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In May 2024, CDC announced updates to its dog importation regulations intended to protect the health and safety of people and animals by making sure any dog arriving in the United States is healthy and doesn’t present a risk to communities. Effective August 1, 2024, the new regulations lay out some basic requirements for all dogs to be imported (i.e., appear healthy upon arrival, be at least six months old, be microchipped, be accompanied by a CDC Dog Import Form online submission receipt), as well as additional requirements that are based on where the dogs has been during the past six months and whether the dog was or was not vaccinated against rabies in the United States. During this webinar we’ll go through these new regulations and the rationale for them, as well as CDC’s recent updates that are intended to make the process of importation from countries that are low-risk for the canine rabies variant easier.
Dr. Golab is Associate Executive Vice President and Chief Veterinary Officer for the American Veterinary Medical Association, overseeing its Animal and Public Health, Animal Welfare, and Global Outreach Divisions. Previously, Dr. Golab served as Chief Advocacy and Public Policy Officer and in a variety of other roles in the AVMA’s Animal Welfare, Publications, Education and Research, and Communications Divisions. Before her tenure at the AVMA, she spent several years in private companion animal practice, and prior to that served as a research consultant at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
Best known for more than 30 years of work in the human-animal interactions/animal welfare field, Dr. Golab has served on advisory committees on the care and use of animals in agriculture, biomedical research, the pet industry, entertainment, and human healthcare applications.
She graduated with a PhD from Texas A&M University, a DVM from the University of Illinois, is a member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (Animal Welfare), a charter diplomate of the American College of Animal Welfare, and a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.