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Coming soon: MOOD Xmas Event 3.0 - what to expect
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It is official: the MOOD Xmas Event 3.0 is hosting more than 70 participants, with a guest list that projects insightful demonstrations and lively feedback sessions. The event will welcome representatives from national Public Health agencies, international health institutions and EU agencies, who will be able to pose questions and suggest improvements to best adapt the first version of the MOOD Epidemic Intelligence Platform (Generic Part) to their work needs.
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MOOD Summer School 2023: Applications are now open!
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The second edition of the MOOD Summer School is now opening the doors to applications!
Are you a young professional and/or researcher in Epidemiology, Public Health, Animal Health, Disease Ecology, Geospatial Science and Machine Learning? Then join the next Summer School entirely dedicated to "Geospatial under the One Health umbrella" organized by OpenGeoHub foundation. The event will feature full-day training with international experts and hands-on practicals to solve geospatial challenges in the Epidemic Intelligence sector.
➡️ Save the date: 22–26 May 2023
➡️ Location: The Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILs), Split - Croatia
➡️ Application deadline: 1 February 2023
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MOOD General Assembly Meeting & Scientific Conference in Helsinki - Two events, One Health
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The MOOD coordination team is pleased to announce two flagship events in 2023:
1. MOOD General Assembly Meeting: Achievements and further developments will be discussed within the MOOD consortium, alongside the progress of the MOOD Epidemic Intelligence platform to invited participants;
2. MOOD Scientific Conference: the MOOD consortium will host a series of high-profile talks sharing and discussing the latest scientific work around One Health and Epidemic Intelligence data.
➡️ Save the dates: 27-28-29 June 2023
➡️ Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland
➡️ Stay tuned for more details.
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From the blog: West Nile Virus overwintering capacity and the importance of cross-continental collaboration for disease surveillance - Interview with Giulia Mencatelli
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Giulia Mencattelli is PhD student between 3 institutes in Italy and the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Sénégal. During the MOOD International Workshop last September, she presented her work on “West Nile virus Lineage 2 overwintering in Italy.” Following this presentation, she was asked a few questions regarding her research experience between two continents, upholding the core value of international collaboration of the MOOD project.
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PANDEM-2 is an H2020 EU-Funded project that aims to develop new solutions for efficient, EU-wide pandemic management by developing innovations in preparedness, planning and situational awareness IT tools. To enhance Europe’s capacity to respond to emerging health threats on a cross-border basis -thus reducing potential interruption to vital healthcare infrastructure- PANDEM-2 is working on:
- The development of a training platform for health emergencies that includes:
- A pandemic-management database which identifies, maps and integrates health surveillance data from multiple open sources (global, EU, national). This data can be queried and analysed via the PANDEM-2 dashboard.
- Modelling tools to assess resource capacity (e.g. hospital beds, ventilators) and workforce readiness, to respond to different health threats on a subnational, national, and EU-wide basis.
- Cross-border pandemic response training and simulation exercises for implementation in EU Public Health Emergency Operating Centres to strengthen the cross-border pandemic response.
- Development of risk communication tools to support the real-time exchange of information and advice between public health agencies, healthcare providers, first responders and communities affected by cross-border health threats.
- Improving biosecurity and biosafety through the development of a toolkit with guidelines, protocols and resources on biosafety and biosecurity for first responders, clinical staff and laboratory personnel during cross-border responses.
For more information on the project and to keep up to date with developments, follow PANDEM-2 on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Decision-making and Covid-19
Alexandre Hobeika is a researcher in political science and sociology at CIRAD. He works on the coordination of actors for the governance of health risks, using the One Health approach. In this webinar, Alexander expounded on the results of his work on the relationships between modellers and decision-makers during the Covid-19 crisis in Finland and France.
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State of the art of epidemic intelligence activities among national public and animal health agencies in Europe: A large-scale cross-sectional study
Timothée Dub is a senior expert in the department of Health security of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). His activities mainly focus on vector-borne, emerging infectious and vaccine-preventable diseases, as well as outbreaks investigations. Tim presented his latest large-scale sectional study conducted in 2021 about the State of the art of epidemic intelligence activities among national public and animal health agencies in Europe in collaboration with the MOOD team.
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- This study aimed to provide researchers and public-health users with locally validated oviposition traps to monitor Aedes populations in La Reunion;
- This study was the first step of a research project aiming at providing methods and tools for controlling Aedes mosquito populations with the boosted Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)
- This work recommends using black plastic ovitraps, placed at 1.50-to-2.00-m high in vacoa trees, with vacoa leaves as the oviposition surface.
- Data availability: The data—and R code needed to run the data analysis, are available in a zip file (ovitrap.zip) found in the Supplementary Information material.
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- To prepare a vector-control field trial against Ae. aegypti, this study aimed at identifying the best trapping strategy to catch adult Ae. aegypti, using BG-Sentinel traps (Biogents, Germany);
- Traps with BG-Lure—alone or in combination with CO2, did not improve the detection probability of Ae. aegypti and Cx. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes, for male Ae. albopictus and for females, baiting BG-Sentinel traps with CO2 or BG-Lure had no significant effect.
- The same apparent densities were found for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes in both study sites—where Ae. aegypti mosquitoes were found at very low densities during previous surveys.
- Data availability: Data and R code needed to run the analysis are available in a master R Markdown document named bgtrap.Rmd containing the dataset.
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📅14.12.2022 – MOOD Xmas Event 3.0: Launch of the generic platform
In this edition, we will not only wrap up the work of the entire year but also invite the end-users of the future MOOD platform to discover and test the first two modules. Do you want to join?
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📅9–10.03.2022 | MOOD Case Studies and Task Leaders Meeting
This meeting will be held at CIRAD, 42, rue scheffer. More information will be announced shortly.
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📅21–26.05.2023 | MOOD Summer School 2023 in Croatia
The deep dive into health data analysis and computing will be held in Croatia. Applications to participate are now open!
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📅27–29.06.2023 | MOOD General Assembly Meeting & MOOD Scientific Conference 2023
This milestone event will be held in June. Save the date!
More information will be shared in the upcoming month.
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📅29.06 – 1.07.2023 | International Symposium of the World Society of Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories (ISWAVLD)
Lyon, Centre des Congrès, June 29th. More info: https://www.iswavld2023.org/
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