Top Products from FAZD Center Research and Education

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Top Products from FAZD Center Research and
Education

• USAHA Committee on Diagnostic Laboratory and
  Veterinary Workforce Development
• October 12, 2009
• Neville Clarke

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FAZD Center Themes
Education and Outreach EO
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EOS - Vision

• Provide modern science-based education and
  training for FAZD defense through innovative
  delivery mechanisms
• Implement effective career development programs

• Prepare and train next generation of experts
• Serve the diverse spectrum of communities and
  practitioners currently involved in the defense
  of high-consequence FAZDs

The development of such a trained population is
perhaps the most critical component in protecting
two of the nations most critical
infrastructures agriculture and public health.
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EOS - Continuity

• Successes
• Masters degree programs in veterinary public
  health
• Avian influenza training for early responders
• Train-the-trainers programs for FAZDs
• MSI-partnered communication network for
  underserved and non-commercial livestock and fowl
  owners
• Stakeholder workshops on mass animal mortality
• Engagement with minorities and Minority Serving
  Institutions
• Risk communication training on exotic animal
  diseases
• Career Development Program
• Awards and honors for DHS Scholars and Fellows

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FAZD Center Student Support
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EOS Thematic Structure
Education and Outreach Theme
Project Integration
Building on solid science foundation ? Projects
and products worth doing
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International Scientific Forum to Consider
Cutting-edge Innovations for FAZD Defense

• 42 leading U.S. scientists and specialists from
  major universities, national labs, government
  agencies and private industry
• Cutting-edge innovations in zoonotic disease
  defense
• 22 presentations and nine panels covering four
  themes
• Two-day event in Landsdowne, Va., Nov. 2008

• Considered new biological paradigms via
  laboratories and computer simulations.
• Discussed role of visual analytics in exploring
  relationships within biological data.
• Media visibility Reuters, Yahoo News, Google
  News, Dallas Morning News, others

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Publication of a Field Guide to Disposal of Large
Numbers of Dead Animals Following a Catastrophe

• Designed as a reference for training and
  operations in preparing and disposing of
  contaminated animal and plant materials
• For landowners, private industry, animal
  producers, and local, state, federal, and
  military governmental agencies
• Blue Ribbon Award -- American Society of
  Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
• Available for online download at
  http//fazd.tamu.edu/fieldguide

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Animal Health Network System to Alert
Non-Commercial Livestock Owners about Disease
Outbreaks

• Most difficult audiences to reach small,
  non-commercial owners of livestock
• Often the source for devastating outbreaks
• Pilot program in six states AR, KY, MT, NC, TN
  and TX
• Message can flow from the state veterinarian to
  the feed retailer and customers within 48 hours
  or less
• Network of 50 state veterinarians, 2,700
  extension educators, and 6,700 feed retailers
• Adoption in several states most recently in the
  state of Michigan
• Endorsed and used by the USDA Extension Disaster
  Education Network (EDEN)

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Projected Adoption by 2014

• Capacity to reach
• 3,314,250 Livestock and Poultry Owners
• 2,022,627 Non-commercial Livestock and Poultry
  Owners

• Through a network of
• 50 State Veterinarians
• 2,700 Extension Educators
• 6,700 Feed Retailers

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Core Library

• Years 1-5 building
• Future steps
• One Health Creation
• Multilayered access program
• Searched based on profession
• Links to risk communication
• Cultural competency
• Cultural risk assessment and plan development
• Unlike current zoonoses resources

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Example H1N1 2009

• Integration of human and animal surveillance
• Just in time education for animal and human
  providers
• H1N1 postings at poultry/swine producers
• Outreach to larger organizations

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Career Development

• Goal Prepare the future foreign animal and
  zoonotic disease defense workforce for careers in
  homeland security.
• Objectives
• 10.1 Increase public and private sector homeland
  security professional workforce pool with
  effectively trained FAZD defense practitioners,
  researchers, and educators
• 10.2 Promote HS-STEM opportunities in FAZD
  critical disciplines for minorities and MSIs
• 10.3 Develop relevant scientific curricula in
  conjunction with innovative educational delivery
  methods with increased emphasis on students at
  earlier ages and multiple levels for
  HS-STEM-critical careers

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Responding to Needs

• From HSPD-9 ...provide capacity building grants
  to colleges and schools of veterinary medicine,
  public health, and agriculture that design higher
  education training programs for veterinarians in
  exotic animal diseases, epidemiology, and public
  health as well as new programs in plant diagnosis
  and treatment.
• From original DHS BAA "The nation needs to build
  capacity for research and training into foreign
  animal and high consequence zoonotic diseases.
  Describe approaches to increase the number of
  students in key disciplines supporting animal
  health and disease prevention, including
  veterinary pathology, immunology, epidemiology,
  and microbiology.
• From recent GAO report (GAO-09-178 )
  VETERINARIAN WORKFORCE Actions Are Needed to
  Ensure Sufficient Capacity for Protecting Public
  and Animal Health

