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The Animal Determinants of Emerging Disease (ADED) Seminar Series provides a forum for integrating animal ecology and veterinary medicine with medical microbiology and public health expertise to focus on non-human determinants of disease emergence. These seminars help to link and integrate people, evidence and opinion to develop a single coherent view on disease emergence and the appropriate public health response to that emergence. The seminar series strive to:
1. Foster regular exchange of information between animal and human health researchers.
2. Promote discussion on detecting and monitoring changing patterns of animal health to better understand their role in disease emergence.
3. Schedule a variety of veterinary and human health presenters and topics to explore the link between animal health determinants and human health outcomes.
4. Present animal health data and applied surveillance projects that incorporate new models of risk assessment and infectious disease ecology (to facilitate the development of predictive models).
5. And above all, promote professional and individual networking.
The Animal Determinants of Emerging Disease (ADED) Research Unit wrapped up in 2009 with the completion of the Micheal Smith Foundation grant. This was a multidisciplinary unit that integrated animal ecology and veterinary medicine with medical microbiology and public health expertise. The primary focus was on non-human determinants of disease emergence. Through the integration of cross-species data to develop a fuller understanding of the role of animals in emerging infectious diseases, unit researchers worked to assist decision makers with the development of evidence-based disease prevention and control plans within complex human-animal-environment systems.
In the past, a number of our members had worked together on an ad hoc or project-by-project basis. The unit provided a sustained infrastructure on which to link and integrate people, evidence and opinion to develop a single coherent view on disease emergence.
Since its inception in November 2003, ADED has hosted monthly seminar series between September and April to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, networking and data/resource sharing. Our rounds topics and participants have been extremely diverse. A full list of speakers and presentation titles is available online.
The Centre for Coastal Health was the headquarters for the ADED Research Unit, and continues to provide the personel and infrastructure to support the ADED Seminar Series.
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