FAO China ECTAD Highlights

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONSFAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD)

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They visited the Jiangxi Normal University’s Poyang Lake wetland laboratory where they were impressed with the technology. They also visited local duck farms with a team of experts from Okalahoma University and Jiangxi Normal University. Okalahoma University is partnering with Jiangxi Normal University to conduct an ecology study using transmitters to track duck movements. They also visited an egg wholesale market and the biggest poultry wholesale market in Nanchang, where they spoke to traders and buyers and gained a preliminary understandingon some of the poultry value chains, local consumption preferences and recentchanges in the production systems. Reductions in prices of meat ducks and farmed wildlife coupled with higher prices and demand for duck eggs had resulted in significant changes.

Advanced veterinary epidemiology training on risk-based surveillance and risk analysis for Chinese university academics was held at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, Hubei Province from 9 to 13 January 2015. It was the third training for the Chinese university academics and the focus was on strengthening capacity among university academicson risk based approaches to surveillance, disease control as required for their work on national programs.

Around 50 academic staff from 17 national universities attended the five-day training. Prof Ian Robertson and Dr CaiChang delivered the training, with assistance from Dr Li Yin from CAHEC, Dr Guo Fusheng and Mr Tang Hao from FAO China ECTAD Office.

Participants demonstrated keen interest in the training topics and were actively engaging in the discussion sessions. They also expressed the need for an in-depth training in the future.

Dr Wantanee Kalpravidh, Regional Manager and Dr Peter Black, Deputy Regional Manager of FAO ECTAD RAP will visit China from 2 to 6 February 2015.

The Module 1 of the China FETPV will be launched in Qingdao on 30 March 2015.

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Upcoming activities!

Ducks in Poyang Lake

Trainees were having a discussion during the training

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Advanced veterinary epidemiology training on risk-based surveillance and risk analysis for Chinese university academics

There is potential for FAO to collaborate with local universities and animal health authorities in areas of mutual interest.

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First joint workshop between CFETPV and university academics networks

The China Field Epidemiology Training Program for Veterinarians (CFETPV) and university academics networks conducted their first joint workshop in Jingzhou, Hubei Province from 21st to 25th November 2016. The first two days focused on case study development, while the remaining three days focused on the application of value chain analysis. The workshop was organized by the Veterinary Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre (CAHEC) with FAO’s support. It aimed at facilitating the sustainability of veterinary epidemiology capacity building by developing curriculums, course materials and the case bank with Chinese context, and enhancing participants’ understanding on value chain analysis to promote its application in China. Around 20 participants attended the 5-day workshop, including university academics from China Agricultural University, Huazhong Agricultural University, South China Agricultural

University, Shandong Agricultural University, Henan Agricultural University and Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, and Chinese trainers and graduates from the CFETPV program.

During the workshop, participants reviewed ‘the basic veterinary epidemiology training manual’, which was developed by the CFETPV Chinese trainers in 2016, and discussed the workplan for the course materials and case study development in 2017. The last three-day workshop also invited Prof Dirk Pfeiffer and Dr Guillaume Fournie to attend. Prof Pfeiffer gave a lecture on the brief introduction of value chain analysis (VCA), and some international examples were also shared by Dr Fournie. Most participants expressed that their understanding on the linkage among value chain mapping, risk assessment, network analysis and value chain analysis was improved. Several participatory sessions were conducted to stimulate participants’ thinking about how to apply VCA for the disease control in China. Through the organization of such joint activity, the linkage between the university academics and CFETPV networks has been strengthened.

