|
|
|
|
|
Dear readers,
This month we are reporting on the MOOD meetings held in May, and we share a few updates from the upcoming meetings in June, as well as the International Workshop in Trento (Italy). Check out the MOOD Science webinar speakers, latest publications and new appointments.
|
|
|
Mapping the risk of Avian Influenza in Europe
As part of the MOOD tools and services for the Epidemic Intelligence platform under construction, Dr Maria Vincenti Gonzalez (ULB, Belgium) has announced the activities related to risk mapping techniques based on Species Distribution Models (SDMs), which will be applied to disease distribution data with a careful selection of predictor variables:
|
|
|
- Risk mapping on the probability of disease ocurrence among wild birds based on climatic and vegetation indexes
- Georeferenced genomic sequences of conversions leading LPAI to HPAI
- Clustering
- AI transmission risk at the interface of domestic poultry and wild birds (?) to determine risk level of introduction
|
|
|
Updates from MOOD Disease-X decision making study
On May 24th, part of the team dedicated to the MOOD's Disease-X decision making study -Timothy Dub (THL Finland), Alexandre Hobeika (CIRAD), Marie Meudec (ITM), Oumy Thiongane (CIRAD) Séverine Thys (ASTRE-CIRAD) and Esther van Kleef (ITM) - met in Montpellier to discuss the analyses of qualitative data from interviews with high-level national decision-makers and scientists active on advisory boards, as well as media personalities from Finland and France in COVID-19 national-level decision-making.
|
|
|
|
The team also discussed the beginning of the publication writing process dedicated to 'How to improve the science and policy interface in decision making for disease X: Lessons learn from COVID 19 national advisory boards of Finland and France'.
|
|
Your next Epidemic Intelligence platform needs you
The MOOD project aims to develop innovative tools and services in a single platform for the early detection, assessment, and monitoring of current and potential infectious disease threats in Europe in a context of global change and a profusion of big data in our professional routines. For this reason, MOOD is inviting EI practitioners from international and national Public Health/AH agencies into Animal Health (PH/AH) across Europe to contribute to the developmental stage of the new intelligence platform during the MOOD Annual Consortium Meeting on June 23-24th in Montpellier (or virtually):
- You will have the chance to directly interact with the MOOD technical and development teams which will guide you through potential tools and features, followed by demonstrations, trials and feedback sessions on front and back-end functionalities.
- Your opinion counts: MOOD sociologists, developers and case study facilitators will be ready to collect your expectations and your view on the functionalities of the proposed solutions to your needs.
Be part of the change in EI practices! More info about the event is on the official website.
For participating, please contact: mood-coordination@cirad.fr
|
|
Early insights from the MOOD participation at the Geneva Health Forum side-workshop
MOOD partners were involved in the organization of the workshop 'Time to rethink the science-policy interface for evidence-based governance? From Covid-19 lessons learned to strengthen our One Health strategy' at the Geneva Health Forum 2022 on May 3rd.
|
|
|
This interactive meeting was moderated by Gian-Luca Burci (Global Health Centre, IHEID) and featured interventions by Martin Beniston (University of Geneva, IPCC), Abdi Mahamud (WHO), Benjamin Roche (IRD, Prezode initiative), Alexandre Hobeika (CIRAD, MOOD project), and Erika Placella (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation).
Read about the highlights, main takeaways and future appointments on the Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI). Further updates will be shared via this newsletter.
Picture: © 2021 Geneva Science Policy Interface
|
|
|
📅 MOOD Summer School 2022: Communication
- Our guest speaker, Dr Sangeeta Bhatia from the Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health (Imperial College London) will give a talk virtually. No changes in the programme are expected.
- All abstracts of the Summer School lectures are now available here.