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Masters degree programs in veterinary public
health

• UC Davis and Texas AM University
• New courses
• New courses at Texas AM
• Risk Analysis, Disease Detection and Surveillance
• Spatial Epidemiology
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Economics of Bio-security (Dept. of Ag. Econ.)
• New/modified courses at UC Davis
• Policy and Risk Communication
• Animal Health Policy
• Epidemiologic Study Design
• Introduction to Information Management
• Wildlife Health and Ecosystems

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Value Added Properties for Students

• Participation in education, internship, exchange,
  and employment opportunities
• DHS ST network including the DHS Students and
  Fellows Association
• Multi-institutional and interdisciplinary studies
  and collaborations tailored educational pathway
  congruent with DHS needs
• Showcasing work at the national level as
  facilitated by the COE and DHS
• Exposure to world-class scientific and
  educational leadership
• Access to facilities not generally open to
  students, such as the Plum Island Animal Disease
  Center
• High probability of desirable employment in a
  number of fields after graduation in government,
  academic, and private sectors

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DHS Scholars and Fellows

• Internships
• NORTHCOM
• USDA/APHIS
• USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Defra (United Kingdom)
• Recognition
• Presentation to DHS ST Under Secretary Jay M.
  Cohen
• First place, DHS summit poster contest

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Employment Further Education in HS Organizations

• CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service
• USDA-APHIS
• State agencies
• US Army
• PhD candidacies and postdoctoral pursuits COEs
  and National labs, PIADC

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DHS Career Development Awards

• 900,000 awarded to date
• Allows extension of existing programs and insures
  pipeline of students entering HS-FAZD defense
  careers
• Three main focus areas for recruitment
• DVM professional builds off existing program
• Minorities and MSIs diversity critical
• Research bridges to FAZD critical goals
  biological laboratories at UTMB, PIADC

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Development of Current and Future Anticipated
Goals
Career Development Workshop

• Goal Improve and enhance the FAZD-HS workforce
  through stakeholder input from multiple agencies
  gap analysis and needs assessment
• Agencies represented DHS, USDA, DoD, DOE, CDC,
  National and State diagnostic laboratories, State
  Public Health Departments, private sector
• Expected outcomes Curriculum development/attenuat
  ion, development of list of core competencies
  needed for successful careers in federal, state,
  and private HS-FAZD operations, research,
  education and outreach
• Collaboration with NCFPD

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Development of Current and Future Anticipated
Goals
Career Development Resource Center

• A pilot database framework and core modules for
  an online Career Resource Center has been
  developed
• Recruitment materials and forms for prospective
  students
• Facilitated methods for metrics tracking past
  and present FAZD center students
• Listing of career as well as intern- and
  externship opportunities at DHS and other venues

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Development of Current and Future Anticipated
Goals

• Innovative Educational Modules and Delivery
  Systems

• K-12 and community college emphasis engage
  students at multiple levels
• Leverage from existing Vet. Tech. programs, 4H,
  FFA inject pilot curricula and increase
  awareness of opportunities related to HS
• Evaluate and employ modern e-learning techniques
  and IT tools - Engagement has already been made
  with a DHS SBIR-funded private company (Words and
  Numbers, www.wordsandnumbers.com)
• Integration with IAS theme simulation and
  gaming methods

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U. S. Army Veterinary Corps Fellowship

• Proposal Establish a Foreign Animal and Zoonotic
  Disease fellowship program for U.S. Army
  Veterinary Corps
• early to mid career officers assigned to the FAZD
  Center
• Joint meeting
• Col. Gary Vroegindewey, Director, DOD Service
  Activity and
• Col. Leslie Huck, Commander U.S. Army Europe
  Regional Veterinary Command (ERVC)
• confirmed intent in establishing the fellowship
• Duration 1-3 years depending on background of
  Fellow and level of academic training involved

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Minority and Minority Serving Institutions
Involvement

• Vision Create a well qualified HS-STEM educated
  workforce for FAZD defense that reflects the
  ethnic diversity and makeup of America
• Implement effective outreach programs for
  underserved and minority operators
• Infectious disease agents do not discriminate
• Different cultural practices regarding animal
  human environment interface can lead to serious
  infectious disease scenarios

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Mission

• Build on existing MSI relationships research
  and education
• Develop institutional capacity in these
  institutions as appropriate
• Recruit minority students and scholars and
  fellows from MSIs in both long term and summer
  research education
• Develop cultural competency in conjunction with
  above to address FAZD vulnerabilities associated
  with underserved and minority operations and
  communities - outreach

