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NAHLN Mission and Vision Statements

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Mission

NAHLN will:

  • Provide accessible, timely, accurate, and consistent animal disease laboratory services nationwide;
  • Provide laboratory data to meet epidemiological and disease reporting needs;
  • Maintain the capacity and capability to provide laboratory services in support of responses to foreign animal disease outbreaks or other adverse animal health events;and
  • Focus on diseases of livestock (exotic, zoonotic, and emerging diseases), while including diseases of nonlivestock species.

Vision

The NAHLN is the nationwide model for effective diagnostic networks that respond quickly and efficiently and communicate diagnostic outcomes to decisionmakers.  The NAHLN is organized and supported so that it has the capacity to respond to animal-disease outbreaks nationwide.

 

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Last Modified: October 1, 2007


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