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Pre-ISVEE surveillance workshop

Discussing the development and application of methods for effective surveillance in livestock populations

6-8 August 2009, Durban, South Africa

The workshop was sponsored by Defra as part of the implementation of Strategic Goal 3 of the UK Veterinary Surveillance Strategy, which seeks to derive better value from surveillance information and activities.

The main objectives were to:

  • Discuss the development and application of surveillance approaches for a range of different surveillance objectives.
  • Investigate the constraints that limit the use of effective surveillance methods in different situations.

Report

The report (590kb pdf) from this workshop is now available.

A shorter summary (90kb pdf) document is also available including:

  • The executive summary.
  • Proposed definitions and description criteria (appendix 2b).
  • An action list for progressing the implementation of effective surveillance (appendix 7).

The key outcomes of the workshop were to:

  • Initiate the development of a standardised system for describing surveillance activities (appendix 2b of report).
  • Explore the selection of appropriate surveillance methods for different objectives.
  • Develop ideas about how the efficiency of surveillance methods might be enhanced.
  • Identify means to encourage the implementation of appropriate and efficient surveillance methods and develop an action list facilitate this (appendix 7 of report).
  • Clarify the importance of communication between scientists and data providers in order to build trust and encourage participation in surveillance systems.
  • Identify the need for enhancing communication and co-operation within the scientific community and initiate the development of plans for an international surveillance conference (see the Animal Health Surveillance website).

Contact

For more information about this workshop, please contact Lara Inwood.

Presentations (available in pdf format)

 
Presenter Title of presentations Download pdf & size
 

Introductory session

 
Linda Hoinville
VLA, UK 		Discussing the development and application of methods for effective surveillance in livestock populations. 149kb

 

Endemic disease

  
Joey Ellis-Iversen
VLA, UK 		Endemic disease surveillance - surveillance approaches and data collection. 70kb
Olutayo Babalobi
University of Ibadan, Nigeria		 Participatory approaches to the monitoring and surveillance of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia disease outbreak among settled pastoralists at the Igangan grazing reserve, Oyo state, southwest Nigeria. (Not presented at workshop). 323kb
Jane Gibbens
Defra, UK		 Pilot Veterinary Sentinel Network Study – establishing the baseline. 201kb
Serge Nzietchueng
INRA, France		 Using social network approach for better description of animal health. 215kb
Daan Vink
VLA, UK 		Data analysis strategies for assessing the prevalence of endemic disease. 448kb
Marcus Doherr
University of Bern, Switzerland		 Prevalence estimation from various sampling strategies in the presence of heterogeneous disease distribution between strata and imperfect diagnostic tests. 104kb

 

Emerging (new) disease

  
Eamon Watson
VLA, UK 		Overview of strategies for collecting and analysising data for detecting emerging diseases. 199kb
Chris Bartels
Deventer, The Netherlands		 Space time cluster analyses on occurrence of unspecified mortality in dairy herds. 478kb
Angus Cameron
AusVet Animal Health Services, France		 Non-veterinary reporting of clinical observations using an expert system and pattern anomaly detection as the basis of a syndromic surveillance system for early warning 246kb
Kamina Johnson
USDA, USA		 Electronic global emerging disease surveillance. 164kb
 

Exotic disease

 
Lucy Snow
VLA, UK 		Collection and analysis of data for surveillance of exotic disease. 76kb
Marcelo Mota
Ministry of Agriculture, Brazil		 Avian influenza virus - Official surveillance system development in Brazil. 285kb
Cornelia Gerstenberg
Nat Dept Agric, South Africa		 Practical national serological pig survey to demonstrate country freedom from CSF, ASF, PRRS, SI, Aujeszky’s Disease and TGE. 307kb
Lori Gustafson
USDA, USA		 Application of decision science techniques in surveillance planning. 224kb
Nathaline Bruneau
Aquatic animal health division, Canada		 A surveillance and risk evaluation framework for evaluating likelihood of disease within aquatic animal subpopulations with partial barriers to pathogen exchange from contiguous water sources. 227kb
Lis Alban
Danish Meat Association, Denmark,		 Development of a risk-based surveillance programme for Trichinella in Denmark.

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Closing session

 
Linda Hoinville
VLA, UK 		Implementation of surveillance methods. 77kb

Jane Gibbens
Defra, UK

Developing methods for effective surveillance 144kb