GOHi Monthly Webinar: Surveillance – Where we are now and barriers to implementation
Thursday, April 21, 2022 , 8:30 - 10 a.m.
Location: CarmenZoom
Contact: Barb Patton
Join the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) for the next monthly webinar on Thursday, April 21, from 8:30-10 a.m. EDT. Hear from Alasdair King, Merck Animal Health, and Andrew Gibson, Mission Rabies, as they discuss “Surveillance, Where We Are Now, the Barriers to Implementation, and How We May Overcome Them.”
Alasdair King
Alasdair King became a veterinary surgeon after graduating from Glasgow University in 1990. After 11 years in mixed practice, he joined Intervet UK as the Livestock Veterinary Advisor. He also took on responsibility for company pharmacovigilance (PV) as the National PV Manager and developed the United Kingdom focus on transboundary and emerging diseases as Government Liaison Officer.
During this time, he was responsible for working on avian influenza vaccine banks and led the company response and vaccine roll-out plan for an outbreak of Bluetongue serotype 8. He also led media communication and crisis management at MSD Animal Health. In 2012, he joined the Institutional Sales Department of MSD Animal Health in the Netherlands, where he was primarily responsible for Foot and Mouth Disease.
Now the Executive Director of International Veterinary Health for Merck Animal Health in New Jersey, he developed the eMergence newsletter and website and serves as host for the podcast. He works with several governments and organizations on disease control plans and strategies, focusing on vaccine accessibility and education alongside surveillance and monitoring.
King has a long-standing partnership with GOHi – during his most recent visit to Ohio State in March 2022, he gave a talk in the College of Veterinary Medicine, among other activities.
Andrew Gibson
Andrew Gibson received his degree in veterinary medicine from the Royal Veterinary College in London in 2010. After working in and researching charity veterinary practice in the United Kingdom, he began working for Mission Rabies during its 2013 launch campaign in India. His previous experience using smartphone technology in an epidemiological context in Zanzibar, Tanzania, transferred to his work on rabies when he developed a smartphone app to overcome challenges faced during mass dog vaccination campaigns and rabies surveillance.
The app has recorded nearly 2 million dog vaccinations on projects worldwide and demonstrated improvement in coordinating vaccination campaigns and doubling vaccination coverage. In addition to continued innovation in software, Gibson’s work focuses on project evaluation and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of field operations for rabies control and dog population management.
He is currently undertaking a PhD at The Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, studying the methods and outcomes of mass dog vaccination and rabies surveillance.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Barb Patton at patton.471@osu.edu. Requests made one week in advance of the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
