Statistical analysis of Surveillance data

Northern Territory DPI (2014)

Product registration and efficacy reviews

Australian Pesticides & Veterinary Medicines Authority, and various private companies (2013 – present)

Sample size calculation for banana freckle sentinel program

Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines (2015)

Danish EpiLab

Denmark

Angus Cameron and Evan Sergeant were amongst the first visiting scientists to be invited to work at the Danish EpiLab. Their research focused on the development and enhancement of quantitative methods for analysis of complex surveillance to demonstrate freedom from disease. The key product of this research, stochastic scenario-tree modelling, has become one of the standard tools used globally for the design and evaluation of surveillance.

Caterpillar research

University of Queensland (2013 – 2016)

External Research Review

University of Melbourne (2015)

ESCAS Training

Australia Livestock Export Corporation – LiveCorp (2015 – 2016)

RBS Training Turin

IZS Turin, Italy (2013)

New Zealand Veterinary Association Conference

New Zealand Veterinary Association (2013)

Diagnostic tests and surveillance training, Singapore

Singapore AVA (2013)

Statistics Training for University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne (2013)

Case studies for wildlife Epidemiology

Murdoch University (2015)

Statistics training for AVI SIG

Australian Veterinary Assocation Limited (2013)

AVI Statistics Shortcourse

Australian Veterinary Assocation Limited (2013)

Risk-based Surveillance for disease freedom: Master Class

Sweden (2014)

Omnísyan Training

United States Department of Agriculture (2015)

Surveillance training for DAFWA

Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (2016)

Information system workshop, Bangkok

World Organisation for Animal Health (2015)

Aquatic Animal Health Training Scheme

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (2014)

Provision of GIS training for C2.3 AIP-EID Program

Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (2014)

Information System Workshop

Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists (2015)

ASEAN Information Systems Training, Bangkok

Food and Agricultural Organisation (2015)

Canadian Information System Workshop

Canadian Food Inspection Agency (2015)

Animal Identification and Traceability System for Thai Black Beef

Food and Agricultural Organisation (2013 – 2016)

World Animal Health Information System

World Organisation for Animal Health (2005 – present)

Ausvet implemented the WAHIS, managing disease status data for all OIE member countries, based on the specifications determined by OIE. Ausvet has provided an ongoing service for the update and management of the global spatial dataset of national and first-level administrative boundaries.

ASEAN Regional Animal Health Information System (ARAHIS)

AusAID / OIE (2004 – 2015)

This system is used by authorised representatives of members of ASEAN countries, for the purpose of sharing timely information on livestock diseases, to improve regional disease control. To ensure the integrity of the disease information managed by the system, access is restricted by password. This system was designed and implemented by Ausvet with the cooperation of the ASEAN sectoral working group on livestock, and with support from the Australian Government (AusAID), OIE (head office in Paris, regional office in Tokyo, and regional coordination unit in Bangkok) and ACIL. The system builds on and extends the functions of existing regional animal health information systems, including the OIE’s South East Asian Foot and Mouth Disease campaign and the Animal Health and Production Information System for ASEAN (AHPISA).

Livestock Data Link

Meat and Livestock Australia (2014)

Bottom-up surveillance system design and pilot implementation

Canadian Food Inspection Agency (2015 – 2017)

Ausvet has been working with CFIA to explore the application of the bottom-up surveillance design and Omnisyan integrated surveillance information management system. A series of national surveillance workshops were held followed by a pilot study using Omnisyan to support the integration and analysis of data from the British Columbia Salmon industry to quantify the confidence in freedom from disease.

National Bee Pest Surveillance Program

Plant Health Australia (2014)

The African Union’s Animal Resource Information Manager (ARIS 2)

The African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) (2012)

The African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) is a specialized technical office of the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union Commission. AU-IBAR’s mandate is to support and coordinate the utilization of livestock, fisheries and wildlife as resources for both human wellbeing and economic development in the member states of the African Union. In order to achieve its objectives, AU-IBAR requires qualitative, complete and timely animal resources information for monitoring, planning and decision making. In line with its mandate and Strategic Plan, AU-IBAR developed an information system known as the Animal Resources Information System version 2 (ARIS 2), designed by Ausvet and implemented locally. The system’s goal is to help position AU-IBAR at the continental level, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) at the regional level and the Member States (MSs) at the local level as the core and reliable sources of comprehensive animal resources information in Africa.

ARIS 2 is a tool to enhance the capacities of the RECs and MSs to collect, collate and analyse animal resources data in a timely manner. ARIS 2 improves AU-IBAR’s role and capacity as a technical advisory body and centre of excellence to the RECs and MSs in the field of animal resources in Africa on the one hand, and better positions the RECs and MSs to design and harmonise policies and implement animal resources practices based on timely available, reliable and up-to-date information on the other.