AVMA Animal Health Studies Database

How you can support advancements in animal health care
  • Promote public awareness of the AAHSD. Tell your family and friends. Ask your breed associations to link to the AAHSD on their websites. Ask your veterinarian to link to the AAHSD from their website if they have not already done so.

  • Promote efficiency in the conduct of veterinary clinical studies. If you are participating in, or interested in, a veterinary clinical study that is not listed in the AAHSD, ask personnel associated with that study to list the study on the AAHSD. Doing so will increase awareness of the study as well as accelerated enrollment of animals into the study. Faster enrollment = Faster completion and results! Furthermore, listing a study on the AAHSD makes the existence of that study more widely known to other investigators which may avoid unnecessary duplication of similar studies.

  • Promote transparency in the conduct of veterinary clinical studies. If you are participating in, or interested in, a veterinary clinical study listed on the AAHSD, ask personnel associated with that study if they will post the results of that study, once completed, into the AAHSD. Whether the study had positive or negative results, it can serve to inform the profession in regards to interventions that are worth pursuing further and those which are not. Asking that the results of the study be posted honors the commitment of the owners and animals enrolled in that study to advancing the greater good for animals everywhere.

  • Make a donation. Unlike human medicine, which benefits from billions of dollars of federal funding through the NIH, NSF, and others, there is little federal funding of veterinary research and advances in veterinary medicine are often dependent upon funding from charitable organizations or foundations. Financial support of these helps fund investigators working to advance animal health care. If you haven’t donated to one of these, please consider making a donation to the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF). Doing so will not only provide the AVMF with money to fund critical veterinary clinical studies, but also help to support the ongoing costs associated with maintaining the AAHSD and expanding the AAHSD to incorporate additional tools to facilitate veterinary clinical studies.