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Practical disease surveillance workshop

A workshop on practical disease surveillance is planned for 30 August to 1 September 2011 to be held at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney.

Surveillance is an essential component of Australia’s preparedness for emerging and exotic diseases, as well as for the management of endemic diseases. Surveillance is used to provide information on disease prevalence and distribution, as well as for demonstrating freedom from disease and for the detection of new and emerging diseases. However, how confident are you that the results of your surveillance are accurate? How reliable are your prevalence estimates? Will your surveillance results withstand critical scrutiny? How should I select my sample to ensure it is representative of the population?

This course is designed to provide a practical introduction to disease surveillance for animal health professionals. It starts with the basic concepts and reasons for undertaking surveillance and builds on these concepts to work through case studies and examples of different sampling and analytical methods for both random and risk-based surveillance programs.

The course is targeted primarily at animal health professionals responsible for planning or implementing disease surveillance at administrative, planning or field levels. This includes students undertaking postgraduate degrees, as well as researchers, laboratory professionals, animal health managers, epidemiologists and field staff.

For more information, visit http://training.ausvet.com.au/index.php?n=Main.PracticalDiseaseSurveillance

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