EPT and OHCEA Flashcards
What are EPT-1 goals?
Viral discovery Risk characterization Risk mitigation Early detection One Health capacities Outbreak response
What are the categories of EPT?
Predict Prevent Prepare Respond Identify
What is viral discovery?
To address the need for early discovery of new, emergent disease threats
What does PREDICT focus on?
Detection and discovery of zoonotic disease at the wildlife-human interface
What is predicted by the end of EPT-1?
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
What does prevent focus on?
Characterizing risks associated with disease transmission between animals and people developing risk-mitigation strategies
What are the implementing partners of identify?
FAO
WHO
OIE
What does identify focus on?
Strengthening lab capacity to safely diagnose and report common animal and human pathogens
What are the implementing partners of respond?
Development alternatives Inc Tufts University University of Minnesota Ecology and Environment Training Resources Group
What does respond focus on?
Pre-service workforce training and strengthening outbreak response capacity
What was respond built upon?
CIMTRADZ and LIPHEA (leadership in public health in East Africa)
What are the specific activities of respond?
Networking between schools of public health, vet med, and environment in both Africa and Southeast Asia
What are the OHCEA participating countries?
Senegal CAmeroon Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Rwanda Tanzania DRC
What is the vision of OHCEA?
A global leader in OH approaches to sustainable health and productivity of communities, animals, and ecosystems
What is the mission of OHCEA?
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
What are the OHCEA membership and partners?
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
What are the OHCEA objectives?
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
What are the sectors of the membership of country coordinating committees?
Agriculture/animal health Health Nursing Wildlife Education Trade and tourism Environment authority Research
What is the OHCEA’s 10 year strategic goals?
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
What is the progress of OHCEA?
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