Two Field Epidemiology Training Programs for veterinary and medical professionals (CFETPV and China Field Epidemiology Training Program [CFETP]) aimed to assist the Chinese government in training epidemiologists in support of zoonotic disease control and prevention in animal and human sectors. Although both programs are running separately, joint collaborations to promote One Health application in China deemed to be necessary. To further strengthen the collaborations, FAO called a meeting with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and US CDC on 14 November 2016. Dr Vincent Martin, FAO Representative, Dr Guo Fusheng and Mr Tang Hao from FAO China ECTAD Office discussed future joint initiatives with Dr Linda Quick, USCDC Resident Advisor and Dr Lu Mei, CFETP Project Manager. Over the short but productive meeting, a number of proposals were made, including conducting the Train of Trainer Workshops, workshop on One Health, frontline joint-training for the province, trainer resources exchanges, etc. Long-term collaborations, such as integrating the CFETP/CFETPV joint program into the South-South Cooperation, sharing and supporting Africa, engaging the neighbouring countries had also been discussed.

In the aim of strengthening the collaboration with public health sector, Dr Kang Jingli from the China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre (CAHEC) and Tang Hao from FAO China ECTAD Office attended the TEPHINET (Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network) 8th Bi-Regional Conference from 28 November to 2 December in Siam Reap, Cambodia. This was the

Meeting at FAO China Representation © FAO

Discussions during the workshop © FAO

CFETPV and CFETP planned for future joint collaborations to promote One Health application

FAO China ECTAD Highlights

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONSFAO Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD)

©FAO, 2016

WWW.FAO.ORG No. 2-151C Tayuan Diplomatic Office Building No. 14 Liang Ma He Nan Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R.China Tel: (86 10) 8532 3634 | Fax: (86 10) 8532 3681

They visited the Jiangxi Normal University’s Poyang Lake wetland laboratory where they were impressed with the technology. They also visited local duck farms with a team of experts from Okalahoma University and Jiangxi Normal University. Okalahoma University is partnering with Jiangxi Normal University to conduct an ecology study using transmitters to track duck movements. They also visited an egg wholesale market and the biggest poultry wholesale market in Nanchang, where they spoke to traders and buyers and gained a preliminary understandingon some of the poultry value chains, local consumption preferences and recentchanges in the production systems. Reductions in prices of meat ducks and farmed wildlife coupled with higher prices and demand for duck eggs had resulted in significant changes.

Advanced veterinary epidemiology training on risk-based surveillance and risk analysis for Chinese university academics was held at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, Hubei Province from 9 to 13 January 2015. It was the third training for the Chinese university academics and the focus was on strengthening capacity among university academicson risk based approaches to surveillance, disease control as required for their work on national programs.

Around 50 academic staff from 17 national universities attended the five-day training. Prof Ian Robertson and Dr CaiChang delivered the training, with assistance from Dr Li Yin from CAHEC, Dr Guo Fusheng and Mr Tang Hao from FAO China ECTAD Office.

Participants demonstrated keen interest in the training topics and were actively engaging in the discussion sessions. They also expressed the need for an in-depth training in the future.

Dr Wantanee Kalpravidh, Regional Manager and Dr Peter Black, Deputy Regional Manager of FAO ECTAD RAP will visit China from 2 to 6 February 2015.

The Module 1 of the China FETPV will be launched in Qingdao on 30 March 2015.

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Upcoming activities!

Ducks in Poyang Lake

Trainees were having a discussion during the training

No. 2-151C Tayuan Diplomatic Office Building No. 14 Liang Ma He Nan Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R.China

Tel: (86 10) 8532 3634 | Fax: (86 10) 8532 3681

Advanced veterinary epidemiology training on risk-based surveillance and risk analysis for Chinese university academics

There is potential for FAO to collaborate with local universities and animal health authorities in areas of mutual interest.

No. 2-151C Tayuan Diplomatic Office Building, No. 14 Liang Ma He Nan Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P.R.China Tel: (86 10) 8532 3634 | Fax: (86 10) 8532 3681E-mail: FAO-CN@fao.org

first time that the CFETPV representatives participated in the TEPHINET event which was a network of 65 field epidemiology training programs (FETPs) in 90 countries around the world. A side meeting was held among the TEPHINET CEO, key staff of FETP-China, CFETPV, FETP-Thailand, FETPV-Thailand, USCDC, and FAO to discuss how to strengthen the collaborations between FETPVs and TEPHINET in the future.

