Description:
In this session, participants will hear analyses of the link between animal and human infectious disease transmission pathways from the developing and developed world, learn about new tools to unify data sources to assess the emergence and resurgence of infectious disease, and hear perspectives on how more coordinated policies are needed to address the important intersection of animal, wildlife, and human health. This session will present an analysis of Triatoma infestans vector distribution to better understand the risk for Chagas disease as well as how modeling techniques were used to estimate daily vehicular contact rates between farms and simulate the potential impact of a single pandemic-influenza infected farm in a dense broiler chicken production region in the United States on disease transmission. As evidenced by the recent H1N1 outbreak, understanding pathogen movement may be critical for preventing pandemic disease in humans. The session will also provide information about HealthScapes, a Web?based infrastructure to manage, analyze, and share data to advance knowledge and discovery, and will include an introduction to integrated infectious disease policy-making. |