Understand the relevance and complexity of the wildlife-livestock interface for disease transmission and the main risk factors and impacts.
Learn about the epidemiological procedures and tools used to manage animal infections at the wildlife-livestock interface.
Receive face to face training from leading international experts in this field.
Attain deeper knowledge on infection monitoring, surveillance and management approaches.
Gain experience in problem solving and decision making in relation to scenarios of shared infections at the wildlife-livestock interface.
Participate in practical work in surveillance and management, based on case studies and technical visits.
Engage and network with both international lecturers and students specialising in disease at the wildlife-livestock interface.
Overview of intervention options: advantages and drawbacks
Introduction to the practical
Session I: Monitoring and surveillance
Presentation of results of Session I and discussion
Wildlife-related risks in intensive and extensive farming
Ecological impacts of interventions
Session II: Management approaches
For participation in the full course programme lectures and practicals, candidates can apply online at the following address: http://www.admission.iamz.ciheam.org/en/
The course will be held at IAMZ-CIHEAM in Zaragoza from 26 to 30 November 2018.
Application deadlines:
10 September 2018 - if you need a visa or intend to apply for a grant to attend the course.
5 November 2018 - for candidates not requiring a visa and not applying for a grant.
Registration fees for the course amount to 500 euro. This sum covers tuition fees only.
Candidates from CIHEAM member countries (Albania, Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey) may apply for a limited number of full or partial scholarships offered by the organising institutions covering registration fees, travel and accommodation.
Candidates from other countries who require financial support should apply directly to other national or international institutions.
It is compulsory for participants to have medical insurance valid for Spain. Proof of insurance cover must be given at the beginning of the course. Those who so wish may participate in a collective insurance policy taken out by the Organisation, upon payment of the stipulated sum.
Germán Cáceres is a veterinarian graduated from the Veterinary School of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1999.
After 4 years devoted to medicine and surgery of large and small animals, he moved to the United Kingdom and worked for DEFRA
(Meat Hygiene Service) as a veterinary surgeon in relation to notifiable disease surveillance, meat hygiene and animal welfare
in slaughter houses. Once back in Spain again, he started his work for the Ministry of Agriculture in 2007 as part of the Official
Veterinary Services. Since then, he has been involved in different activities related to animal health management at national and
international level. He currently occupies a post in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as head of service within the
animal disease epidemiology unit being involved, generally speaking, in risk assessment, risk communication and risk management activities.
His main responsibilities include the design and coordination of monitoring and surveillance systems applied to wildlife and domestic animal d
iseases and zoonosis, contingency planning, field veterinarian's biosecurity and pig farm biosecurity, among others. In particular, he is in charge
of diseases for which the livestock-wildlife interface plays a crucial role such as African swine fever, classical swine fever and Aujeszky disease.
Daniel Fernández de Luco graduated and obtained his doctorate in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Zaragoza. He teaches "Histology and Pathological Anatomy" in the
Veterinary Faculty of Zaragoza University. His work is dedicated mainly to studying wildlife pathology, focusing on health status surveillance in game animals in Aragon with the
financing of the regional government. Special interests include chamois pestivirus, sarcoptic mange in Iberian wild goat, brucellosis in wild ruminants, tuberculosis in wild boar
and deer, etc.
Prof. Christian Gortázar holds a PhD from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He is professor of Animal Health at the National Wildlife Research Institute IREC (CSIC-Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha). He has supervised more than 25 PhD theses and is co-author of more than 300 scientific papers. His research combines ecology and veterinary sciences in order to provide solutions to diseases shared with wildlife. At present he heads SaBio (Health and Biotechnology) research group.
Dr. Jorge Ramón López Olvera Works as assistant lecturer at the Wildlife Ecology and Health group and the Servei d'Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge de la Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, in Spain. He obtained his Degree in Veterinary Medicine in 1999, and earned a PhD in 2004, achieving the PhD Award of his year. After gaining post-doctoral teaching and research experience at the Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU in Valencia (Spain) and in the National Wildlife Research Institute in Ciudad Real (Spain), he obtained his current position in November 2008. His expertise focuses on wildlife diseases and their management. His main research topics are shared diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface and management of wildlife-human conflicts are and he transfers this knowledge to society through teaching and advisory services to public administrations.
María Cruz Arnal has a degree in Biological Sciences and in Veterinary Medicine and holds a PhD in Animal Pathology developed at the Department of Animal Pathology of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She works at the Veterinary Faculty as a lecturer in Animal Pathology and Histology. She has been involved in game wildlife, monitoring diseases since 2000 and collaborates regularly with the local administration researching into the effects of diseases wildlife mainly in shared diseases with domestic livestock. She participates in courses for science students interested in wildlife diseases, informative meetings for administration technicians and other events related to wildlife diseases.
Professor Richard Delahay is a wildlife biologist working for the National Wildlife Management Centre (NWMC) of the UKs Animal and Plant Health Agency.
His areas of research expertise are in the epidemiology and management of disease in wildlife and bovine tuberculosis in particular.
He oversees field studies on bovine TB dynamics in wild badger populations, and provides advice to UK Government departments on TB management.
Current research interests include the spatio-temporal dynamics of TB infection in badgers and cattle, social behaviour and disease spread, and
field deployment of TB vaccines in badgers. He co-ordinates a strategic research partnership with Exeter University where he has an Honorary Visiting Chair.
He has supervised 16 PhD students, is an author on over 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is the principal editor of a book on managing disease in wild mammals.
Gareth Enticott is a Reader in Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University. His research focuses on biosecurity, practices of environmental regulation and governance, and scientific controversies in animal health. His main focus is on the ongoing controversy surrounding bovine Tuberculosis in the UK, as well as the management of the disease in New Zealand. His work has helped inform policy on bovine Tuberculosis in England and Wales.
Ezio Ferroglio graduated in veterinary medicine in 1992, then gained his PhD in "Epidemiology and control of zoonosis" at the University of Bologna in 1997. He is currently Full Professor of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Turin, Italy. He became a member of the European Veterinary Parasitology College in September 2003 and of the European College of Veterinary Public Health in July 2005. Since 1999 he has been involved in more than 70 research projects relating to the host-parasite interactions with an emphasis on the impact of diseases on wildlife, wildlife-livestock interface, vectors and public health.
Freya A. P. Smith studied veterinary medicine at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and Conservation Medicine (BSc) at Liverpool University in the UK. After qualifying as a veterinarian she continued her studies with an MSc in Veterinary Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and RVC) and a PhD (Institute of Zoology and Imperial College) investigating the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and its epidemiology in the UK. She now works as a veterinary epidemiologist for the Animal and Plant Health Agency. She is based at Woodchester Park in south west England which is home to a long term study of TB epidemiology in badgers (currently her main area of research).
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