History of the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists (ICAHIS) and its partnership in One Health

Abstract

This paper chronicles the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists’ (ICAHIS) beginning in 1992 to its present. Also described is other groups and conferences formed from the international animal health information conference idea. Through its history, ICAHIS has been a forum for colleagues worldwide to discuss, share, and promote animal health information access. This article is a brief history of ICAHIS’s origins and the movement it fostered. The 7th ICAHIS, the first in the U.S., will occur in Boston, May 3-8, 2013. Previous conferences were held on three continents: Europe, Africa, and Australia.

To find more papers presented at the International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists, 1992-2018, see https://research.libraries.wsu.edu/xmlui/handle/2376/1376.