GBADs Australian Workshop

February 21^st 2023, Professor Jonathan Rushton, University of Liverpool and GBADs director held meetings with GBADs Australian and Indonesian Partners at the CSIRO Black Mountain site, Canberra. On 22^nd February a GBADs workshop was held with representatives of the Australian and New Zealand government and from the Australian private sector where information was shared on the progress of GBADs globally and with the Indonesian case study (supported by ACIAR). This was followed with a discussion on how to strengthen work on the burden of animal diseases in Australia building on existing data collection and analysis efforts, and how partnerships can be developed to create GBADs network with activities in the Asia and Pacific region. GBADs recognise and acknowledge the support of Mark Schipp (Australian CVO), Anna Okello (ACIAR), Andy Sheppard (CSIRO) and Mary van Endel (New Zealand CVO) in their roles to ensure the workshop was a success and for guiding the discussion how GBADs can strengthen activities in the region.

As we entered the second day, more of our partners and collaborators joined us at CSIRO and attended the workshop. The agenda points were as followed:

10:00 – 10:10	Overview of GBADs program objectives and approach	Prof. Jonathan Rushton (GBADs director)
10:10 – 10:15	Objectives and agenda of the workshop	Dr Di Mayberry
10:15 – 10:30	Setting the context of the livestock sector – population and biomass and economic value	Dr Yin Li
10.30 -10.45	Setting the context of the livestock sector – economic value of the livestock and their output	Dr Peggy Schrobback
10:45-11:00	Gap due to disease and health problems – animal health loss envelope	Prof. Jonathan Rushton
11:00 -11:15	Disease burden attribution framework and preliminary results	Dr Mieghan Bruce
11:15 – 11:30	Using the farm-level burden estimates in economy and trade models	Professor Tom Marsh, Washington State University and Professor Dustin Pendell, Kansas State University USA (online)

12.00 – 12.15

Introduction to the Indonesia GBADs case study

Dr Di Mayberry and Prof. Indi Dharmayanti

12.15 – 12.30

Policy context

Dr Dom Smith

12.30 – 12.55

Discussion on:

· Opportunities for an Australian cases

· GBADs centre for Asia/Pacific region

Prof. Jonathan Rushton, Dr. Di Mayberry and Dr. Mieghan Bruce

A plan of action was agreed on developing a proposal on Australia based work that will be led by CSIRO. Further discussions will be held on how the Asia and Pacific activities can be strengthened.

Christine Middlemiss, UK CVO, quoted from The Australian Workshop “I think this is a fantastic and TBH a globally critical programme”