On Tuesday 12th December, the WOAH Collaborating Centre for Economics in Animal Health (CCEAH) European region held a Workshop in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The Workshop was designed as an end of year round up for the CCEAH consortium to meet, present the work the Collaborating Centre has achieved, and plan for the future of the Collaborating Centre.
The morning session, chaired by Jonathan Rushton (University of Liverpool), gave an overview of what the CCEAH had set out to do and what it had achieved to date, this included lessons learnt and the implications for GBADs and the other European projects. This lead into the CCEAH partners giving flash talks on the work they have done including the work of a selection of case studies in Norway, The United Kingdom, Netherlands and Ireland, the learnings from this work, and how they would like to extend this work in the future.
Cecile Walde, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, chaired our second session on learning about projects on or related to the economics to animal health in Europe. These presentations gave information on the strategic importance for future EU work. The presentations included updates from GBADs, DECIDE, EBITA Cost Action, European Animal Health and Welfare Partnership (PAHW) and EFSA Burden of Zoonoses, this gave the team a chance to discuss the current situation of each project and how the CCEAH consortium can link into each project.
The day rounded up with an open discussion on what had been learnt throughout the day, want can be achieved with future collaborations, and what role the WOAH CCEAH could have.
The meeting was a great opportunity to gather consortium members together to discuss the CCEAH in Europe and how future opportunities could help to develop the centre.
A big thank you to all of our attendees, in person and online for attending and for all the work you have done for the Collaborating Centre.
If you would like to know more about the CCEAH in Europe, click here or contact gbads@liverpool.ac.uk