It works on behalf of its member organisations with the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health and others to further the interests of animals, humans and the environment we all live in.
[1] Dr John Gamgee, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh invited other veterinary academics and veterinarians from Europe to a meeting at Hamburg, Germany in July 1863.
This later became known as the World Veterinary Congress and was attended by 103 veterinarians from ten countries.
[2] By the twenty-fifth congress in Yokohama, Japan, in 1995, there were over ten thousand participants representing 82 countries.
It has an online library providing access to information on veterinary topics, research, reports and other WVA-related material.