Keywords
Scientific and Technical Review, Vol. 39 (2)
Editor: G.A. Vroegindewey
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
August 2020
321 pages
ISBN: 978-92-95115-57-6
DOI: 10.20506/rst.issue.39.2.3084
This issue of the Scientific and Technical Review covers strategies aimed at building sustainable capabilities for national contingency planning and response, engaging with future technologies to enhance disaster resilience, promoting animal welfare and protecting responders. Case studies are also included that provide examples of previous disaster events, their impacts on animal populations and the responses by Veterinary Services to these events. These serve to provide lessons learned from such events so veterinary preparedness and response capabilities can be improved for the future.
Contents:
- Preface – Disaster prevention and preparedness
- Introduction – Disaster prevention and preparedness
- Best practices for after-action review: turning lessons observed into lessons learned for preparedness policy
- Best practices in veterinary personal protective equipment
- Case study: the animal health sector’s response to Hurricane Irma in Cuba
- Climate change and other risk drivers of animal health and zoonotic disease emergencies: the need for a multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach to disaster risk management
- Detecting national human enteric disease outbreaks linked to animal contact in the United States of America
- Emergency management at the health and security interface
- Emergency operations centres: models and core principles
- Emergency preparedness and response to African swine fever in the People’s Republic of China
- Genomics and climate change
- Good emergency management practices: a review of the core principles, with a focus on preparedness
- Inclusion of Veterinary Services in national emergency management plans
- Innovating at the human–technology interface in disasters and disease outbreaks
- Integrating animal welfare into disaster management using an ‘all-hazards’ approach
- Legislative framework for national contingency planning and response
- Managing complex emergencies
- Preparing for animal health emergencies: considerations for economic evaluation
- Prevention and preparedness: biosecurity, early warning and contingency planning
- Provincial Veterinary Services respond to drought in South Africa
- Securing access to personnel and materials in transboundary animal disease responses
- Technological disasters and Veterinary Services
- The gulf between emergency plans and the resources needed: a global review
- The role of Veterinary Services in areas of conflict
- The role of laboratories in animal-related disasters and emergencies
- The role of military forces in emergency management (civil–military interaction)
- The role of vaccine banks in resilience, response and recovery in respect of animal diseases
- Veterinary Services: health, safety and wellness for veterinary professionals in disaster preparedness and response
- Conclusions – Disaster prevention and preparedness: observations from the coronavirus pandemic
