Thank you to all who attended

 

 

A two-day ‘ONE HEALTH’ Conference
Organised by  “Veterinary Public Health Association & Association of Government Veterinarians”

and supported by the ‘One Health Cambridge’ Committee of Veterinary and Medical Students

We would like to welcome you to attend if you are involved in controlling established and emerging tapeworms: animal owners, farmers, meat industry, vets and medics (and students), scientists, researchers, civil servants and others.

The aim of the Conference is to bring together all relevant stakeholders to review, improve and strengthen UK tapeworm controls with public health and economic significance.
The intended outcomes of the conference are:

• Agree we could do more in controlling these parasites
• Identify current challenges, threats and gaps in control
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What is being done?
• Clarify, refresh and improve the current communication lines between all parties
• Agree refined recommendations for immediate dissemination and action

 Programme 
 

Friday 17 March 2017
2pm • Professor the Lord Trees will open the conference
Followed by a policy discussion on what is being done in the UK to control parasites,

chaired by Professor Michael T. Rogan, Salford University, OIE World Reference Laboratory for chinococcosis/hydatidosis

A policy discussion will involve the representatives from farming
and meat industry, government, BVA Specialist Divisions, researchers and others.

Saturday 18 March 2017
9am Registration starts.  Finish by 3.30pm
The programme will focus on comprehensive scientific aspects of relevant tapeworms and their controls in relevant species.

 

As a part of the Andrew Storrar Memorial lecture, this year there is a CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for POSTER presentations from undergraduate students, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers on the topic of:
Controlling tapeworms: Established and Emerging (with public health and economic significance)

 

There are two categories that POSTERS can be submitted to:

CATEGORY 1: Research Quantitative
Qualitative, lab-­‐based, public health related etc.

CATEGORY 2: Conceptual Idea(s)
Research ideas/proposals, theoretical concepts, policy, discussion point etc.
 

Abstract Guidelines: Please provide the category of the abstract, the title of the abstract, authors, their institutional affiliations (linked to each author via superscripted numbers), followed by the abstract inc. references.

Abstract limit: 300 words maximum, inc. references.

Posters should be A0 sized in portrait orientation.
Submission deadline: 05 March 2017

Please submit posters to Wojciech on wojciech.dec@eandj.co.uk and specify the CATEGORY. You will be notified if your abstract has been accepted for poster presentation and sent further instructions.

Poster Prizes: each category will be awarded:
1st Prize -­‐ £150
2nd Prize -­‐ £80
3rd Prize -­‐ £40

Based on the Judgment Criteria • Design & Originality • Quality • Translational

 

Each winner will also receive a copy of a Textbook, Gracey's Meat Hygiene, 11th Edition, David S. Collins (Editor), Robert J. Huey (Editor), January 2015, ©2014, Wiley-­‐Blackwell

Abstracts and posters will be published on the  VPHA website