Mission

The mission for the Center for the Study of Human-Animal Interdependent Relationships at Tuskegee University's School of Veterinary Medicine is to use a multidisciplinary approach to studying, strengthening, and promoting the health benefits that people and animals may derive from one another.

Its mission is built on the belief that the interdependent relationships between people and animals is to be respected, valued, protected, and enhanced.

With help from its friends, the Center is committed to the long-term use of its available resources to respond to society's ever-changing priorities and needs.

Goals

The Center's goals are to partner with others in veterinary medicine, the human health care professions, and the social and biological sciences who have similar interests and concerns to:

1) acquire scientific knowledge about human-animal relationships,

2) develop techniques that assure people and animals receive the maximum physical, cognitive, social, and psychological benefits from their relationships with one another, and

3) disseminate through outreach and service knowledge regarding the human-animal bond and those interventions that benefit both people and animals