Animal Disease Research Centre (ADRC) was started in year 1970 and Dr. B. S. Gill joined as first head of ADRC. Thereafter the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Veterinary Medicine came into existence in the year 1998 following inclusion of Epidemiology division from Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from the Department of Veterinary Medicine in addition to ADRC as per VCI Regulations 1994. Following the new guidelines of VCI 2008, the component of Veterinary Epidemiology has been merged with the Department of Veterinary Public Health, now renamed as Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, and the component of Preventive Veterinary Medicine has been merged with the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Ethics and Jurisrudence, now redesignated as Department of Veterinary Medicine. The Animal Disease Research Centre has again started functioning as an Independent Unit.
