On Wednesday 5th February 2025, GBADs and DECIDE  hosted the seventh official Seminar in a series between the two projects. The aim of each presentation this year is to continue presenting research that interests our audience. You can find the recording of all the talks below.

The three presenters; Emma-Jane Murray,  Camille Delavenne and Kassy Raymond all provided insightful presentation with an engaging discussion at the end with various questions from the audience.

Emma-Jane, who started the seminar, is researching the burden of cattle diseases in Ireland with the University College Dublin School of Veterinary Medicine, funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Ireland. Her project contributes to the Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme and background includes public health, veterinary epidemiology, governance, and animal science. This was then followed by Camille, who is an epidemiologist trained as a veterinarian, working for EpiMundi, former Ausvet Europe, for the past 3 years. In DECIDE, she is working with her colleague Céline Faverjon, the co-leader of DECIDE WP1, on the reuse of non-scholarly data to improve the management of endemic contagious diseases, moving from current practices to good examples of data reuse. We then ended the seminar with Kassy who is a PhD Candidate in Computational Sciences with the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph. She was also the Technical Manager for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) Informatics theme. Her research explores the operationalization of data governance principles to improve the quality, discoverability, and reusability of animal health and production data. She is interested in exploring data infrastructure to improve and understand data quality and interoperability, specifically using graph databases to map between Open Data sources and identifying the insights that can be drawn using this tool. Kassy’s research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) Doctoral Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D) and through the support of GBADs through funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

We would like to thank Emma-Jane, Camille and Kassy for presenting to the consortium. If you would like to hear more about the Seminar Series, please contact gbads@liverpool.a