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DISCONTOOLSDisease Control ToolsTelmo
ValinhasProject ManagerCNA Mirror Groups
Meeting, February 27th, 2008
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DISCONTOOLS

• Concept
• Objectives
• Working Plan and Structure
• Time table

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Concept

• European Technology Platform for Global Animal
  Health (ETPGAH) December 2004
• Develop and deliver the most effective tools for
  controlling animal diseases that are of major
  importance to Europe and to the rest of the
  world, thereby improving human and animal health,
  food safety and quality, animal welfare and
  market access, contributing to achieve the
  Millennium Development Goals

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Concept

• ETPGAH Vision Paper August 2005
• Strategic Research Agenda (61 recommendations)
  May 2006
• Action Plan (28 major activity areas) July 2007
• DISCONTOOLS delivers part of the Action Plan

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Concept

• Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) calls for
  research proposals related to Knowledge Based
  Bio-Economy platforms
• Optimising research efforts for the development
  of the most effective tools for controling
  infectious animal diseases call designed to
  build on the ETPGAH work
• IFAH-Europe submitted a Coordination Support
  Action (CSA) DISease CONtrol TOOLS
• Funded over a four year period (978,660)
• Starting in March 1st, 2008

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Objectives

• Primary Objective
• Enable research to be optimised by public and
  private funders in a more effective manner
• Enable new and improved tools to be developed and
  delivered
• Control of the major diseases of animals,
  including zoonoses

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Objectives

• Complimentary work strands
• Provide a validated database and peer review
  methodology in order to prioritise infectious
  animal diseases
• Gap analysis to identify areas where
• information and knowledge of the disease is
  deficient
• Current tools are lacking, inadequate or could be
  improved

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Objectives

• Complimentary work strands
• 3. Identify current and new technological tools
  that may be used to improve the ability to
  control infectious animal diseases
• Review of existing arrangements by stakeholders
• Development of methodologies to identify and
  evaluate nem tecnhology

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Working Plan and Structure

• Interaction of 5 synergistic work packages (WP)
• WP1
• Establish and maintain effective management and
  coordination of the project involving all
  stakeholders
• Appropriate governance structure agreed by Animal
  Health stakeholders

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Working Plan and Structure

• WP2
• Prioritise diseases
• Assemble up to date information from experts
  (drawn from stakeholders and individuals)
• Place on a public website
• Invite input
• Update via approval of experts
• Living and evolving database

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Working Plan and Structure

• WP3
• Gap analysis of the priority diseases
• Invite stakeholder representatives to decide on
  the critical gaps
• Aim research at filling the gaps

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Disease Criteria - 1

• EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RISK
• Speed of spread
• Number of species involved
• Persistence of infectious agent
• Spreading potential to susceptible populations
• Wildlife diseases risk potential threat to animal
  health and public health
• Disease Knowledge
• Wildlife diseases that are a threat
• Dynamic (temporal, spatial, species variability)
• IMPACT ON WIDER SOCIETY
• Disease Impact on Production
• Economic direct impact (including cumulative cost
  eg enzootic vs epizootic)
• Economic indirect impact (social, trade)
• Impact on specific production and supply channels
• Security of food supply/Benefit for developing
  world

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Disease Criteria - 2

• IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH
• Impact on Public Health and Food Safety
• Risk of occurrence
• Impact of occurrence
• IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• Impact on International Trade and EC trade due
  to existing regulations
• CONTROL MEASURES
• Effective prevention and control practices
• Tools for surveillance
• Tools for prevention crisis
• Tools for control and implementation
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• Success of prevention and control in other
  countries
• Technology (Vaccine/Treatment) / Tool
  Availability
• Commercial Diagnostic Tools Availability

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Prioritisation Outcome

• Prioritisation model on public website
• Invite input to scores for each criterion
• Experts evaluate input and propose scores
• Stakeholders agree priorities
• Priorities will change over time model allows
  for this
• Target research achieve early breakthroughs
• Potentially huge benefits if we learn how to
  control serious zoonoses

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Working Plan and Structure

• WP4
• Identify and evaluate new technologies
• Horizon scan for new technologies
• Human health, biotechnology, crop protection,
  nanotechnology, chemistry, biocides, etc.
• Ensure deployment in the animal health sector as
  early as possible
• WP5
• Ensure the effective communication and
  dissemination of information from the project

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Working Plan and Structure

• Main features of the project
• Stakeholders
• Involvement of a wide range (EU, International)
• Active participation in the governance of the
  project
• Contribution from research through to delivery

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Working Plan and Structure

• Main features of the project
• Assists
• DG Research and the ERA-Net in prioritising
  research
• DG Sanco in the context of the Community Animal
  Health Policy CAHP
• EFSA and ECDC in attempting to prioritise
  zoonoses and to look at emerging zoonoses

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Working Plan and Structure
Stakeholder Forum
Agree, comment, support
Secretariat
Prepare, support, admin (WP1, WP5)
Advisory Council
Guide, endorse, support
Monitor, review, decide, approve (WP1, WP5)
Project Management Board
Working Group WP2
Working Group WP3
Working Group WP4
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Time table
Group Date Action Comments
Stakeholder Forum September 2008 1st SF meeting Discussion of the project, structure and themes
Interim Board May 2008 1st Interim Board meeting Terms of Reference, prepare composition of WGs, working rules and procedures
Advisory Council June 2008 1st AC meeting Confirm the PMB and set tasks of WGs, Endorse DISCONTOOLS
Secretariat August 2008 Web site activated Access to web site
Working Group November 2008 1st WP2 WG meeting Tasks, working rules and procedures
Working Group November 2008 1st WP3 WG meeting Tasks, working rules and procedures
Working Group March 2009 1st WP4 WG meeting Tasks, working rules and procedures
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DISCONTOOLS

• Lets work to fight
  infectious animal diseases.
• Thank You!
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