4th International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance

The 4th International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance covers topics such as:

• Cross-sector(2) surveillance - organization, collaboration and benefits
  • Political, organizational and collaborative experiences with cross-sector surveillance
  • Policy and scientific governance of cross-sector surveillance
  • Private/public/academic surveillance partnerships
  • One Health initiatives, design, impact and sustainability
  • Evaluation of cross-sector surveillance
  • Sharing surveillance: objectives, designs, tools, models, decision-making across sectors
  • Developing outcome-based/objective-driven surveillance across sectors
• Translating surveillance outcomes into policy(1), decisions and actions
  • Risk management/risk assessment interchange and interface
  • Translating or designing surveillance for policy, risk managers and decision-makers needs
  • Impact of policy change on surveillance
  • Everyday surveillance challenges for policy-makers
  • Rapid risk assessment and prioritisation of risks for policy and decision-makers
• Surveillance data
  • Evaluating and improving the value of available surveillance data
  • Making best use of imperfect and available surveillance data
  • The need for reference/census/register data to use surveillance data
  • Big data surveillance
  • Data sharing - trust, availability & accessibility
  • Accessibility of science for policy
• Cost and motivation - surveillance (in collaboration with ISESSAH)
  • Engaging the private sector in surveillance - methods and organization
  • Feedback loops and methods to motivate participation in surveillance
  • Motivating political and financial support for surveillance
  • Cost-sharing, value of surveillance, willingness-to-pay for different stakeholders
  • Estimating benefits of surveillance
• Integrating novel methods in surveillance
  • Artificial Intelligence in surveillance
  • Computer learning
  • Novel genetic methods and informatics into surveillance
  • Information capture e.g. platforms, devices etc
  • Innovative operational methods