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Dear readers,
After the second internal meeting in March, MOOD is taking fast steps toward an interactive and dynamic co-conception process of the tools that will constitute the MOOD platform. This year, consortium partners are inviting you to join the MOOD Summer School in June & WP2 international workshop "Signs and drivers of zoonotic diseases emergence and digital data resources for Epidemic Intelligence" in September. Check out for more news around MOOD contributions to international conferences, and the monthly science webinar.
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Highlights from the 2nd MOOD Task Leaders Meeting
On March 8-9, MOOD partners met in the hybrid meeting to further discuss technical documentation relative to the MOOD modules (tools) in view of the upcoming co-conception sessions with end-users. Here are some highlights:
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- The technical development process for the MOOD platform has officially started under the lead of AVIA-gis (WP5), supported by the GERDAL & CIRAD animation team;
- End-users in Public Health & Veterinary Health sector will be informed about the tools' technical aspects in April;
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- The first co-conception meeting with the end-users from the French epidemic intelligence team has been set in April between LIRMM, CIRAD, INRAE and ANSES to discuss the visualization of PADI-web outputs.
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📅 MOOD Summer School 2022: registrations are open!
To support the uptake of MOOD innovations, OpenGeoHub (WP6) together with CIRAD (WP7) is opening the registrations to the MOOD Summer School, a 3-day in-person capacity building event addressing young researchers, professionals, and technical staff on June 20-22, 2022 in the Agropolis building in Montpellier (France). The programme is still under construction, and we aim to invite relevant keynote speakers to enrich the content and steer insightful discussions around:
- 20-21 June: Introduction, full-immersion training, expert lecturers and demos on MOOD relevant topics and computing techniques, and data visualization;
- 22 June: AMR internal hackathon to explore solutions to the burning issues around Antimicrobial resistance.
Registrations are open till May 1st, and everyone is welcome to join (max capacity: 45).
The event is sponsored by the MOOD project, including lunch, coffee breaks and social drinks, and we are looking forward to meeting you in Montpellier!
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📅 Workshop: Identify signs and drivers of zoonotic diseases emergence and digital data resources for Epidemic Intelligence (28-29 September)
Working Package 2, led by Fondazione Edmund Mach (Italy) is organizing a 2-day hybrid workshop that provides a forum for showcasing current research and findings in the field of new tools and data for Epidemic Intelligence, as well as for identifying critical questions and future research challenges and highlighting the interdisciplinary approaches needed to meet them under the One Health umbrella. The scientific program will be organized in 6 sessions with plenary lectures by invited speakers followed by a presentation session (oral or posters) from MOOD partners and other invited experts, with a final round table discussion.
- Day 1: Which drivers and how do they affect disease emergence?
- Day 2: What methods and tools can be applied to drivers to provide early warning and rapid disease risk assessment?
Links to abstract submission & registration will be provided soon.
For more information: annapaola.rizzoli@fmach.it
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MOOD at the epidemiological surveillance platforms seminar - 22nd March
MOOD coordination Dr Elena Arsevska was invited to the one-day seminar on epidemiological surveillance platforms organized by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food, as part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union at the Pierre Mendes France Conference Center, Paris on March 22nd. Dr Arsevska presented the contributions of the MOOD project and PADI-web at the round table round on “ The needs from the field, for the surveillance of tomorrow and research answers” to more than 400 participants.
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COVID-19 scatterplots are now on the MOOD website!
Have you followed Julia Haas' webinar "COVID-19 Scatterplots: Waves as Circles" last February and you would like to know more about mundialis' work? You can now gain more insights about the plots through a short video and access the platform directly from the MOOD website!
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Leptospirosis case study webpage
With global climate change and more frequent extreme weather events, the incidence, as well as the magnitude of leptospirosis outbreaks could increase in the coming years. To tackle this health threat, MOOD has dedicated one of the seven case studies to improving the data access and event-based surveillance of Leptospirosis outbreaks led by Elena Arsevska, Epidemiologist at CIRAD. Find out more and stay up to date on the new webpage of the MOOD website!
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📅30.03. 2022 MOOD Science Webinar
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VECMAP
Guy Hendrickx is the founding CEO of Avia-GIS, MOOD partner in WP5. With over 35 years of experience in the field of spatial epidemiology and the development of spatial decision support systems for risk management, Guy will present VECMAP, a one-stop shop for the area-wide mapping and modelling of the distribution and abundance of vectors, pathogens and hosts.
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PADI-web: a health monitoring system to analyze the emergence and spread of animal diseases
Julien Rabatel is a freelance developer with a PhD in Computer Science. At this webinar, Julien will describe the processes and benefits of PADI-web, the online tool that collects and processes documents from the Web. The talk will focus on the future of PADI-web and how its current limitations can be addressed.
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Previous edition: MOOD Science Webinar 23.02.2022
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COVID-19 Scatterplots: Waves as circles
On February 23rd, we invited Julia Haas, Data Analyst and Developer at mundialis GmHb, who presented the newly developed application showing graphs for COVID-19 "status" in Germany, referring to incidence values and change of new cases in different German regions.
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Building a web portal to improve the availability of data on ticks and tick-borne diseases
Xavier Bailly is a molecular epidemiologist at VetAgroSup (INRAE) working on various tick-borne pathogens, and leads the research unit that focuses on the epidemiology of animal and zoonotic diseases. In his talk, Xavier shared ideas about the implementation of a web portal that could be used to centralize data on tick dynamics and infection by tick-borne pathogens within the MOOD context.
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📅2.05.2022 - Evaluating surveillance systems for antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use in a One Health context
The CoEval-AMR consortium organizes a 1-day hybrid workshop ahead of the 4th International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance dedicated to the methods for assessing AMR and AMU surveillance systems from an integrated perspective together with presenters from the consortium. Information & registrations here.
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📅17.05.2022 - The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tropical veterinary medicine education and research
The Association of Institutions for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (AITVM) in collaboration with the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine (STVM) and the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) cordially invite you to join this online event on Tuesday 17 May 2022 from 12:00 to 15:00 CET. Registration is free of charge. Programme:
- "One Health” as a lever for socioecological change in our challenging world” by Dr Aurélie Binot (CIRAD)
- “Recent advances in veterinary vaccine development” by Dr Timothy Connelley (International Veterinary Vaccines Network)
- “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on veterinary medical education: challenges and innovations” by Prof. Pan-Dong Ryu (College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
- Young researcher session in the field of tropical veterinary medicine and international animal health: Flash talks (5-minute presentation & 2-minute questions).
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📅17.05.2022 - YOUNG RESEARCHER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION at the 'The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tropical veterinary medicine education and research'
MSc and PhD students are encouraged to submit their research abstracts to get the chance to present their work virtually at the event and to receive a travel award for the next joint AITVM-STVM conference held in Montpellier, France in May 2023! A maximum of 10 abstracts will be selected for presentation at the event and selected authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts by 15.04. Deadline: 3 April 2022.
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📅4-8.07.2022 - Entomology Summer Course
National Veterinary School of Toulouse, France is inviting postgraduate (MSc and PhD) students, Post-doctoral researchers, entomologists, laboratory staff and EVPC and ACVM residents to take part in the next ‘Hands-on Course on Arthropods of Medical and Veterinary Significance: A global perspective, from theory to practice.' Also this year PhD students from the Global South will have the chance to apply for the “Young Scientist Award” to receive a scholarship and participate to the course. Deadline for registrations: 30th April
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Stay healthy and best wishes from the MOOD team!
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