Training animal disease detectives
in the Asia-Pacific
Training animal disease detectives in the Asia-Pacific
The APCOVE Training Package is now available in six languages
The APCOVE Training Package is
now available in six languages.
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What is APCOVE?
APCOVE is a consortium of more than 40 veterinary epidemiologists, established to strengthen field veterinary epidemiology capacity in the Asia Pacific region.
APCOVE works with government animal health authorities and educators in the Asia-Pacific region. We help train animal disease detectives to detect, prevent and control animal disease outbreaks that may impact human health, animal health and farmer livelihoods.
APCOVE is led by the University of Sydney and includes veterinary epidemiologists from all veterinary schools of Australia and New Zealand and animal health experts from eight countries in the Asia Pacific.
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Animal disease detectives
APCOVE helps to train animal disease detectives to protect both animal and human health.
Surveillance
Animal disease detectives conduct animal disease surveillance so that diseases are detected early on before they get a chance to spread.
Outbreak investigation
Animal disease detectives investigate outbreaks to identify the source of each outbreak and to contain its spread.
One Health
We believe that the health of animals, humans and the environment is interlinked. Therefore, we aim to eliminate siloed approaches to dealing with health issues at the human-animal-environment interface.
One Health recognises interconnections between humans, animals and the shared environment, and focusses on dealing with health issues holistically through collaboration.
We work with animal and public health organisations in the Asia Pacific region to develop the knowledge and skills of veterinarians in One Health. This will better enable them to work with diverse teams involving people from public health and wildlife health, to improve communication and policy for disease investigation and surveillance.
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