The Center for Control and Prevention of Zoonoses (CCPZ), domiciled in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Ibadan is home to research, education and services in the surveillance of diseases at the human-animal-environment interface in West Africa. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded the concept note for a center of excellence at the University of Ibadan to improve postgraduate programmes for human-animal disease surveillance in West Africa, as part of the foundation's support to Higher Education Initiative in Africa, September 2011. The MacArthur Foundation grant of eight hundred and ninety thousand United States dollars ($890,000:00) resulted in the establishment of the CCPZ in January, 2012. The center was institutionalized by the Senate of the University of Ibadan in 2019. The center performs a spectrum of activities that serve as nucleus laboratories in support of the National Zoonoses Center.

The center supports training programmes in the Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Department of Veterinary Pathology; Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology; Department of Veterinary Microbiology, promoting inter-faculty collaboration with staff and students in the Faculty of Public Health in the College of Medicine, Faculty of the Social Sciences, the Faculties of Agriculture, Renewable Natural Resources, Science, Technology and beyond. Being a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded Center of Excellence at the University of Ibadan, CCPZ is home to sub-regional One Health groups, including the Society for Rabies in West Africa (RIWA), and the National Zoonoses Information Systems (NZIS). The NZIS was first designed and deployed for the National Zoonoses Center (Nucleus Laboratory) in Nigeria.