DECIDE & GBADs Seminar Series
The DECIDE & GBADs Seminar Series is a joint initiative designed to share knowledge, present ongoing work, and highlight synergies between the DECIDE and GBADs projects. These public, free-to-attend seminars feature speakers from both projects as well as invited external experts whose work bridges the interests of both initiatives.
Recordings and details of past seminars are available below.
Webinar #10 - The burden of disease in aquaculture: the global perspective and national insights
The first presentation was delivered by Edgar Brun, a renowned veterinarian and expert in fish health and welfare at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. Brun provided a global overview of aquaculture as a rapidly expanding livestock sector, now supplying more aquatic food for human consumption than capture fisheries.
The global perspective was followed by a national case study presented by Cecilie Sviland Walde, a researcher specialising in the economics of animal health, also at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute. Her presentation focused on pancreas disease (PD) in Norwegian salmon farming, using economic theory to frame disease control as a collective action dilemma.
Webinar #9 – Tools for decision-making: turning data into actionable information
The session began with a joint presentation by João Afonso, DVM, PhD, Honorary Research Fellow at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Sara Babo Martins, PhD, Honorary Research Fellow at the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK, from GBADs on their work on the AMU/AMR dashboard.
Charlotte Doidge from DECIDE has continued the session, presenting Living Lab user design aspects of the Cattle Barometer.
The webinar then continued with a presentation by Stan Jourquin from DECIDE, who talked about the Cattle Barometer tool development and the technical work behind it.
Webinar #8 – Quantifying the impact of animal disease
Professor Ilias Kyriazakis, from Queen’s University Belfast, opened the session and presented on “Improve animal health to reduce livestock emissions: quantifying an open goal.”
Dr Di Mayberry, Principal Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, followed with a presentation on “Integrating greenhouse gas emissions into the Global Burden of Animal Diseases – Indonesian case study.”
Dr Angela Bearth, Senior Scientist at HF Partners, concluded the session with her talk on “Designing dashboards for risk communication and decision support to improve animal health – Insights from the social sciences.”
Webinar #7 – Data Availability, Requirements and Limitations in Global Animal Health Research and Decision-making
The session began with Emma-Jane Murray, Health and Agricultural Sciences PhD Scholar, University College Dublin School of Veterinary Medicine, who presented a use case demonstrating how animal health data from Ireland was used to determine cattle biomass.
Next, Camille Delavenne, Consultant (DVM, MSc), EpiMundi, addressed the challenges associated with reusing such data, particularly the lack of metadata.
Finally, Kassy Raymond, PhD Candidate in Computational Sciences, University of Guelph, Canada, presented solutions for improving data reuse through the creation of metadata.
Webinar #6 – Monitoring animal diseases and public health: the value of visualisation tools and surveillance data on poultry and swine farms
Cecilia Baumberger, a veterinarian from University of Buenos Aires kicked off the seminar with her presentation on “Exposure practices to animal-origin Influenza A Virus at the animal-human interface in poultry and swine backyard farms“.
Next, Dr. Maria Costa of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) shared her insights with “A new data visualisation tool for continued monitoring and surveillance of pig abattoir data” presentation.
Webinar #5 – Advanced Health Management in Salmon Farming: Data, tools and economic impact
Dr. Cecilie Walde from the Norwegian Veterinary Institute kicked off the seminar with her presentation on “The Biological and Economic Impact of Delousing Farmed Atlantic Salmon in Norway.”
Next, Dr. Annette Boerlage of Scotland’s Rural College shared her insights with “Advanced Health Management in Salmon Farming: Data, Tools, and Economic Impact.”
The final presentation featured Dr Anne Meyer from Episystemic and the University of Liverpool, who delivered a flash talk titled “First Pass at Quantifying the All-Cause Disease Burden Borne by Shrimp Grow-Out Farmers in Indonesia.”
Webinar #4 – Data for Policy Making: Insights from GBADs and FVE’s Research and Policy Impact
The focus of the fourth GBADs & DECIDE webinar revolved around examining the extent to which the data gathered by researchers impacts policymaking and decision-making at the national and global level. Prof. Dr. Brecht Devleesschauwer (Sciensano) and Yael Dotan (FVE) shared their insights on strategies to enhance the influence of research and reduce the burden of animal diseases.
Webinar #3 – Estimations of greenhouse gasses emissions and the welfare burden of animal diseases: Exploring sustainability in livestock production
Armando Rivera Moncada (Université libre de Bruxelles), started the talk by introducing ‘Estimations of greenhouse gasses emissions’ facilitating a lively discussion after the presentations. After this first part, DECIDE member Beatriz Garcia Morante (IRTA) presented on the ‘welfare burden of animal diseases’ which supported the linkages between the two presentations.
Webinar #2 – The burden of endemic respiratory disease in pigs: developing farm-level tools to monitor pig health and improve disease control
With the common goal of developing decision-support tools to improve pig health management, Dr. Fernanda Dórea (SVA) and Marloes Boeters (UU) explored in this session how estimates of the economic burden of disease could improve the monitoring of pig health and disease control.
Dr. Fernanda Dórea and colleagues from the Swedish National Veterinary Institute have developed a tool for the monitoring of pig health and production performance using farm-level production data. In this session she shares which indicators appear most informative regarding the occurrence of diseases, and raise the question whether economic indicators could further improve the monitoring tool. Marloes Boeters from Utrecht University elaborates on her ongoing work on the economic burden of endemic respiratory and gastro-intestinal diseases in pigs and discusses recent findings from a systematic review on the economic impact of the porcine respiratory disease complex.
Webinar #1 – GBADs and DECIDE – exploring the burden of animal diseases and ranking of disease intervention
On Tuesday, 28 February 2023, DECIDE and GBADs hosted the first session of their joint online seminar series. Under the title “GBADs and DECIDE – exploring the burden of animal diseases and ranking of disease intervention” – DECIDE project coordinator Gerdien van Schaik (UU) and GBADs Programme director Jonathan Rushton (UoL) presented both projects and discussed their links and collaborations.