Objectives :

Develop recommendations for risk assessment and management.
Develop decision support tools for AI surveillance and control.

Risk assessment tools and methods

• description of poultry and poultry-product commercial networks at local, national and international levels
• study of key factors favouring the introduction and spread of diseases
• development of a spatial-temporal transmission model
• use of the model to refine recommendations for the surveillance of wild and domestic avian populations
• use of the model to simulate various control methods and determine their impact on disease spread

Surveillance and control

• Evaluation and reinforcement of surveillance systems
• Vaccination as a control strategy: assessment and impact modelling

Economic analysis of surveillance and control methods. Communication with stakeholders and decision makers

• Economic assessment of surveillance systems
• Cost-benefit analysis of control methods

Research keywords :

Quantitative epidemiology - Risk analysis - Control measures - Economics

Countries :

- Ethiopia

- Madagascar

- Mali

- Mauritanie

- South Africa

- Vietnam

- Zimbabwe

Teams :

Epidemiology / Economy : Véronique Chevalier, Stéphanie Desvaux, Flavie Goutard, Sophie Molia, Marisa Peyre, Jean-François Renard, François Roger

Sociology :  Muriel Figuié