As a Member of the Expert Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), who was appointed by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Dr Guo Fusheng from FAO China ECTAD Office attended the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Expert Committee Meeting in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from 1 to 2 November 2016. In recent years, AMR has become a globally concerned issue. This meeting mainly focused on the discussion of the drafted papers, including Principles and Approaches to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance in Hong Kong; Overview of Antimicrobial Resistance in Farm Animal and Food in Hong Kong; Overview of Antimicrobial Resistance in Community and Healthcare Setting in Hong Kong, and Overview of AMR Surveillance, Health Promotion, Education and Evaluation to combat AMR. During the meeting, Dr Guo also delivered a presentation entitled “United Nations AMR action plan, regulation, projects and activities in China”.

The China Field Epidemiology Training Program for Veterinarians (CFETPV) keeps facilitating the veterinary epidemiology development at different levels since its launching in 2010. Some provinces use their own resources to develop their institutional and personnel capacities with support of the program, Shanghai is one of them.

The directors of Shanghai Animal Disease Control Centre (ACDC) became more cognizant of the importance of veterinary epidemiology to veterinary public health services after they attended the veterinary epidemiology executive trainings (FETPV-E). Since 2012, Shanghai ACDC has been sending young professionals continually to attend the CFETPV 2-year core course. It has 3 graduates and 1 trainee up to now. The CFETPV trainees played an important role in training their local staff. 7 epidemiology trainings were conducted in the past four years, attended by more than 200 participants. Shanghai ACDC also organized their provincial veterinary epidemiology

executive training in 2015 to strengthen district ACDCs directors’ understanding of veterinary epidemiology. It was the first provincial FETPV-E training in China. In addition, Shanghai ACDC established their epidemiology team cross departments by using the graduates resources that built up gradually through the attendance of CFEPTV. This team is now active in the fields of the outbreak investigation and epidemiological study to provide sound evidence for animal health services in Shanghai. Their performance also received recognition from Shanghai government and was awarded as “The 2016 excellent vanguard of Shanghai City”.

Shanghai ACDC also actively promotes the applications of veterinary epidemiology. More than 20 outbreak investigations were conducted, including bovine tuberculosis, sheep brucellosis, pig Pseudorabies, piglet diarrhea and H7N9, etc. Several studies have been done to help Shanghai pig breeding farms to eradicate Pseudorabies. In the aim of improving H7N9 risk management of Shanghai, it also conducted live bird markets trade network study by adopting value chain analysis approach. In addition, Shanghai ACDC makes the best use of epidemiology to provide technical supports for animal disease control decision marking, such as surveillance plan, control strategies, etc. What is more, Shanghai ACDC applies ‘One health’ approaches to address public health risks. It closely works with Shanghai CDC, not only for emergency issues such as H1N1 and H7N9, but also established regular communication and collaboration mechanism to work together on the control of brucellosis, rabies and other zoonoses.

Veterinary epidemiology roll-out to provinces - Shanghai ACDC is engaging in capacity building and practices

1. Mr Tang Hao from FAO China ECTAD Office was invited to attend and present on the One Health EcoHealth Congress inMelbourne, Australia from 3 to 7 December 2016.

2. Dr Guo Fusheng will attend the Conference on Agriculture Development in Central Asia in Shenzhen, Guangdong Provincefrom 5 to 7 December 2016.

3. Dr Guo Fusheng will participate in the Project Formulation Workshop on FAO-China South-South Cooperation Project onTransboundary Animal Disease Control in Greater Mekong Sub-Region in Bangkok from 19 to 21 December 2016.

4. Mr Tang Hao will attend the CAHEC annual workshop for Veterinary Epidemiology Strategic Development in Qingdao on 20December 2016.

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FAO China ECTAD attendance at the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Expert Committee meeting

Shanghai ACDC DG Dr Liu Peihong attended the FETPV-E © FAO