Hosting Global Awards
We are delighted to have been chosen to host the 2025 Global Veterinary Awards.
This year the event will take place at a huge joint congress of the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in Washington DC between July 18-22. Thousands of veterinarians from the USA and the rest of the world will be attending and the Awards will be a centrepiece of the event.
This year, the awards ceremony will be a joint celebration by the WVA and the AVMA, which will celebrate its 2025 Excellence Awards. The nomination period is now open for the 2025 AVMA Excellence Awards. The awards program recognizes contributions by veterinarians and non-veterinarians to the veterinary profession and to animal health and welfare.

Washington DC will be the location for the 2025 Awards
The WVA Global Veterinary Awards comprises 6 awards of 5000 Euros each. These Awards recognise four veterinarians and one veterinary student for their work in providing animal owners, governments, health authorities, farmers, other veterinarians, and the public, with best practice across the four Strategic Objectives of the WVA – One Health, Medicines Stewardship, Animal Welfare, Veterinary Education – plus an awards for the “Veterinary student of the year” organised in conjuntion with the International Veterinary Student Association (IVSA)
One overall winner as “Veterinarian of the year” will be chosen out the winners of the 4 WVA Strategic Objective categories.
Nominations
The WVA has called out to its members to nominate individuals by the 26th of February 2025; only nominations from WVA Members are accepted and must be submitted throught the link sent to their official email contact.
As well as hosting the live event, Good Call Media will also travel in advance to film with the various winners and produce video records of their work , to be shown in the build up to the event and also at the ceremony itself.
See our trailer for the Awards here: