A great time for our partners at the International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics 2024 #ISVEE17!
This event was a wonderful opportunity to highlight the #BIOSECURE project and network with brilliant minds.
Until next time! 🤝
Attended International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics 2024 #ISVEE17 in Sydney. I presented my work on the epidemiology of various infectious diseases (leukosis, salmonellosis, neosporosis, contagious mastitis) in Alberta, Canada through both a presentation and a poster. #Academic
I had a fantastic time connecting with APCOVE partners and fellows over dinner at #ISVEE17 last week! Grateful to be part of such a passionate community advancing One Health and veterinary epidemiology.
Anyone out there who was at the #ISVEE17. What was the favorite new thing you heard about. I have a few, but I think my favorite was wildalert.org
One full and one partial square of burgundy lace on a white sheet
That's a wrap for #ISVEE17
If anyone's curious, here's the results of 5 days of conference listening. It's my first lace project, and I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. Someday it will be a tablecloth
#ISVEE17 session on VBDs
Shauna Richards on trypanicide failure in Tanzania
Complexity of outcomes: imperfect tests, species diversity. 41% prevalence in tx (7% failure), 39% in prophylaxis (40%failure). 34% inadequate administration
Andrew Breed from Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry on HPAI and OFFLU's surveillance activities. Such great work from very talented people.
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#ISVEE17 session on One Health starts with Chiara Crestani on genomic epi of C ulcerans (zoonotic cause of diptheria)
Used cgMLST and single-linkage clustering. Most clusters included humans and pets or pet contact. Wildlife->pets->people
Sharon Roche from Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry on AADIS to support ASF preparedness in Australia. aadis.org/prototype-un...
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Rebecca Gordon on African swine fever preparedness in the US. Import controls, zoning protocols, ASF protection zone with movement controls from Puerto Rico, monitoring for illegal boat landings, feral swine control, enhanced surveillance
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Rachel Schambow lessons from field veterinarians on ASF control.
Really sophisticated biosecurity going on. POC tests need to be for for purpose ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC.... Human mediated factors driving spread ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38133297/
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Chuong Dinh Vo on the epidemiology of African swine fever in Vietnam. Great work by Ministry of Agriculture in trying to control this devastating disease
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Michal Majewski on harmonising carcass condemnation codes in poultry
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#ISVEE17 session on preparing for the future starts with Beatt Thomann on objectively assessing health and welfare on Swiss farms
Mix of public and private data and on-farm measures not practical, so narrowed to 25 iceberg variables and set targets
Henrik Stryhn continuing on from Raphael's talk on human vs machine graded essays. Human inter-rater difference is pretty wild!
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Raphael Vanderstichel comparing chatgpt vs human graded essay scores for veterinary admissions.
Best explanation of GPTs ever!
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Masood Sujau - LLMs for systematic literature reviews. Inclusion and exclusion criteria entered as prompts. Human input still required for quality control.
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Tom Brownlie from ingenum showing us how to make more value of clinical observation data from veterinary visits using LLMs. Automated records from a short verbal prompt 😍 wish I had this in practice!
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Joerg Henning on a generic mobile app for tracking animal movement data in resource-limited settings. App and resources are available at ▶️
app.researchmobility.com. Doesn't require continuous internet connection. Open to everyone!
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Ben Madin from Ausvet on a clinical decision support tool for poultry in Vietnam and what can go wrong with expert elicitation
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Crawford Revie introducing a clinical decision support tool for livestock producers in Africa.
Tool available at www.engineeringforchange.org/solutions/pr...
Future options to build in LLMs rather than questionnaire based
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Amazing keynote by Lis Alban on her experiences working as an epidemiologist in the livestock industry. And comparing and contrasting academic vs applied research. Really insightful comments that really resonated with me! Fantastic to see the impacts of her research over the years
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#ISVEE17 last day starts with a dedication to Theresa Bernardo, who we lost unexpectedly this year
Tze-Hoong Chua: how much rabies vaccination required for herd immunity (HI) to rabies in dogs in Singapore? Singapore is rabies free but at-risk population on coastal fish farms are annually vaccinated. 70% HI target will be reached within 2 years of vaccination program.
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#ISVEE17 session on epi in a social world starts with Ellen Boyd on municipal rat management
Low priority, need to focus on high risk areas. Little evaluations of programs, and those evaluated were unsuccessful. Need a systems approach
Jess Bridgen: How granular does movement data need to be when modelling large-scale epidemics?
Less granular network results in more dispersed outbreak with greater number of farms involved but overall outbreak size similar.
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Oonagh Pretorius: models for African swine fever in South Africa. Big effort obtaining data from noncommercial pig farmers. Eight official languages!! Model is next step.
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Chris Jewell. Can we make a toolkit for rapid development of epi models to improve transparency and reproducibility?
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Christopher Davis - a spatially explicit stochastic disease transmission model for highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks in Great Britain.
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