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Trans-Domain COST Action TD1404 (NEOH)
Training School on “Evaluation of One Health”
for participants from COST inclusiveness countries
Background
The EU COST funded project Network for Evaluation of One Health (NEOH) is offering its third Training School on the topic ”Evaluation of One Health” with the aim to raise awareness and capacity for One Health evaluation.
Basic information
• Dates: 13th to 15th of September 2017
• Location: Faculty of Medicine University of Sarajevo Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Local organisers: Semra Cavaljuga [email protected], Sabina Seric Haracic [email protected]
• Number of trainees to be re-imbursed: 15
• Additional number of people to be accepted without reimbursement (no participation fee applies, but participants need to cover their own costs): 5
• Number of trainers: 5
• Financial provisions: o For trainees attending the training school: A total of EUR 600 (fixed amount) will be paid as a
grant after the meeting. This grant, in accordance with COST regulations, is a contribution to the overall travel, accommodation and meal expenses of the Grantee. No participation fee is required.
o For trainers the standard COST meeting re-imbursement rules apply
Purpose
The purpose of this training school is to give participants and introduction to evaluation in general and One Health evaluation in particular using the framework developed in the Network for Evaluation of One Health. There will be a strong focus on the evaluation of One Health surveillance.
The workshop is suitable for people working in One Health initiatives who want to learn about evaluation approaches in One Health and are considering conducting an evaluation of a One Health initiative, which can be an implementation, education, surveillance project, etc. The Training School will give participants the opportunity to learn about evaluation concepts, approaches and research in other disciplines and to exchange thoughts and ideas with experts in the field.
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Learning outcomes
After completion of the training school, you should be able to
1. Describe the basic concepts of evaluation
2. Summarise how One Health characteristics can be evaluated
3. Plan an evaluation of surveillance
4. Discuss an evaluation design for a One Health initiative of your choice
Eligibility
This workshop is specifically for trainees from COST inclusiveness target countries, namely Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg,
Malta, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Republic of Serbia and Turkey. Trainees do not have to be active members of the Network for
Evaluation of One Health, but can come from any of the countries mentioned above. However, priority will
be given to participants from NEOH participating inclusiveness target countries. Moreover, we will aim to
ensure gender and seniority balance and invite people from a variety of backgrounds. People who have
previously benefitted from a NEOH training school will have secondary priority.
Trainees who want to apply for re-imbursement either need to be employed by or be a PhD student (other
students are not eligible) at an institution in an inclusiveness country, which can be universities, colleges,
research institutes, national NGOs, public bodies, etc, but NOT international organisations, or EU
institutions. The following official COST eligibility criteria apply:
Trainees eligible to be reimbursed: 1. Trainees from COST Full Members / COST Cooperating Member. 2. Trainees from Approved NNC institutions. 3. Trainees from Approved European RTD Organisations. Trainees not eligible to be reimbursed: 1. Trainees from COST Partner Members. 2. Trainees from Approved IPC institutions. 3. Trainees from Approved IO, EU Commission, Bodies, Offices and Agencies. 4. Other Trainees not specifically mentioned as being eligible.
To apply for this opportunity, please click on the following link providing the relevant information by the 8th of August 2017: https://goo.gl/forms/ZiwrhEXFst5fFJVm1. The organising committee will then select the participants for the training school and send people the official invitation.
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Logistics
• Accommodation: Local organisers suggest to contact small but highly reliable travel agency Albatros (www.albatros.com.ba email: [email protected]) and Ms. Medy Vracic. There are numerous hotels in Sarajevo, smaller or larger, with various prices and location.
• Transfer to – from the airport: there is a public transport from/to downtown-airport
http://sarajevo.travel/en/text/city-transport/14
http://www.sarajevo-tourism.com/public-transportation
• Address and map: location of the TS will be at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo Web site:
http://www.mf.unsa.ba, University of Sarajevo: http://unsa.ba
Sarajevo map with Faculty of Medicine marked:
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Programme
13th of SEPTEMBER 2017 (WEDNESDAY)
Time Topic Trainer
09.00-09.15 Welcome and overview of the training school Semra Cavaljuga and Sabina Seric Haracic
09.15-10.45 Overview of the different types of evaluation and basic principles, Part 1
Aleksandra Nikolic & Barbara Häsler
10.45-11.15 Coffee/tea break
11.15-12.30 Overview of the different types of evaluation and basic principles, Part 2
Aleksandra Nikolic & Barbara Häsler
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.00 Theory of change and framing evaluation questions Aleksandra Nikolic & Barbara Häsler
15.00-15.30 Tea/coffee break
15.30-17.00 Break out sessions:
• (Small) group activity to elaborate a Theory of Change for selected One Health initiatives
Facilitators to provide input in discussions
17:15-21:00 Training School dinner Details to be confirmed
14th of September 2017 (THURSDAY)
Time Topic Trainer
09.00-10.30 The evaluation protocol of the Network for Evaluation of One Health – general overview
Semra Cavaljuga and Sabina Seric Haracic
10.30-11.00 Coffee/tea break
11.00-12.30 Evaluation of “One Healthness”: Key concepts and considerations Simon Rüegg
12.30-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.00 Evaluation instruments and integration of multiple outcomes in an evaluation
Sandra Buttigieg
15.00-15.30 Tea/coffee break
15.30-17.30 Break out sessions:
• (Small) group discussion to elaborate proposed design(s)
Facilitators to provide input in discussions
18:00 – 19:00
City walk
No fee
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15th of September (FRIDAY)
Time Topic Trainer
08.30-10.30 Evaluation of surveillance – basic concepts and principles Barbara Häsler
10.30-11.00 Coffee/tea break
11.00-12.00 The RISKSUR tools Marisa Peyre
12.00-13.00 Lunch break
13.00-15.00 Evaluation of One Health surveillance – the ISDS experience John Berezowski
15.00-15.30 Tea/coffee break
15.30-17.00 Presentation of case studies and discussion All participants
Individual departure
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Speaker biographies
Semra Čavaljuga
Prof. Semra Čavaljuga is medical epidemiologist with particular interested in zoonotic diseases and managerial epidemiology. All her degrees she obtained from Faculty of Medicine (FoM), University of Sarajevo (UnSa): MD - 1987: MSc - informatics and health economics, 1995 and DSc – health management, 2003. Board certified epidemiologist became 1995. The US government awarded her with H. H. Humphrey Fellowship 1998 – a year at Emory University and the CDC, Atlanta. Extensive international experience gained consulting agencies and organisations: NATO forces, WHO, WB, UNDP, international visiting professorship…; participating in over 30 major projects and over 100 publications. Since January 2017, as one of the representativec for NEOH Cost project (Network for Evaluation of One Health , European Cooperation in Science and Technology), she has being served as Short Term Scientific Mission Coordinator (STSM). Today she is chairing, as full professor, the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, FoM UnSa she joined in 1989 – teaching various courses in epidemiology, biostatistics and health management.
Sabina Seric-Haracic
Dr Sabina Seric-Haracic, Veterinary faculty of the University of Sarajevo obtained her veterinary medicine degree obtained at the Veterinary faculty Sarajevo (VFS) in 2003, and was hired as assistant. Master of Science program of the Colorado State University (CSU), College of veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences enrolled in 2004, and finished in 2006. Worked as graduate research assistant at the Animal Health Population Institute of the CSU and senior assistant at the VFS from 2006. Doctoral studies begun in 2007 at the VFS and doctoral thesis defended in 2014. Currently hold the position of assistant professor at the VFS. Professional engagement include: animal health consultant for the World Bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Albania (2005/2006), visiting research scientist at the Federal veterinary office of Switzerland (2008), technical consultant aquatic animals epidemiology for the FAO project in Western Balkans (2014/2015).
Non-formal degree training include: internship at the University Autonoma Barcelona, Veterinary faculty (2002), Cochran scholarship program (United States Department of Agriculture - Washington, CSU - Fort Collins, 2003), Netherlands government MTEC program (Wageningen University and research center, 2008), USA government international training course (Fort Collins, 2009), European commission – BTSF programe (Lisabon, 2013), IAEA scholarship (University of Copenhagen, 2013), Animal health surveillance training at University autonoma Barcelona,Veterinary faculty (2015).
