The fifth and final edition of our newsletter is online. In this newsletter you will find a nice farewell letter from our COST Action Chair Inge Santman-Berends, a…
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A shiny app to present the results of WP1 has been developed
Within WP1 we created an overview of non-regulated cattle diseases in the European Union for which control programmes (CPs) are in place within Member States (MS) (https://sound-control.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Deliverable-1.1-version-9.pdf). Within…
SOUND control final conference 19-20 September in Athens, Greece
On 19 and 20 September, a very well organized final SOUND control conference was held in beautiful Athens, Greece. With more than 50 participants from 20 countries being…
SOUND control members at ISVEE16 in Halifax
One year later than planned, the 16th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE16), entitled “Connecting Animals, People, and their shared environments“, was held in Halifax, Canada,…
Training School “Scenario Tree Modelling” in Ljubljana
In June 2022, twenty participants attended the 3-day training school on scenario tree modelling (STM) in Ljubljana. The aim of STM is to quantitatively analyse multiple complex components…
E-Book “Global Control and Eradication Programmes For Cattle Diseases”
An important part of the SOUND control COST Action has been to identify and describe as many as possible of the control and eradication programmes for endemic diseases…
Webinar “Biosecurity Enhanced Through Training Evaluation and Raising Awareness – A new COST Action to improve biosecurity in livestock” by Alberto Allepuz
The webinar about COST Action BETTER was presented by Alberto Allepuz. Alberto is a veterinary epidemiologist working at the Department of Animal Health and Anatomy of the Autonomous…
Webinar “HARMONY: Novel tools for test evaluation and disease prevalence estimation” by Polychronis Kostoulas
The webinar about COST Action HARMONY was presented by Polychronis Kostoulas. Polychronis is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Artificial Intelligence with a research focus on BLCMs for…
Webinar “The new Animal Health Law: focusing on BVD and IBR” by Maria Guelbenzu
The webinar “The new Animal Health Law and it’s implications for List C, D and E diseases: focusing on BVD and IBR” was presented by Maria Guelbenzu. Maria…
Working Group 2 delivered the final report
The Working Group on data collection (WG2) delivered the final report. WG2 developed several tools to collect data on the cattle sector and control programmes for infectious diseases…