The MOOD Summer School is a three-day, full-immersion training on June 20th, 21st and 22nd, 2022 in Montpellier (France), where expert lecturers will promote analytical software and computing techniques, tools and datasets around Epidemic Intelligence and epidemiological analysis.
|
|
|
Antimicrobial Resistance Hackathon
On June 22, participants of the MOOD Summer School will join multidisciplinary teams and will be challenged to solve two technical tasks: the main objective involves the development and testing of classification approaches that will automatically identify text on AMR events and types of AMR issues in unstructured data, and classify these events by relevance for epidemic intelligence purposes.
|
|
|
|
At the end of the hackathon challenge, your team will present the developed methodology and outcomes to a jury, accompanied by underlying arguments on what makes your solution innovative and efficient. The hackathon is organized by CIRAD (Tetis Unit) and the Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium) in collaboration with OpenGeoHub. Full abstract here.
|
|
|
📅 New speakers announced at 'Identify signs and drivers of zoonotic diseases emergence and digital data resources for Epidemic Intelligence' workshop
The programme of the upcoming 2-day hybrid workshop in Italy is getting richer! Fondazione Edmund Mach is glad to announce that the closing plenary session will host:
|
|
|
'Spillover Surveillance and One Health Response: Understanding Emerging Zoonotic Threats in Real Time' by Professor Emily Gurley - Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.
|
|
|
|
Broad-spectrum countermeasures in response to early spillover events' by Dr Aguilar-Carreno, Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Cornell University.
|
|
|
|
Submit your abstract here. Abstracts are invited for consideration as oral communication (in the presence or remotely) or poster (as an online short video) especially -but not exclusively on the disease system included in the MOOD project and in particular on the topics covered during the workshop as specified in the scientific program. Deadline for abstract submission: 15th June 2022
|
|
VEO Symposium: what happened?
The VEO Symposium 2022 took place in The Hague, The Netherlands from 17-18 May 2022, anticipated by the ‘Young’ VEO on 16 May, with young researchers gathering to present posters and presentations on the work they do related to VEO. It was primarily an in-person meeting (the first for VEO), with some guests and stakeholders joining via an online capacity. The focus of the Symposium 2022 was to update the Consortium and stakeholders with the latest achievements and inform of plans for future work. Two parallel workshops were held to generate ideas for future work related to Birdborne/vectorborne diseases and global sewage surveillance. An abundance of data has been gathered, and the Consortium wanted to capture ideas on how to bring the vast diversity of information together to further the ideals of the VEO Platform.
At the end of the meeting, a stakeholder meeting was held with the VEO Executive Board to gather feedback and insight into the achievements so far and planned future work. A report on the Symposium is forthcoming, and it will be promoted here & on the VEO official website.
|
|
|
- Three phenological patterns of the Ixodes ricinus ticks were observed, potentially following a climatic gradient;
- observed nymph counts were driven by different interval-average meteorological variables, including 1-month moving average temperature, the previous 3-to-6-month moving average temperature, and 6-month moving average minimum relative humidity;
- The phenology in colder climates peaked differently from that of warmer climates, and land cover characteristics that support the highest baseline abundance were moderate forest fragmentation with transition borders with agricultural areas.
|
|
|
|
📅 MOOD Science Webinar - 25.05.2022
|
|
West Nile virus infection in humans in Serbia and lessons learned from 2018 transmission season
Mitra DRAKULOVIC, MD, Specialist in epidemiology and MSc in Immunology, at the School of the Medicine University of Belgrade, works on the establishment of national surveillance systems for notifiable communicable diseases, among other tasks.In this talk, Mitra described and discussed in detail the surveillance system during the 2018's West Nile virus infection in Serbia.
|
|
|
Importance of Relative Spatial Information (RSI) in EBS
Mehtab Alam Syed is a PhD candidate at CIRAD and funded by the H2020-MOOD project. His work focus on the development of generic methods in order to extract new and relevant events in heterogeneous data textual in a One Health context. Mehtab presented how to extract relative spatial information (RSI) in EBS from different unofficial media sources, followed by a short demo.
|
|
|
|
Videos will be available soon
|
|
|
|
📅17.06.2022 - PREVENTION AT THE HUMAN-ANIMAL-ENVIRONMENT INTERFACE ("ONE HEALTH") - online course
As part of the 'Governing Pandemics' online course, the Geneva Graduate Institute is hosting the sixth free lecture led by Professor Jorge E. Viñuales (Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge; Adjunct Professor, International Law, The Graduate Institute, Geneva) from on 17 June, 14:00 - 15:00 (CET). Programme, info & registration at this link.
|
|
|
📅7.08.2022 - 12.08.2022 | ISVEE 16 | The Halifax Convention Centre
You are all invited to join the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics on-site (Halifax, Canada) or off-site (virtually) to discuss the main theme of this year: Connecting Animals, People, and their shared environments. Registration deadline: 22 July. Read more here.
|
|
|
Stay healthy and best wishes from the MOOD team!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
