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The World Veterinary Association (WVA) has announced the theme for this year’s World Veterinary Day on April 26 is “Animal health takes a team,” highlighting the field’s collaborative nature.
Notably, this year, the AVMA will cohost the 40th World Veterinary Association Congress (WVAC) from July 18-22 in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with AVMA Convention 2025. This collaborative effort will bring together the global veterinary community for continuing education, special events, and networking opportunities.
The World Veterinary Day 2025 theme was selected, in part, because it paired well with the theme of this year’s convention’s, “United for the veterinary community,” said Dr. John de Jong, WVA president and a former AVMA president.
“It takes a team approach to provide optimal animal care and animal health around the world,” Dr. de Jong added, noting veterinarians do so much more than provide individual animal care.
“Veterinarians are typically looked at by the public as caretakers of their beloved pets, but the reality is, we are so much more than that,” Dr. de Jong said. “We as a profession need to be loud and proud about all that we do and speak up for veterinary medicine,” including advancing food safety, production animal medicine, equine medicine, epidemiology, research and education, animal welfare, the human-animal bond, public health, aquaculture, and One Health.
World Veterinary Day, annually observed on the last Saturday of April, aims to celebrate the contributions of veterinarians to the health of animals, people, and the environment.
“This year’s theme focuses on the importance of teamwork in veterinary care, acknowledging that effective veterinary services often rely on the collective efforts of a range of professionals, including veterinary nurses, technicians, researchers, and other allied health professionals,” according to the WVA announcement.
WVA created World Veterinary Day in 2000 as an annual celebration of the veterinary profession.
Since 2019, the WVA has partnered with Health for Animals, the global animal health industry association, on the World Veterinary Day Award. The recipient of the World Veterinary Day Award will receive $5,000 for best promoting the annual theme.
The WVA and Ceva Sante Animale have also recently announced that nominations for the 2025 WVA Global Veterinary Awards are now open.
The awards, €5,000 each, recognize four veterinarians for their contribution toward the WVA’s four strategic objectives: animal welfare, medicines stewardship, One Health, and veterinary education, with one overall “Veterinarian of the Year” selected from these recipients. A veterinary student will also be recognized in collaboration with the International Veterinary Students Association.
All winners will be recognized during a special awards ceremony on July 19 at AVMA Convention 2025 and WVAC 2025.
WVA member associations can nominate individuals for the WVA Global Veterinary Awards through February 26.
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