Animal Health Economics and project Management

Economics of the livestock production system, livestock productivity assessment and modeling, livestock data collection for economic analysis (at an animal, herd/flock/farm, national, regional, etc levels), value output from livestock, economic analysis tools (gross margin analysis, enterprise budget, partial budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, decision tree, pay-off tables), the economic impact of animal disease (direct and indirect losses), principles and application of economics in a disease control policy, production functions; economic models and simulations, (linear and dynamic programming), optimization and cost-effective methods of disease controls, project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation