About the Center
Founded in the VCU School of Medicine in June 2001, and housed within the Department of Psychiatry, the Center for Human-Animal Interaction is a 501(c)(3) organization through the Medical College of Virginia Foundation. The Center was established to promote and provide a formal structure for research, clinical services, and education related to the human-animal relationship.
Our Mission
Improving health and well being through human-animal interaction.
Our research goal is to increase knowledge of the benefits of the human-animal interaction through interdisciplinary research.
Our clinical goal is to enhance health and well being for patients and other members of our community through animal-assisted interventions.
Our educational goal is to improve understanding of the benefits of the human-animal interaction.
Annual Reports
