The GRIPAVI research project (2006-2011) on the ecology and epidemiology of Avian influenza (AI) and Newcastle diseases (ND) in six countries of Africa and South East Asia is finalizing at the end of 2011, by organising an international conference:

Avian influenza dynamic and management:
at virus, birds and humans interfaces

 November 22 - 24 2011
Cirad - Amphithéâtre J. Alliot
Montpellier – France

Three years after the international conference “Regards croisés sur la Grippe aviaire” this 2011 meeting aims to present the Gripavi project results to a wider audience and identify key challenges and perspective to improve avian born diseases understanding and management in tropical countries.

See final programme here

See the participants list

Download the final report  

Communications materiels during the conference:

- The avian pest situation in Africa  by Folorunso O. Fasina (National Veterinary Research Institute Nigeria)

- The avian influenza situation en Asia byVincent Martin (FAO ECTAD Chine)

- An ecohealth/one health perspective on HPAI H5N1   by Dirk Pfeiffer (RVC-UK)

- Factors of introduction, speading and persistence of H5N1 virus: the case of oultry in North Vietnam acteurs by Stéphanie Desvaux et Pham Thi Thanh Hoa.

- Risk factors for avian influenza and Newcastle disease in domestic poultry in Ethiopia and Mali by Hassen Chaka et Sophie Molia.

- Poultry farm typology for risk of avian pest in Madagascar by Harentsoaniaina Rasamoelina Andriamanivo.

- Environmental patterns for avian influenza risk in Madagascar (Alaotra lake) by Laure Guerrini.

- Seasonal changes of avian influenza prevalence in wild birds in West Africa and Southern Africa by Julien Cappelle, Josphine Mundava et Alexandre Caron  .

- The role of waterbirds in the circulation of avian influenza virus in the inner Niger Delta in Mali by Bouba Fofana et Gilles Balança  .

- Understanding the ecological drivers of avian influenza virus infection in wildfowl: a continental scale study across Africa by Nicolas Gaidet.

- A review on AIV and NDV strains circulating woldwide and curretly focus on the characterization of AIV and NDV strains isolated in Africa by Giovanni Cattoli (IZS Italie)

- Newcastle disease strains circulating in West Africa: diversity, isolation of new strains by Marthin Dakouo.

- Newcastle disease strains circulating in Southern  Africa: diversity, isolation of new strains by Fridolin Maminiaina et Celia Abolnik.

-  Reconstruction and phylogenetic evolution of Newcastle viruses and impact on the natural history of Newcastle disease by Renata Servan de Almeida.

- Potential spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 by wildfowl: dispersal ranges and rates determined from large-scale satellite telemetry by Nicolas Gaidet.

- "Bridge species" to connect bird populations: state of art and hypothesis by Alexandre Caron.

- Modelling of contact rates dynamics between domestic and wild birds by Julien Cappelle.

- Transmission of influenza virus to swine: a case study in Vietnam by Carlène Trévennec.

- The "social network analysis" approach to improve poultry health surveillance in Madagascar by Harentsoaniaina Rasamoelina Andriamanivo.

- Contribution of CMR methods in understanding the virus local epidemiological dynamics in a population of wild birds by Vladimir Grosbois.

- Politics, Power and Accountability: Response to Avian Influenza in SE Asia by Tuong Vu  (Princeton University)

- Perception and risk management of avian pest by farmers in Southeast Asia and Africa by Muriel Figuié et Mathilde Paul.

- Formal and informal monitoring methods: effectiveness, sensitivities in Mali and Vietnam by Stéphanie Desvaux et Sophie Molia.

- Limits of vaccination in the control of HPAI in Vietnam and Egypt: social and institutional issues by Marisa Peyre.

- The poultry commodity chains restructuration in response to HPAI crisis in Vietnam by Paule Moustier, Anh Tuan Pham et   Muriel Figuié.

- Communication strategies relating to Avian Influenza in Vietnam: from technocratic to more deliberative approaches by Nguyen Minh Huong.

- Output synthesis of the 6 Gripavi national workshops.

- Approaches to controlling, preventing and eliminating H5N1 HP avian influenza in endemic countries by Gwenaëlle Dauphin (FAO).

- OFFLU contribution to global avian influenza control by Gounalan Pavade (OIE -OFFLU). 

- International governance of sanitary crisis by Muriel Figuié (Cirad).