National Center for Animal and Plant Health

Created in 1969, is an organization of excellence with a highly qualified staff for carrying out its mission

The National Center for Animal and Plant Health (CENSA), founded in 1969, is a Science and Technological Innovation institution which belongs to the Ministry of Higher Education in Cuba.

It is a center of excellence in the development of R+D+i systems, from the training of a highly qualified staff, both nationally and internationally. It has achieved scientific-technical results of great impact on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of pests and diseases, food safety, and on the preparation and adaptation to climate change as well.

(Español) Visitan el CENSA los doctores Luis E. Pocasangre Enamorado, Líder por Costa Rica del proyecto MUSA y Joaquín Calderón Vargas, Jefe del Laboratorio de Ciencias, ambos del Earth University, de Costa Rica

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Durante los días 30 y 31 de Agosto, visitaron el CENSA los Dr. Luis E, Pocasangre Enamorado (Líder por Costa Rica del proyecto MUSA) y Joaquín Calderón Vargas (Jefe del Laboratorio de Ciencias), ambos del Earth University, de Costa Rica.

CENSA´s 50th Anniversary

The National Center for Animal and Plant Health (CENSA) will celebrate its 50^th ANNIVERSARY in 2019. It is an institution created due to a request by our Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, who initially promoted the care for animal health, to later extend to other branches of science, such as plant and human health.

The activities linked to CENSA´s 50^th Anniversary will be focused on the Cuban Science Day on January, and all the results obtained by the institution in 2017 will be recognized.

Also within the framework of these activities, we will have the book launch “Impronta de Fidel en la Ganadería Cubana” (Place: UNAH, Date: January 15^th, 9:00 a.m.), and the celebration of the V Workshop of Young Scientists (January 24^th and 25^th).

SISA 2019

The National Center for Animal and Plant Health (CENSA) and the Latin American Phytopathological Association are pleased to invite you to participate in the III International Seminar on Animal and Plant Health (SISA 2019) and the XX Congress of the Latin American Phytopathological Association to be held in Varadero( Hotel Meliá Marina ), Cuba, May 6-10, 2019, with the major theme “The agricultural sciences for One Health”. This third edition will be especially dedicated to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the foundation of CENSA.

Within the frame of the Event, researchers, professors, specialists, students, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and producers from different sectors and countries will debate the strategies and results of the intersectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration work in confronting those problems that affect health of plants, animals, people, and the ecosystem from the communities to scales of greater intervention.

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