3rd Module on Risk Based Surveillance and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) protocols

A series of trainings over several years have been held under the CaribVET network, principally with the support of APHIS and CIRAD scientists and experts to use GIS and spatial analysis to locate spatial data for each country and develop risk-based surveillance of HPAI for each participating Caribbean countries.

An HPAI surveillance protocol for each country will be finalized upon completion of the workshop with follow up during annual CARIBVET technical meetings and discussions..

The first Train-the-Trainer Workshop on GIS for Animal Health Surveillance using the C-VIS platform of tools was organized in November 2015. The second workshop was held in the DR (September 2016).

This third workshop is a follow-up that will focus on Risk Mapping methodology, advanced use of QGIS and will introduce principles for design of risk-based surveillance intending to optimize disease surveillance plans and to better allocate (often limited) resources. A SME from USDA-APHIS-CEAH is requested under this project.