The regional PE networks for South East Asia, PENU and SEA-PREID are leading a PE practitioner trainings with support from the EU-funded ComAcross Project. The ComAcross Project is supporting One Health capacity building in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. The Project is implemented by CIRAD and national One Health stake holder organizations. The training team comes … Continue reading
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Report of the Annual Meeting of the Participatory Epidemiology Network in Uganda (PENU)
Dr James Bugeza, Secretary of the Participatory Epidemiology Network in Uganda (PENU) shared the attached report of the PENU annual meeting today. The meeting was held at Esella Country Hotel – Kira Town Council Wakiso District on December 11, 2013. Participants included representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Ministry of Health, local government and … Continue reading
Article on participatory surveillance for HPAI in Ecohealth
Dear Colleagues, Network partners have published a new article in Ecohealth describing participatory surveillance experiences in HPAI control: Mariner JC, Jones BA, Hendrickx S, El Masry I, Jobre Y, Jost CC, 2014. Experiences in participatory surveillance and community-based reporting systems for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza: A case study approach. Journal of EcoHealth: March 19 … Continue reading
Recent Article from CIRAD on Multiplicity of Information Networks in Surveillance
A recent article from CIRAD discusses the importance of diversity of information and nonconventional information networks to the efficacy of surveillance. For text of the full article go to http://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/articles/2013/ca-vient-de-sortir/perspective-no.-23-animal-disease-surveillance Continue reading
International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance (ICAHS) Abstracts Deadline Extended to Dec 8
Please note the deadline for abstracts has been extended to Dec 8 Below is a an extract of one of the call for papers announcement from ICAHS. One of the topic areas is participation and surveillance and another is capacity building in surveillance. This could be a good opportunity to present your participatory epidemiology work! … Continue reading
SEA PREID Hosts PE Training of Trainers
The South East Asian Participatory Research for Emerging and Infectious Disease Network hosted a Training of Trainers Course at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand from Sept 30 to Oct 4, 2013. Participants from 13 participants from Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, France and Belgium completed the course. PENAPH contributed to the facilitation of the meeting and sponsored … Continue reading
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Glossary of participatory epidemiology terms
The Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health (PENAPH) just released a glossary of participatory epidemiology terms. The glossary was compiled by Jeanne Coffin and Syed Noman Ali and can be downloaded at http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33352 Continue reading
First International OCHEA One Health Conference, Addis Ababa, 23-27 Sept 2013
PENAPH is posting this OHCEA announcement as it should be of interest to our members. Please contact the organizers listed in the announcement for more information. One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA), a network of 14 institutions of public health and veterinary medicine in six countries of Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, … Continue reading
Asia Pacific Participatory Epidemiology Network Holds First Training Workshop
The Asia Pacific Participatory Epidemiology Network (APPEN) based at Chiang Mai University is holding its first Introductory Training for PE Practitioners. The course is divided into two 5-day sessions. The first session was held at Khon Kaen University from June 8 to 12. The course included 22 veterinary and public health participants from Thailand, Vietnam, … Continue reading
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