EuFMD

The critical role played by Veterinary Paraprofessionals in delivering essential animal health services for smallholder farmers (SHFs) demands up to date technical competences and the development of enabling business environments for the provision of quality services and supplies. In key geographies of Africa and Asia there is the need to improve Veterinary Paraprofessionals technical and business skills and to support the establishment of efficient and profitable livestock value chain with benefits to all stakeholders at national levels.

Learn more: www.fao.org/eufmd/training/vete…raprofessionals/en/

The critical role played by Veterinary Paraprofessionals in delivering essential animal health services for smallholder farmers (SHFs) demands up to date technical competences and the development of enabling business environments for the provision of quality services and supplies. In key geographies of Africa and Asia there is the need to improve Veterinary Paraprofessionals technical and business skills and to support the establishment of efficient and profitable livestock value chain with benefits to all stakeholders at national levels.

Learn more: http://www.fao.org/eufmd/training/veterinary-paraprofessionals/en/

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast
In preparation for our new online course, Rodrigo Nova, EuFMD Training Technical Coordinator talks with Gary Flory, Agricultural & Stormwater Program Manager for the Valley Regional Office of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, about Culling and disposal for FAST Diseases; 2) Depopulation for FAST Diseases; 3) Culling/Disposal, cleaning and disinfection in a FAST Disease;




Rodrigo is a veterinarian working at the EuFMD as Training Technical Coordinator for Pillar I activities. His work focus on providing training for Member Nations and supporting the development of veterinary capacity in countries the EuFMD supports. He studied veterinary medicine at the University of Concepcion, Chile, where he later worked in official controls in red meat industry and later on, as a veterinary consultant in food safety for dairy and meat industry. He was awarded a PhD in Food Microbiology from the University of Nottingham (UK) ​​​and a Post Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Public Health from the University of Ulster (UK). There, he was appointed as a member of the academic staff at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science University of Nottingham, where he developed the veterinary public health curriculum.



Gary Flory founded G.A. Flory Consulting​​​, a global consulting firm, to help clients with a range of services including animal disease and natural disaster response, agricultural emergency planning, and emergency response training. He has been a lead investigator on numerous research projects focused on providing new tools in the fight against animal diseases and natural disasters affecting agriculture. Gary has conducted training, given presentations, and deployed on numerous animal disease outbreaks around the country and internationally to a number of countries including the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Tunisia, Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Azerbaijan. He also serves as a technical reviewer and Subject Matter Expert on agricultural issues for a variety of organizations including the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Gary currently serves on FAO’s African Swine Fever Global Pool of Expertise.

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast
Drs Seabrook and Nardi introduce for the first time TOM, the new Training Management System developed by the EuFMD, describing the uses and benefit to countries and learners and explaining of competency frameworks
Marcello Nardi works as Chief Learning Officer at EuFMD. Learning professional with experience in training delivery, design, evaluation of impact, needs assessment and competency mappings. He holds a title in Communication Studies and post-graduate degrees in Training Management, Evaluation of the Training Impact and Microlearning design.

Leah is a veterinarian who has been working in the public health regulatory veterinary medicine field since 2000 and training since 2010. She has designed and delivered classroom and virtual training for veterinarians and inspectors. Over the last few years this work led her into the area of competency development and how using competency frameworks can drive needs assessment and ultimately program and course design to support capacity building within organizations.

Erika Chenais, epidemiologist, doctor in veterinary medicine and a Foot and Mouth Disease and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases emergency preparedness specialist with the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

As a part of our work towards improving preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases crises by Member nations and across Europe, the Emergency Preparedness Network facilitate networking among emergency preparedness experts, contingency planners and between the public and private sector.

The Emergency Preparedness Network allows contingency planners to share information and experience regarding topics related to Foot and Mouth Disease and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases, including topics such as modelling, emergency vaccination and Contingency Planning, with the purpose to better prepared for outbreaks of these diseases. The network also allows us to provide up-to-date information on new development and tools concerning Emergency Preparedness.

As an example, one of the latest activities of the network was a workshop sharing information and discussing emergency preparedness for a Foot and Mouth Disease and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases.

You are welcome to sign up to join the network via the v-learning site!

Etienne Chevanne, FMD risk management specialist working for the EuFMD talks about what is "Risk mapping and mitigation", how it works and why it is so important.

Dr Michael Eschbaumer, epidemiologist veterinarian, Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease at the FLI (Germany) talks about the importance of the creation of the Laboratory Biorisk Standards for laboratories working with FMD.

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast
Drs Krstevski & Romey discuss about Proficiency of Test Service, one of the EU- Reference Laboratory activities. It is organized and delivered annually to promote harmonization of the FMD diagnosis and to ensure proficiency and quality of FMD testing across EU member countries.

Dr Krstevski is an associate Professor in Infectious diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje, North Macedonia. He works with EuFMD on the part of the program focused on improved preparedness, coordination and networking of the laboratories in the South Eastern Europe region.

Dr Romey is assistant Ingenior at ANSES, OIE/FAO/EU FMD Reference Laboratory, Virology Unit, Animal Health Laboratory. She is also an expert in virology diagnostic (molecular, serological and virological diagnostic), Proficiency Test coordinator and FMD EURL Technical manager.

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L. Comtet - A new pan FMDV DAS antigen ELISA using multi-serotype-reactive monoclonal by European Commission for the Control of FMD