. For the past three years, an extended level course on poultry has been conducted in collaboration with the University of Georgia's Department of Poultry Science in the U.S.
• Contributing to the Gustav Rosenberger Memorial Fund, which provides funds for training young veterinarians from South America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
• Sponsoring fish vaccination training to fish producers and veterinarians.

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