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Summary of FAZD Center Students
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Existing MSI Relationships
Texas AM University at Kingsville

• Hispanic Serving Institution
• Home of Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research
  Institute
• Joint wildlife research and education projects
  directly related to Center mission (e.g. feral
  swine, wildlife livestock interface, Avian
  Influenza surveillance in migrating birds)
• Summer research team studied mosquito vector
  competence for Rift Valley Fever virus
  transmission with FAZD investigators

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Existing MSI Relationships
University of Puerto at Ponce

• Hispanic Serving Institution
• Summer research team studied Avian Influenza
  detection and surveillance techniques, virus
  receptor specificity with Center PI
• Follow on funding from DHS and FAZD Center has
  enabled institutional development at UPR new
  lab and HS-STEM programs implemented
• Important collaborative partnership with Center
  established
• Three student interns returning to FAZD Center
  this summer

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Summer Research Team University of Puerto Rico
Ponce Avian Influenza Project
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Existing MSI Relationships
Jackson State University

• Historically Black College or University (HBCU)
• Avian flu school training recipient
• Further interest in FAZD mission has led to
  collaborative engagement with Bioinformatics in
  Biodefense Career Development Program at JSU
• FAZD Career Development scholarship and
  fellowship recruitment for JSU students to
  facilitate joint productive research
• Joint proposal development for additional
  external research funding

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Animal Health Network MSI Participants

• Prairie View AM University
• North Carolina AT University
• Kentucky State University
• Tennessee State University
• University of Arkansas Pine Bluff
• Chief Dull Knife College
• Salish Kootenai College

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FAZD Career Development Program

• Recruitment of minorities and MSI students a
  priority project
• Facilitated by DHS Career Development award
• Provides rich opportunities for integration into
  academic capabilities of the COE
• Provides bridges into research opportunities at
  MSI institutions

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MSI Outreach Hispanic Leaders in Agriculture and
the Environment (HLAE)

• Director Dr. Manuel Piña, College of
  Agriculture and Life Sciences
• Texas AM University
• Goal Increase the number of Hispanic leaders in
  governmental and non-governmental organizations,
  colleges and universities, and private industries
  related to agriculture and the environment.
• Approach M.S. and Ph.D. Fellowship Programs
  that are distinguished by four overlapping and
  complementary strands of work
• Graduate coursework at a partner university
• Research that is linked with a Hispanic community
  
• Organizational leadership development
• Policy analysis training

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MSI Outreach Minorities in Agriculture, Natural
Resources, and Related Sciences (MANNRS)
Annual Career Fair and Training Conference March
26-28, 2009 Indianapolis, IN FAZD Panel
Presentation Career Pathways A
Multidisciplinary Approach to Support Minority
Advancement for Integrated Career Opportunities
at the Convergence of Human, Animal and
Environmental Health Sciences
Goal To increase minority awareness in colleges
and universities about career pursuits in the
public (governmental and non-governmental
agencies) and private (industry) sectors, in the
fields of responsibility related to One Health
and Homeland Security.
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FAZD Panel at MANNRS Annual Career Fair and
Training Conference
Larissa Schmidt, SPHR Director of Human
Resources Texas Animal Health Commission
Floron Faries Jr., DVM, MS Professor and
Extension Program Leader for Veterinary Medicine
TAMU Cheryl Scott, RN, MP, DVM, MPVM
OneMedicine-OneHealth Program Director UC-Davis
School of Veterinary Medicine Heather Simmons,
DVM, MSVPH Department of Veterinary Integrative
Biosciences TAMU Tom Powdrill, DVM,
MS Assistant Director for Education and External
Affairs FAZD Center
"MANRRS promotes academic and professional
advancement by empowering minorities in
agriculture, natural resources, and related
sciences."
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MSI Outreach Society for the Advancement of
Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Annual National Conference October
15-18, 2009 Dallas,TX
FAZD Workshop Assessing Your Options and
Defining Your Goals Is a Career at the Interface
of Human, Animal and Environmental Health
Sciences the Right Path for You?

• Session Goals
• To increase the amount of minority student
  awareness for career opportunities within One
  Health and Homeland Security.
• To address the current needs and issues (i.e.
  leadership, professional development, and
  stakeholder communication) in workforce
  development as it relates to zoonotic, emerging,
  and exotic diseases.
• To inform minority students of current gaps in
  workforce development within government, research
  and education.
• To foster future employment initiatives within
  the One Health initiatives.

