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Day One – Wednesday 25 March
09.30 - 12.00
Workshops
Workshop 1: Uncover the Unknown – Epidemiological outbreak investigations in the event of an animal disease outbreak
Workshop 2: Maximizing research impact by using business models
Workshop 3: A crash course in causal inference
Workshop 4: AI and Data-Driven Epidemiology: Practical Tools for Modeling, Inference, and Early Warning
Workshop 5: The Future of Veterinary Epidemiology in a Changing World
Workshop 6: Economics of One Health
Workshop 7: Good practices for implementing and documenting mathematical models
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch
13.00 - 14.00
Session 1
Plenary Lecture
Details to be announced shortly.
Chair: Fernanda Dórea
14.00 - 15.30
Session 2
Avian Influenza
14.00 – 14.25: Dilution by low-competence species reduces the risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission – Clara Delecroix, IHAP, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France
14.25 – 14.50: Sailing the waves of avian influenza epidemics: the key role of organizational and managerial bricolage – Philippe Brauneisen, UMR IHAP (ENVT-INRAE), France
14.50 – 15.15: Ecology and persistence of H9N2 avian influenza viruses in live bird markets – Francesco Pinotti, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR EPIA, France
15.15 – 15.30: Poster pitches
Chair: Egil Fischer
15.30 - 16.15
Refreshments and Poster Viewing
16.15 - 17.45
Session 3
Stakeholder Engagement
16.15 – 16.40: Unveiling temporal and regional factors of antibiotic resistance: a multisectoral panel analysis of fluoroquinolone-resistant E. coli across French regions – Servane Bareille, University of Lyon – French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), Epidemiology and Surveillance Support Unit, Lyon, France
16.40 – 17.05: Forest dynamics and exposure to Ixodes ricinus bites in France: insights from citizen science and land-use history – Nolwenn Blache, Université Clermont Auvergne, UMR Territoires et UMR EPIA, VetAgro Sup, Lempdes, France
17.05 – 17.30: Reframing dairy cow resilience: farmer insights into a multisystemic concept – Charlotte Doidge, University of Nottingham, UK
17.30 – 17.45: Poster pitches
Chair: Inge Santman-Berends
17.45 - 18.15
Poster Viewing
18.15 - 21.00
Welcome Reception
Day Two – Thursday 26 March
07.00 - 07:45
5K Fun Run
All participants run at their own risk, this is a self-guided route.
08.45 - 09.50
Session 4
Burden Assessment
08.45 – 09.10: Expressing the economic burden of zoonotic Salmonella in poultry in a One Health context: application to three EU Member States – Ana-Maria Pîrvulescu, Department of Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Netherlands
09.10 – 09.35: Burden of antimicrobial resistance in post-weaning diarrhoea – a case-study in the Danish pig sector applying the GBADs framework – Joao Afonso, Global Burden of Animal Diseases Programme, & University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
09.35 – 09.50: Poster pitches
Chair: Luís Pedro Carmo
09.50 - 10.30
Refreshments and Poster Viewing
10.30 - 11.35
Session 5
Spread and Impact Assessment
10.30 – 10.55: Risk Mapping of West Nile Virus for Switzerland – Giulia Savioli, Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland & Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Bern, Switzerland
10.55 – 11.20: A stochastic model to assess the multidimensional impact of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and the effectiveness of intervention strategies in fattening pigs – Marloes Boeters, Utrecht University, Netherlands
11.20 – 11.35: Poster pitches
Chair: Carla Gomes
11.35 - 13.00
SVEPM Annual General Meeting
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
Session 6
Interventions
14.00 – 14.25: Optimising stocking density to support health and welfare in broiler production – Yara Slegers, Utrecht University, Netherlands
14.25 – 14.50: Modelling intermittent vaccination strategies for bTB control in badgers – Megan Bird, National Wildlife Management Centre, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Sand Hutton, York, UK
14.50 – 15.15: Aseptic practices, not antimicrobial use, are associated with surgical site infections in low-resource animal sterilization settings – Ursula Goetz & Casey Cazer, Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, New York, USA & BradyCare, Middelfart, Denmark
15.15 – 15.30: Poster pitches
Chair: Timothée Vergne
15.30 - 16.15
Refreshments and Poster Viewing
16.15 - 17.30
Session 7
Surveillance
16.15 – 16.40: Integrating wild bird and environmental samples to strengthen avian influenza surveillance: a latent class modelling approach – Diletta Fornasiero, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Viale dell’Università 10, 35020, Legnaro, Italy
16.40 – 17.05: Development and validation of a real-time forecasting surveillance system to improve PRRSV regional control at the county and site-level – Swaminathan Jayaraman, Department of Veterinary Diagnostics and Animal Production Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
17.05 – 17.30: Comparative analysis of harmonic linear regression and dynamic linear modelling for syndromic surveillance in dairy herds – Nannet Fabri, Royal GD, Netherlands
Chair: Ilias Chantziaras
17.30 - 18.00
Poster Viewing
19.00 - Late
Gala Dinner
Location: Bloomsbury Ballroom
Day Three – Friday 27 March
09.00 - 10.15
Session 8
Modelling
09.00 – 09.25: Model development towards understanding persistent elevated mortality in seawater phase of Scottish Atlantic salmon aquaculture – Meadhbh Moriarty, Marine Directorate, Scottish Government, UK
09.25 – 09.50: Use of an interrupted time series model to account for external events during a randomised controlled trial – Stuart Becker, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
09.50 – 10.15: Identifying the role of multiple hosts in the epidemiology of brucellosis at the wildlife-livestock interface – Sebastien Lambert, IHAP, Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France
Chair: Katja Schulz
10.15 - 10.45
Refreshments and Poster Viewing
10.45 - 11.35
Session 9
Ruminants Health
10.45 – 11.10: Milk source matters! Evaluating Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV) transmission in dairy calves fed milk replacer versus pooled milk from BLV-infected and uninfected cows – Gustavo Monti, Epidemiology of Infectious Disease Group, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
11.10 – 11.35: Sustained increase in prion protein genotypes resistant to classical scrapie and spatial clustering of susceptible alleles in Great Britain’s sheep flock – Seer Ikurior, Department of Epidemiological Sciences, Animal and Plant Health Agency, UK
Chair: Ane Nødvedt
11.35 - 12.20
Session 10
Title to be confirmed
Professor Lisa Boden (LLM, PhD, FHEA, MANZCVSc, DipECVPH, FRCVS), Head of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Dean of Veterinary Medicine
Chair: Fernanda Dórea
12.20 - 12.35
Close of the Conference
15.00 - 16.30
Walking Tour
Location: Entrance of Senate House
Tickets for the walking tour are not included in the standard registration fee and must be purchased as an add-on.
