1. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 1 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO Initiatives on One Health as part of the Tripartite Collaboration

2. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 2 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO One Health Priorities  Leverage the lessons learned in combating H5N1 HPAI to tackle a host of animal diseases that threaten human health and livelihoods at the disease source  Strengthen surveillance systems at the regional, national and local levels to prevent and detect disease emergence and contain disease spread  Understand disease risk factors, including the socio- economic context, to prevent and manage disease outbreaks  Develop capacities at regional, national and local levels  Reinforce safe animal production practices and veterinary infrastructure in the long term to defend against high impact diseases

3. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 3 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO’s Regional perspective on One Health priorities and sustainability  Regional Support Unit and Regional Epidemiology Centre for SAARC countries was established in 2010 in Kathmandu, Nepal for implementing the project ‘Regional Cooperation Programme on HPEDs in SAARC region’  SAARC member countries’ initiative  Emergency assistance for surveillance of influenza A(H7N9) virus in poultry and other animal populations in the South Asia region: (one year TCP project for the medium risk countries in SA) SAARC priority animal diseases FMD HPAI H5N1 Brucellosis?Rabies PPR

4. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 4 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  Building epidemiology and laboratory capacities in the members states  Building epidemiology and laboratory networks amongst the members states  Harmonization of prevention and control of priority diseases including zoonoses in the region under the umbrella of GF-TADs framework and One Health concept Main priorities

5. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 5 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Collaborates with public health/WHO and wildlife experts to deliver the courses although no PH personnel participates as of now Epidemiology and Laboratory capacity building

6. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 6 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Epidemiology and laboratory capacity building contd...  Risk analysis training for vets  Risk Based surveillance training for vets  Training in disease database and spatial analysis - TADInfo and GIS software  Laboratory capacity building - training in Proficiency Testing for veterinary diagnostics laboratories, differential diagnosis of AI and NCD, Lab Directors meeting, lab assessments, etc

7. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 7 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Networking for sharing of disease information and harmonization of disease prevention and control We can see opportunity for MPH and MVM graduates from Massey as important human resource for the regional epidemiology network and for sharing of information  Identification of epidemiology focal points

8. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 8 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations IRIS for National Information system? Public health information system

9. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 9 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations REC/RSU initiatives for information sharing, networking, disease intelligence and capacity building Sent by mail to all relevant contacts in the MS (over 200 now) through e-mail and also through social media like LinkedIn and Facebook http://saarc-rsu-hped.org/ We see a great potential in collaborating with Massey in using HUBNET platform and the Hubnet coordinators from MS

10. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 10 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  Promoting Progressive Control Pathway for FMD, PPR and Rabies initiated  Value chain studies to identify risk factors for transmission and spread of disease in the Indo-gangetic plains and Brahmaputra basins  Poultry value chain completed  Livestock value chain studies ongoing Harmonization of disease control programmes

11. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 11 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  It is envisaged that SAARC Secretariat is going to sustain the project under its umbrella in the long run possibly with SAARC funding  In the short term: Facilitation and coordination through REC/RSU & SAARC Secretariat  One activity for the next phase of this project under possible ADB funding is to work on the smooth transition of the project implementation to be absorbed under SAARC mechanism Sustainability

12. Fare clic per modificare lo stile del titolo Fare clic per modificare gli stili del testo dello schema Secondo livello Terzo livello Quarto livello Quinto livello Expert Group Meeting, New Delhi 12 FAO Sub Regional ECTAD Unit and Regional Support Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations