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Join our symposium on Decision making on Foot and Mouth Disease on October the 4th, live or online
On October 4, Thanicha Chanchaidechachai will defend her PhD thesis on the Epidemiological and Economic Evaluation of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Thailand. Therefore you are invited to a special event, dedicated to share and discuss new insights about the control of Foot and Mouth Disease.
Programme:14.00 Welcome, coffee and tea 14.20 Opening
Keynote presentations
14.30 Jonathan Rushton (University of Liverpool): The global burden of FMD
15.00 Thanicha Chanchaidechachai (WUR): Integrating economics and epidemiology – The importance of compliance
15.30 Break
Worldwide presentations:
16.00 Henk Hogeveen (WUR): The role of economics and social sciences in the control of notifiable diseases
16.15 Chaidate Inchaisri (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand): Future challenges in FMD control under endemic circumstances – The situation in Thailand
16.30 Bart van den Borne (WUR): The re-emergence of FMD in Indonesia – A case study from West Java
16.45 Victoria Iriarte (WUR): Uruguay: Towards an FMD free country without vaccination
17.00 Plenary discussion and questions
17.15 Closing and drinks
The live event is free of charge and will be held in De Leeuwenborch (room 62), Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen
Please register yourself before Monday 2nd October 2023 with this link https://forms.office.com/e/cRzkGcdy8R
The online webinar is free of charge and will be held on Wed 4th October 2023, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM CET.
The link for the webinar can be found https://shorturl.at/tvx59
Organizing committee: Henk Hogeveen (Business Economics group, WUR), Mart de Jong (Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology group, WUR), Helmut Saatkamp (Business Economics group, WUR), Egil Fischer (Department of Population Health Sciences, UU) For more information: henk.hogeveen@wur.nl