<p>ooooh, sorry, i misunderstood the EIS program.</p>
<p>In terms of DVM/PhD. You wouldn’t need a PhD in disease ecology (I’ve never even heard of that field). A PhD in either biological sciences or epidemiology/statistics would be more than adequate for the type of work you want to do. PhDs are not really about the specific knowledge you learn. They’re degrees in thought processes and procedures and can be pretty easy to translate from one field to the next.</p>
<p>Even if you want to work with a non zoonotic disease, animal models are still fundamental to infectious disease research so it’s not like a DVM would preclude you from studying infections that transmit human to human.</p>