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FAZD Panel at SACNAS Annual National Conference
TOPIC Leadership 9 indicators for institutional
change in the public or private
sector Transitioning from Student to
Professional Doing Science in the Public
Eye Options for a Department of Defense
Career The human-animal-wildlife interface
implications in zoonotic diseases Emergency
Management and Preparedness Whats it all about?
PRESENTERS
Manuel Piña, Jr., M.S., P.h.D. Director -
HLAE Ted Mashima DVM, DACZM, DACVPM Director of
Academic Affairs and Research American
Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges
Luis Rodriguez DVM, PhD Foreign Animal Disease
Research Leader Plum Island Animal Disease
Center Captain Jocelin Blake, DVM Branch
Chief Fort Bliss Vet Services Branch Tyler
Campbell, PhD Research Wildlife Biologist and
Station Leader USDA-APHIS-Wildlife Services
TAMU-Kingsville Dana Beckham DVM Chief
Epidemiologist Department of Human Health
Services Galveston County Health District
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Other Targeted Engagements with Minorities and
MSIs

• UCD Veterinary School - working group discussions
  of barriers to higher education for minorities ?
  targeted recruitment materials and methods for
  minority cultures and MSIs
• UCD One Medicine-One Health program DVD and
  written material targeted for MSIs
• FAZD participation and presentation of
  opportunities at DHS University Programs
  Technical Assistance Workshops
• Blackfeet Community College, Browning, MT
• Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
• Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
• Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA

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Outcomes for FAZD Centers Partnerships with
Minority Serving Institutions
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Masters degree programsin veterinary public
health

• UC Davis and Texas AM University
• Externships
• USDA (Mexico City)
• DHS (Plum Island)
• International (Africa, EU, Latin America)
• Lawrence Livermore National Lab
• NORTHCOM Surgeon General

Amy Pohl, a veterinarian graduate student in
Texas AMs Masters of Veterinary Public Health
program, as well as the Bush School of Government
and Public Service serving internship at NORTHCOM
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Examples of Student Projects

• Bradley Bates from Texas AM University-Kingsville
  
• Establishing A Safe and Effective Model System
  for Evaluating the Rift Valley Fever Vector
  Competence of North American Mosquitoes.
• Noriad de Jesus-Valazquez, University of Puerto
  Rico-Ponce
• Understanding Avian Influenza Virus  Infection,
  Pathogenicity and Prevalence.
• Isolation of AIV from wild waterfowl. In vivo
  characterization of recombinant AIV.
• Identification of AIV receptors in different
  avian species.
• Amy Delgado, Texas AM University,
• Effects of Foreign Animal Disease Outbreaks on
  United Kingdom Animal Health Policy 
  Implications for Emergency Response in the United
  States.
• Amy Hagerman, Texas AM University,
• Economic Impact Analysis of Foot and Mouth
  Disease in the Texas High Plains.
• Kelly Matthews, Texas AM University,
• Early Detection/Rapid Response to Foreign Animal
  and Zoonotic Diseases Through a County Animal
  Security and Health Network.

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Examples of Student Projects- Continued

• Francisco Monge-Navarro, University of California
  at Davis,
• Development of Rapid and Inexpensive Diagnostic
  Kits for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Rift Valley
  Fever.
• Lindsey Holmstrom, University of California at
  Davis
• Parameterization of the Multi-Scale
  Epidemiologic/Economic Simulation and Analysis
  (MESA) Model of Classical Swine Fever Virus.
• Blayne Mosizek, Department of Veterinary
  Pathobiology Texas AM University.
• Development of a Luminex assay for subtyping of
  AIV-specific sera.
• Dayna Cox Texas AM University.
• Use of a VEE replicon for expression of AIV
  proteins.
• Joannie Gonzalez. University of Puerto Rico
  Ponce.
• Isolation of AIV from wild waterfowl. Expression
  of AIV proteins using a VEE replicon.
• Paullette Velez. University of Puerto Rico Ponce.
  
• Isolation of AIV from wild waterfowl. Expression
  of AIV proteins using a VEE replicon.
• Vinayak Brahmakshatriya, Department of Poultry

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Avian Flu School

• Education and outreach are cross-cutting themes
  at all stages
• There are not enough of us so
• Avian flu school is a train the trainer
  curriculum covering
• Basics of the virus
• Prevention, response and recovery
• Surveillance
• Public and worker health
• Community communications

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Avian Flu School
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Avian Flu School
Avian Flu School A Training Approach to Prepare
for H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Daniel Beltran-Alcrudo,DVM, MS David A. Bunn,
MS Christian E. Sandrock, MD Carol J. Cardona,
DVM, PhD
Public Health Reports / MayJune 2008 / Volume 123
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Train-the-Trainers Programs and Publications
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FEAD On-Line Course
http//courses.extension.org
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Contact information

• Dr. Neville P. Clarke, Director
• Phone [phone]
• Email n-clarke_at_tamu.edu
• Mail 2129 TAMU, Texas AM University, 77843
• Web fazd.tamu.edu