EPT and OHCEA Flashcards

1
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What are EPT-1 goals?

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Viral discovery
Risk characterization
Risk mitigation
Early detection
One Health capacities
Outbreak response
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2
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What are the categories of EPT?

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Predict
Prevent
Prepare
Respond
Identify
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3
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What is viral discovery?

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To address the need for early discovery of new, emergent disease threats

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4
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What does PREDICT focus on?

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Detection and discovery of zoonotic disease at the wildlife-human interface

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5
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What is predicted by the end of EPT-1?

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100% of the target countries will be capable of conducting appropriate animal sampling in key interfaces
100% of target countries will have the capacity and/or access to diagnostics for the target (20) high consequences viral families
Surveillance data for all countries will be incorporated into the global predictive model

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What does prevent focus on?

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Characterizing risks associated with disease transmission between animals and people developing risk-mitigation strategies

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7
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What are the implementing partners of identify?

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FAO
WHO
OIE

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What does identify focus on?

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Strengthening lab capacity to safely diagnose and report common animal and human pathogens

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What are the implementing partners of respond?

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Development alternatives Inc
Tufts University
University of Minnesota
Ecology and Environment
Training Resources Group
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10
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What does respond focus on?

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Pre-service workforce training and strengthening outbreak response capacity

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11
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What was respond built upon?

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CIMTRADZ and LIPHEA (leadership in public health in East Africa)

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What are the specific activities of respond?

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Networking between schools of public health, vet med, and environment in both Africa and Southeast Asia

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What are the OHCEA participating countries?

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Senegal
CAmeroon
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Rwanda
Tanzania
DRC
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14
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What is the vision of OHCEA?

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A global leader in OH approaches to sustainable health and productivity of communities, animals, and ecosystems

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What is the mission of OHCEA?

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To drive transformational change for continuous improvement of health and well being of humans, animals, and ecosystems through multi-disciplinary research, training, and community service

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16
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What are the OHCEA membership and partners?

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8 vet schools and 8 public health schools
DRC, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Gabon, Cameroun, Senegal
University of Minnesota and Tufts through RESPOND
EPT1 and EPT2

17
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What are the OHCEA objectives?

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To establish and maintain partnerships between human and animal health disciplines
To contributes to increased public knowledge of animal to human transmission of diseases using OH approach
To coordinate regional human and organizational resources to support OH education, training, policy and program analysis
Ensure that gender is key to activities
To promote the development of sharing pre-service, in-service, and graduate curricula tailored to the emerging disease epidemiology and outbreak response needs within OHCEA member countires
TO strengthen the capacity of OHCEA countries to respond to emerging infectious disease pandemic threats
To promote the integration of human, vet, and wildlife disease surveillance and control

18
Q

What are the sectors of the membership of country coordinating committees?

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Agriculture/animal health
Health
Nursing
Wildlife
Education
Trade and tourism
Environment authority
Research
19
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What is the OHCEA’s 10 year strategic goals?

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Strengthen growing institutional network
Support national agencies
Expand the size and capabilities of OH workforce
Build and leverage strategic partnerships
Strengthen infrastructure capacity
Generate evidence based data and share information

20
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What is the progress of OHCEA?

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It is legally registered in Uganda as a company limited by guarantee
Executed a $250,000 grant
Now implementing EPT2 workforce development
Deans’ summits held and rotate in ECA
Representatives attended Engaging Intergovernmental Organizations (WHO, WTO, FAO, OIE)
OH fellowships
OH institute
Organized the first OH conference (Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia)
Joint OH conference in Uganda (UVA & UMA)
ORIP
Global public health institute