Research projects funded by international doners: USDA/CSU – project ¨FMD spread model¨ 2004-2005, EU RED –project ¨Feasibility study for Regional center for food, agriculture and veterinary medicine¨, 2005, Ministry of foreign affairs of Norway and VFS, - project “Curriculum development according to Bologna principles”, 2006-2008, Federal veterinary office of Switzerland - project „Validation of newly developed model approach for the surveillance of Brucela melitensis comparing the Swiss situation with the endemic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina“, 2007, IAEA/VFS – project BOH/5/001 9001 01 “Reducing the Incidence of Brucellosis in Animals and Humans by Surveillance and Control”, 2012-2014, EU DG Education and Culture Erasmus project "Networking to enhance the use of economics in animal health education, policy making and research in Europe and beyond" 2011-2015, TEMPUS project „Public health in the Western Balkans – improvement in the field of public health and development of a “One Health” educational and scientific architecture in Western Balkan countries (1HEALTH)”, 2013-2016, TD Cost action TD 1404 „Network for evaluation of One Health“ – NEOH, 2014-2018.
Aleksandra Nikolic
To be completed
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Simon Rüegg
Dr Simon Rüegg is a animal health researcher from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and one of the NEOH Working Group 1 leaders. He completed a doctorate (DVM) and a PhD in epidemiology, biostatistics and molecular diagnostics of tick-borne equine piroplasmoses. Throughout field projects in southern Mongolia and as a veterinary practitioner he gained a solid understanding of practical aspects of veterinary medicine and epidemiology. From 2013 he worked as postdoc at the Veterinary Public Health Institute at the Vetsuisse-Faculty of Bern conducting an EMIDA project on cost efficacy of surveillance for vector-borne diseases. In September 2013 he has joined the Veterinary Epidemiology Group in Zurich as senior research assistant and lecturer. He also participates in the statistic consultancy. His research interest is the application of the theory of complex adaptive systems to medicine, in particular its impact on the medical decision making process, the relation between scientific, emotive, financial, ethical and social aspects, and the sustainability of medical practices. He also investigates the application of complex dynamical systems metrics to medical time series and is involved in several epidemiological investigations in Switzerland.
Barbara Häsler
Dr Barbara Häsler, NEOH chair, graduated in veterinary medicine from the University of Bern in 2002 and then did a doctoral thesis at the Swiss Federal Veterinary Office on the epidemiology and economics of neosporosis control. After working as a border veterinary inspector, she joined the Royal Veterinary College, where she did a PhD on the economics of animal health surveillance while simultaneously studying for a Certificate of Higher Education in Economics. Since 2012 she has been working (first as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and now as a lecturer in Agrihealth) for the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH), Royal Veterinary College. Her main area of interest is the integration of economic, social and epidemiological aspects in animal disease mitigation to provide practical and feasible tools that support decision-makers in the efficient allocation of resources. She is particularly committed to the development of interdisciplinary frameworks that support appropriate surveillance and intervention programmes for the control of foodborne and zoonotic diseases in food systems both in the developed and developing world.
Marisa Peyre
Dr Marisa Peyre is an epidemiologist from CIRAD whose primary research interests are the understanding of population immunity against infectious animal and zoonotic diseases and the development of decision tools for better design and evaluation of surveillance and control strategies. She graduated in biotechnology engineering in France, before doing a PhD in Immunology in London and receiving additional training in Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics. She works in the field of infectious diseases in tropical countries, coordinating the REVASIA research program in South East Asia, is an expert member of the OFFLU OIE/FAO influenza network and has relevant expertise on evaluation of animal disease management systems (surveillance and control) and participatory approaches.
John Berezowski
Dr John Berezowski spent 18 years in food animal practice in Western Canada before completing his PhD in epidemiology in 2004. He then began pursuing his interests in surveillance epidemiology by designing, leading and participating in large and small surveillance projects for the Alberta Veterinary Surveillance Network of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development. He currently leads a small group of dedicated and very creative researchers at the Veterinary Public Health Institute at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He has a strong interest in developing new surveillance methodologies and has published, presented and taught in the field. His current research focus is on integrated approaches to surveillance especially method development to support knowledge generation form complex real-time surveillance, by combining data from many varied sources (human, livestock, wildlife, and environment) and across complete livestock based food supply chains
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Practical information
Sarajevo downtown with Faculty of Medicine marked:
Contact For further information, please contact Barbara Haesler ([email protected]) for general enquiries, Houda
Bennani for financial questions ([email protected]), or Semra Cavaljuga and
([email protected]) and Sabina Seric Haracic ([email protected]) for questions
related to local arrangements or the programme.
