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Alignment of human and veterinary medicine professions within the context of public health science is based on ancient history. At this point, interaction between human and animal, and also utilization of the human beings from animals’ power and products has played an important role in order to sustain their life for centuries. Public Health had been revealed by human physicians for the first time with the development of social medicine concept. Therefore, it was acquired a shape and developed within the human medicine community early on. Nowadays, the science of public health has the most important role in the protection of global health. Famous medical scientists such as French orthopedic surgeon René Jules G. Guerin, German physician Solomon Neumann, German pathologist, Professor. Dr.. Rudolf Virchow, Alfred Grotjahn has an important role in the emergence of the concept of the Public Health. At that period of times, American veterinarians, used the phrase of "veterinary public health" for the first time in the world in order to bring up markedly the relation between veterinary science and public health, and also its’ contributions. In the same year in the U.S., Boston veterinarian Frank S. Billings, in 1884, explained that there is a social dimension of the relation between animal diseases and public health. He has indicated that this dimension has been depending on the scientific developments and also he has strongly advocated that veterinary public health is necessary for protecting people from animal diseases. Dr. Daniel Salmon, who is one of the world's leading veterinarians and identifies Salmonella bacteria for the first time in 1885, has become one of the most important advocate of veterinary public health in 1890. In light of the foregoing, veterinary public health was defined as “veterinary public health comprises all the community efforts influencing and influenced by the veterinary medical arts and sciences applied to the prevention of diseases, protection of life, and promotion of the wellbeing and efficiency of man” by American Veterinary Public Health Board established by the American Veterinarian.1 In 1948, following the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) American Veterinary Virologist Dr. Martin M. Kaplan initiated into his career an office at WHO and he established the Unit of Veterinary Public Health within WHO. The definition of "veterinary public health" of American Board of Veterinary Public Health was accepted at the first zoonosis meeting, which was organized on 11 to 16 December 1950 in the Geneva city of Switzerland, in common with the participation of experts on the subject from WHO, United Nations and Food and Agriculture Organization. The aim of this article was to present informations on historical development of the veterinary public health consept.

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