Javier Burchard, Ph.D.
Chief Innovation Officer
Javier leads the development and execution of CDCB innovation strategy, having joined the team in October 2018. His prior expertise includes developing and implementing short-term and long-term technology transfer cooperation projects with the private sector in the areas of herd health, milk recording, livestock nutrition, and quality systems in Argentina, Brazil, China, and Mexico. He also directed a 10-year research program on the toxicology of electric and magnetic fields on dairy livestock to support policy development of rural electric networks in Quebec, Canada. Javier has provided technical assistance to the pharmaceutical industry on efficacy trials for livestock production.
Javier holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Animal Science from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and a D.V.M. from the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has lectured undergraduate and graduate students in animal health and mammalian physiology and trained veterinarians and agronomists on animal health and production and animal nutrition, including sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures.
Projects & Publications
How can genetics reduce lameness?
Genetic selection for improved hoof health is one opportunity to reduce lameness, which affects about 50% of dairy cows and results in economic losses, poor health and suboptimal animal welfare.
Research Updated: Pipeline for Hoof Health Data
The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) is implementing a project to provide dairy producers with state-of-the-art knowledge and technologies to enhance hoof health and promote productivity and sustainability of the dairy enterprise.
Can we find genetic solutions to lameness?
About 50% of dairy cows will be affected by lameness during their productive life, resulting in economic losses, poor health and suboptimal animal welfare.
Improving dairy feed efficiency, sustainability, and profitability by impacting farmer's breeding and culling decisions
ICAR-Interbull Conference, April 26-30, 2021
An alternative interpretation of residual feed intake by phenotypic recursive relationships in dairy cattle
Journal of Dairy Science, 2021
Antimicrobial resistance: a silent threat for human animal and environmental health
China Animal Health Inspection, 2014
Innovation and epidemiological surveillance, the case of Schmallenberg disease
China Animal Health Inspection, 2013
Improving veterinary and human public health cooperation for effective zoonotic and emerging infectious disease surveillance and response under the framework of "one health" in China
China Animal Health Inspection, 2010