Calvin Schwabe Award

The Calvin W. Schwabe Award is presented annually by the AVEPM to honor lifetime achievement in veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine.

Calvin W. Schwabe was a professor of epidemiology in the schools of veterinary medicine and medicine at the University of California, Davis. He was widely known as the father of veterinary epidemiology and established the first department and graduate program in epidemiology within the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. Dr. Schwabe made important scholarly contributions in a broad array of subjects including epidemiology, diseases of animals transmissible to people, interactions of veterinary and human medicine, parasitic zoonoses and their control, tropical health, public health practice, livestock health in pastoral societies, ancient origins of human and veterinary medicine and the philosophy of science. In the 1980’s, he coined the phrase “One Medicine” to unify human and veterinary efforts to reduce zoonotic diseases. Dr. Schwabe was the inaugural winner of the award named in his honor.

Previous recipients include Drs. Calvin W. Schwabe, Robert K. Anderson, James H. Steele, S. Wayne Martin, Clive C. Gay, David W. Hird, Hollis N. Erb, Preben W. Willeberg, Dale D. Hancock, Ian R. Dohoo, Yrjö T. Gröhn, Roger S. Morris, Will D. Hueston, Ian A. Gardner, Alfonso Torres, Lawrence T. Glickman, Dirk Pfeiffer, Tim Carpenter and Jan Sargeant.