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FAO mechanisms to respond to animal or zoonotic disease

• utbreaks: the FAO EMC-AH

Maria Romano, MPH DVM

Emergency Management Specialist Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health, FAO

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FAO Animal Health Service

Mandate

§ Prevent, contain and control the world’s most serious livestock diseases at their source, while also surveying for newly emerging pathogens in a changing environment.

Key animal health related issues

§ Transboundary diseases § Vector-borne diseases § Veterinary public health (including food safety) § Veterinary services

Protecting livestock against diseases and preventing their spread is one of the keys to fighting hunger, malnutrition and poverty.

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FAO Animal Health Service

Top 15 diseases monitored

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• No. of events by disease/units

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Source: FAO GLEWS, Animal Health Threat Update (AHTU)

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Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health

Core functions

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Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health

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Emergency Management Center for Animal Health

Assess current preparedness and response mechanisms, as well as capacities in countries, and support prevention and detection activities.

• Alert
• Encourage and assist countries to take early action by conducting outreach

and deploying early action missions to countries facing an imminent animal health risk.

• Response
• Continue to deploy rapid response missions to assist countries who are

responding to outbreaks.

A new approach to animal health missions…

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Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health

• Continue to provide a “safety net” and deploy rapid response

missions to assist countries that are responding to outbreaks.

• Consider surge support, as warranted, to provide prolonged

assistance and help manage the emergency response.

Continuing certain activities…

Leverage projects supporting the development of a manual on how to manage an animal health emergency operations – incident coordination and incident management.

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EM EMC-AH AH Mis Missio ions ns To Da Date

October 2006 – June 2019

103 103 mi missions 53 53 co countries

(approx. 46% HPAI, 20% Zoonoses and 34% other TADs)

Newcastle Disease Mers-CoV Fish Kill

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Grand Total: 37 GEMP workshops Over 60 countries Over 800 participants

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Emergency (Response)

• Rapid deployment of missions to support emergency response in

countries and regions with animal health emergencies.

• Provide animal health technical and operation support to FAO Level 3

emergency response operations.

• Maintain a roster of animal health and emergency management

experts to meet country requests for needs assessments, rapid response and surge support.

Actions conducted by the EMC-AH

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Emergency (Response)

• EMC-AH (coordinator)
• ECTAD country team leaders
• FAO Country Office Representative
• FAO Regional Office Representatives
• Experts from the roster
• Partners

Rapid Deployment Teams

Team of experts collecting information in Viet Nam, March 2019

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Emergency (Response)

Procedures for rapid deployment

Intelligence gathering Planning Pre mission Mission Post mission

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Emergency (Response)

• Assess epidemiological findings
• Strengthen veterinary laboratory capacity
• Assess field activities
• Review response plans and implementation

procedures

• Support risk communication
• Identify gaps and propose action plans
• Short, medium and long term

Mission activities

Mission team in Zambia conducting field surveillance, February 2019

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Preparedness – Myanmar

March 2019 Multi-stakeholder information gathering

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Alert – Lao PDR

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Response – Cambodia

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Incident Coordination

Animal Health Events

FAO Emergency Operations Centre, Rome Italy

• African Swine Fever
• Ebola
• Equine Diseases

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Ongoing projects

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Key Partners

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Thank you! For questions please contact Romano.maria.g@gmail.com