During November 11-15, 2024, members of the GBADs programme attended the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE), in Sydney, Australia to share and discuss the current work and progress of the GBADs programme with fellow leading Animal Health scientists.
During the conference, GBADs had their own Special Session taking place on Tuesday 11th November. The session began with presentations from Emma-Jane Murray (UCD), Girma Asteraye (University of Liverpool/Brooke/ILRI) and Peggy Schrobback (CSIRO) on their current work which navigated the session nicely into the second part which was a Oxford style debate on the topic ‘All animals need ideal health’. Mieghan Bruce (Murdoch University) and Wudu Jemberu Temesgen (ILRI) presented the motion for the debate whilst Mark Schipp and Paul Torgerson (University of Zurich) debate against the motion that all animals need animal health. The debate started with the audience of the session voting for their opinion on the motion before the presenters argued their views. A really interesting and unique session gave the audience views and opinions from both side but with only motion coming out on top! The final voting poll saw the motion for against all animals need ideal health won. With great numbers attending, it was a positive experience that we were happy to share with the members of the conference in person. This was a really good start to the week long conference.
Throughout the week we saw numerous presentations from the GBADs consortium across different research areas, projects and case studies.
ISVEE provides opportunities to connect with, learn from and exchange with colleagues from around the world. We are looking forward to the next ISVEE, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa in 2027.
You can find the information of each GBADs presenter below. We would like to thank all of our presenters (Oral and Posters) for their work and presentations given during ISVEE!
Dustin Pendell: Evaluating The Economic Impacts Of African Swine Fever On The U.s. Pork Supply Chain
Amanda Countryman: Economic Effects Of African Swine Fever On U.s. And Global Agricultural Markets
Anne Meyer: Estimating The Disease Burden On Small Ruminant Production In The Mixed Crop-livestock System Of Senegal
Emma-Jane Murray: Estimating the Irish cattle herd biomass and associated herd stock value temporal trends
Wudu Jemburu Temesgen: Farm level disease burden in ruminant production systems in Ethiopia
Tom Marsh: Are animal health investments optimal? An analysis of the determinants of public investment in agriculture and animal health
Peter Tozer: Impact of animal nutrition on the economic welfare of firms and consumers
Giulia Savioli: The burden of disease in Swiss pork production
Emma-Jane Murray: Estimating the Irish cattle herd biomass and associated herd stock value temportal trends
Gerdien Van Schaik: Monitoring The Foreseen And Unforeseen Effects Of Policies On Cattle Health
Gemma Chaters: Use of Cooke’s Classical Expert Elicitation to parameterize livestock population models with ‘ideal’ performance
GBADs Special Session: Global Burden of Animal Diseases: The great debate
Nyak Ilham: Estimating Livestock Biomass And Economic Value By Province In Indonesia: A Resource To Support Policymaking
Kurtis Sobkowich: Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance And Dashboards/visualizations
Jada Thompson: Biosecurity Investment Impacts on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Control in U.S. Turkey Operations
Jonathan Rushton: Ideal Health State Why Is It Important?
Simon Firestone: Modelling Workflows For Rapid Outbreak Appraisal, Decision- And Policy-support
Yin Li: Farm-level mortality and risk factors in Ethiopian livestock production systems
Emma-Jane Murray: Estimating The Animal Health Losses Of The Irish Cattle Sector Using Routinely Collected Data
Kurtis Sobkowich: Antimicrobial resistance surveillance and dashboards & Leveraging Dashboards as Collaborative Tools for Antimicrobial Resistance Anlysisdr
Wudu Jemberu Temesgen: Mixed Methods For Evaluating Livestock Vaccination Undertaken During Humanitarian Crises In Africa
Georgina Limon-Vega: Impact Of Sheep And Goat Pox And Peste Des Petits Ruminants Co-infection In Northern Nigeria & The structure and trade patterns in selected livestock markets in northern Nigeria and their potential role for transmission of transboundary animal diseases
Simon Firestone: Bayesian latent class modelling formulations for three or more dependant tests
Kurtis Sobkowich: AMR: A One Health challenge of Global proportions
Ellen Hughes: Developing a data dictionary per animal disease burden estimation
Ayesha Siddiqua: Developing an approach to accurately estimate disease frequencies in livestock to support the Global Burdan of Animal Diseases initiative
Lis Alban: Evaluating intergrated surveillance systems for antimicrobial resistance: what have we learned?
Kassy Raymond: A novel approach to data quality using multiple open datasets: measuring internal and external data consistency in livestock population data & Streamlining the discovery and interoperability of livestock data and classifications using metadata-driven graph databases
Beat Thomann: The Development Of A Resource-optimized Data- And Animal-based Method For Assessing Health And Welfare On Dairy Cattle And Pig Farms In Switzerland
Crawford Revie: Using Digital Tools To Improve Decision Making Around Livestock Disease In Low Resource Settings Of Ethiopia, With A Focus On Sheep And Goat Disease
Georgina Limon-Vega: Longitudinal Study Of Foot-and-mouth Disease Virus In Northern Nigeria: Implications For The Roles Of Small Ruminants And Environmental Contamination In Endemic Settings
Mariana Marrana: Twin To Win – Fostering Success In Laboratory Twinning Projects
Ellen Hughes: Data Requirements For Estimating The Burden Of Animal Diseases
Kara Dawson: The effect of risk-based sampling on herd-level detection probability for Johne’s disease in New Zealand dairy herds
