Deans Meeting Wvc Oct 2011

OIE Collaborating Centre

for Training in

Integrated Livestock

and

Wildlife Health and Management,

Onderstepoort

Presenter: Prof Koos Coetzer

Deputy Dean:

Research, Postgraduate Studies and Internationalization

Faculty of Veterinary Science

University of Pretoria

Transfrontier Parks

Current trends:

• Development of TFCAs with major focus on wildlife and culturally based tourism

• Infrastructure development and removal of fences (and other barriers) to encourage tourism and restore mobility of wildlife over larger landscapes

• High expectations for tourism development and wealth generation on the part of governments, parks agencies and TFCA residents

But, serious wildlife, livestock and associated human and resource use issues remain to be addressed across national and land use boundaries

Context

The activities of the proposed collaborating Centre will be supportedby the following institutions:

• Lead Institution: Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, UP, SA (Contact person: Prof JAW Coetzer)

• University of Pretoria (Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies, Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development)

• Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (OVI), SA

• Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp

• National Institute for Communicable Diseases, SA

• Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, SA

• Others in SADC?

Consortium Partner Institutions

Development of the Centre

• Proposal - OIE Collaboration Centre 29 January 2009

• African Commission 24 February 2009

• International Commission of the OIE 26 May 2009

• Arusha: Veterinary Deans and Registrars

of the SADC region 2 – 4 September 2009

• Regional OIE office, Gaborone, Botswana 11 – 14 September 2009

• SADC Foot-and-mouth disease project and OIE

regional office, Gaborone, Botswana 2 – 3 November 2009

• Workshop: Clarify issues of development and

implementation of OIE Collaborating Centre 11 November 2009

OIE Collaborating Centre for Training in Integrated Livestock and Wildlife Health and Management

• MSc (Animal/Human/Ecosystem Health)

• Certificated and credit-bearing Continuing Professional Development

(CPD) opportunities

Focus: One Health

Target groupsAnimal, human and environmental health officers

Online modular training


The new MSc (Animal/Human/Ecosystem Health) and CPD opportunities support the

building of capacity of a new generation of professionals to meet the challenges and

issues at the livestock/wildlife/human/ecosystem interface (One Health approach)

including aspects of emerging, re-emerging and transboundary diseases, zoonoses,

public health and food safety, ecosystem health and policy


Online modular training

Focus: One Health


CPD Programmes / Packages

In collaboration with the Institute of Tropical Medicine

• Free access to fact sheets

• Register for online, certificated and credit-bearing CPD courses

• Online assessment (quizzes) for CPD points (South African Veterinary Council)

• Content developed by world-renowned experts

• Resources include a range of high-quality audio-visual materials e.g. video clips and

animations

OIE Collaborating Centre for

Training in Integrated Livestock

and Wildlife Health and

Management

PRINT Programme: CPD

Date: 2007 - 2009

Focus: Animal Health and Animal Production

SADC – Regional programme

Re-packaging

Veterinary

Information HUB

MSc and CPD

• Modular Web-based MSc (Veterinary Tropical Diseases)

• CPD modules in Tropical Animal Health

• New modules developed

SADC & other

Institutions or

individuals

(Development &

Implementation)

Questions

• Branding?

• Embedded in UP?

Development of the HUB

OIE Collaborating Centre for Training in

Integrated Livestock and Wildlife Health and Management

Focus:

Integrated disease management at the wildlife / livestock / human interface

• One Health (Background, Introduction and Concepts)

Objectives / Outcomes:

• Quality livelihoods • Optimal animal health and production • Rural development

• Ecosystem health • Biodiversity • Food security • Sustainability

OIE Collaborating Centre for Training in

Integrated Livestock and Wildlife Health and Management

CPD Programmes / Packages:

Livestock health, management and

production

Emerging and re-emerging

diseases

Wildlife health, management and

production

Arthropod vectors

Health management tools

Ecosystem health

Zoonoses

Public health / Food safetyTrade and marketing of animal

commodities and products

Welfare

Policy

Livestock health, management and production

Animal health management

Introduction: background,

concepts, context

Livestock health, management and production

Selected helminths

High impact diseases

Livestock production

Poultry production

Wildlife health, management and productionWildlife health, management and production

Introduction: Background, concepts, context

• TFCA’s

• Local reserves

• National reserves

• Conservancies; private

farms

• Other

Conservation of biodiversity

• Animal health

• Drug control

• CITES, NEMBA

Regulatory environment

• Ecotourism

• Game farming

• Game capture and

translocation (mass,

chemical, re-introduction)

• Game meat production

• Intensive breeding

• Hunting (recreational, trophy)

• Other

Wildlife production systems

Emerging and re-emerging diseases

Introduction: Background, concepts, context

Emerging and re-emerging diseases

Diversity of micro-parasite pool

Changes in the abundance, density & distribution of the host (animals and humans)

• Increased human population

• Rapid urbanisation

• Rapidly changing farming systems

• Environmental changes

• Increased mobility of people, animals

and their products

• Lack of biodiversity

• Wildlife reservoirs

• Interface issues

• Climate change

• Disintegration of veterinary services

• Bio-terrorism

Drivers:

Land use

(Agricultural land, conservation,

environmentally sensitive zones)

Climate change

(Impact and threat, management,

monitoring, TPCs)

Natural resource management

(e.g. water, soil, vegetation)

Pollution

(Industrial, commercial, rural, risks)

Ecosystem health and conservation

(Habitat, threats, biodiversity, legislation)

Environmental health

Ecosystem health

Introduction:

Background, concepts, context

Evaluation, monitoring and rehabilitation

Zoonoses

Introduction:


Zoonoses

Wildlife / livestock / human interaction

Socio-economic driversCultural perceptions & animal

husbandry practices

Environment Intervention tools and strategies

Integrated data collection,

management and analysisAdvocacy & policy development

Arthropod vectorsArthropod vectors

Tsetse / biting flies

Ticks

MosquitoesCulicoides (Midges)

Other flies

Introduction:


Surveillance

TherapeuticsVaccination

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Biosecurity

Laboratory diagnostics

Health management toolsHealth management tools

Basic, applied & analytical

epidemiology modules

Risk analysisInformation systems:

Data collection and management

Introduction:


Information and communication

technologies: application

Trade and marketing of animal commodities and products

Economic principles

Trade and marketing of animal commodities and products

Livestock supply chains, marketing channels

and competitiveness

Identification, measurement and

management of risk of animal

commodities and products

Challenges: meeting sanitary &

phyto-sanitary (SPS) and technical barriers

to trade (TBT) standards

Methodologies: safety of animal

production (value) chains

Trade in wildlife and products

derived from wildlife

Traceability requirements Auditing & certification

Introduction:

Background, concepts, context Overview: Trade & marketing

Understanding the consumer

International standard-setting bodies &

the relationship between public &

private standards

Specimen collection

Serology

Molecular biology Parasitology

Bacteriology

Good laboratory practice

Virology

Laboratory DiagnosticsLaboratory Diagnostics

OIE Collaborating Centre website

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Monday 18 January, 2010

About the FMD Bulletin for Southern Africa.

Disease Information Platforms / Bulletins


Target groups

Animal, human and environmental health officers

Master of Science (Animal / Human / Ecosystem Health)

Focus: One Health


This online modular MSc (Animal / Human / Ecosystem Health) supports the

building of capacity of a new generation of professionals to meet the challenges

and issues at the livestock/wildlife/human/ecosystem interface (One Health

approach) including aspects of emerging, re-emerging and transboundary

diseases, zoonoses, public health and food safety, ecosystem health and policy


Focus: One Health


• Zoonoses and emerging / re-emerging diseases: control and management

• Management and Policy

• Risk analysis and surveillance

• Public health and food safety and security

• Wildlife health and production

• Ecosystem health and services

• Laboratory diagnostics

• Others?

Future career paths

Current career paths


Focus: One Health

• Integrated Livestock and Wildlife

Health and Management: 4th year

• Elective module: 6th year

New Undergraduate curriculum

One Health: Training Pipeline

• VetHub including OIE Collaborating Centre

CPD Platform

• ITM / DVTD

Joint degree: MSc

(Animal/Human/Ecosystem

Health)

Thank you!

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Faculty Contract 2012:

Objective 1.6:

Develop Open Content Information

Communication Technology (ITC) Platform

as a mainstream education platform

Prof Koos Coetzer

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Background

• Several meetings were convened in the last couple of months with the

Director of Neil Butcher & Associates to explore the financial viability of

the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Platform on Tropical

Animal Health in the DVTD. Significant financial investment (The

Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases) -- both through its own

resources and via funded projects (e.g. with the Intstitute of Tropical

Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium)

• Neil is also an OER Strategist with South African Institute for Distance

Education (SAIDE) on its new Open Education Resources (OER) Africa

Initiative that is funded by the Hewlett Foundation

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Broad strategy

• To develop a central ICT System for the Faculty as a whole that can be

implemented over a 5 year period. This concept is based on the

assumption that the Faculty would share its educational materials under

an open licence

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Rationale for Using Open Licences

The transformative educational potential of OER revolves around three

linked possibilities:

• Increased availability of high quality, relevant learning materials can

contribute to more productive students and teaching staff.

• The principle of allowing adaptation of materials provides one

mechanism amongst many for constructing roles for students as

active participants in educational processes, who learn best by

doing and creating, not by passively reading and absorbing.

• OER has potential to build capacity by providing institutions and

teaching staff access, at relatively low cost, to the means to create

high quality teaching and learning materials.

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Placing ICT at the Centre of the Faculty

• This approach will make ICT as a central building block for all activities in

the Faculty

• It will provide students very rich learning environments

• Faculty would need to commit to the following operational principles:

• Every student would need to have their own (low-cost) mobile

device

• It will be necessary to establish a Virtual Learning Environment

(VLE) for the Faculty (within ClickUP)

• Develop a repository for all of the content that the Faculty produces

• Content-rich online learning environments be used to shift away

from traditional lecture-based teaching and learning practices

towards blended learning models

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Elements of an Integrated ICT System

• Dedicated Faculty Portal

• Stores and manages all its intellectual capital

• Markets its programmes, research activities, consulting services, etc

• Integrates with a wider range of social and other networking platforms (e.g.

Facebook, Twitter and relevant agricultural and veterinary portals) to build

Veterinary Science communities of practice

Long-term objective of Portal: premier online location of information, resources,

discussion, and interaction about Veterinary Science matters in Africa

• ClickUP will be used as the Faculty VLE and within which online programme and

course services will be arranged

• Proper broadband access for students at Onderstepoort

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Possible Streams of Revenue

Assumption that sustaining the above ICT system is treated as a Faculty

overhead rather than project cost

The following are streams of possible revenue:

• Student fees and government subsidies

• Dedicated content development projects: should be possible to secure

donor, government, or inter-governmental organizational funds working

with Veterinary Science Faculties from around Africa, helping them to

implement similar approaches to teaching and learning

• The more that the Faculty of Veterinary Science can demonstrate the

value of its approach and share its content, the more others will want to

use both. There is significant commercial opportunity in this.

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Action Plan: 2011/2012

• Policy and Procedures Review

• Quality Assurance Systems Review

• Development/upgrade of necessary online content, VLE, database

environment for Faculty

• Teaching and learning materials audit

• Undergraduate programme/s revision plan

• Postgraduate programme/s revision plan

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Financial implications

• 5 workshops will be convened during 2012 to support the listed actions

• ICT system cost

• Database development: teaching and learning materials

• Full-time E-learning/OER specialist

Thank you!

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Deans Meeting Wvc Oct 2011