Today’s episode will cover Tackling emerging diseases with producer-driven monitoring systems.

“If we have an ASF outbreak tomorrow… Just having the [disease monitoring] system up and being able to communicate in a timely matter [is essential].” – Dr. Andreia Arruda.

Our guest is Dr. Andreia Arruda, another bright mind of the Global Swine Industry. Dr. Arruda is a veterinarian with a Masters from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Guelph. She, then, held a one-year research position at the University of Minnesota as a post-doc and in 2017 joined the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor.

What you will learn:

• Disease control programs and how do they work;
• Examples of disease monitoring programs;
• How she sees these platforms helping in the case of an emerging disease;
• Insights on how to make these programs sustainable in the long run;
• What separates successful swine professionals from those that are not.

Andreia’s favorite swine-related book: Diseases of Swine

Andreia’s favorite book unrelated to swine: The Paradox of Choice

Edited by Lauro Faccin