1. World Organisation for Animal Health
Capacity and preparedness: disease surveillance, investigation and response
Kazuaki Miyagishima
World Organisation for Animal Health

2. Threats Public health Animal health Economics Food safety
Food security

3. Animal disease agents as bio weapons
Increased global vulnerability
(food, globalisation, climate)
Impact – actual and perceived (fear)
Not expensive
Relatively easy to acquire, smuggle, propagate, and deliver
Examples - glanders, anthrax, salmonella

4. Global disease surveillance and transparency
OIE Members are responsible for global disease surveillance and report significant disease events to OIE
Outbreaks of OIE listed diseases on a regular basis
Significant epidemiological events including emerging diseases
OIE disseminates these official reports from Members to all Members via an alert system and to the public via WAHID
Parallel mechanism to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR)
Global disease surveillance and transparency
6 month and IN

5. The Global Early Warning and Response System (GLEWS)
joint disease tracking by OIE, WHO, and FAO
combines and coordinates the alert and response mechanisms of OIE, FAO and WHO
assists in prediction, prevention and control of animal disease threats, including zoonoses
validation of rumours is critical

6. Support for global disease detection and response
187 OIE Reference Laboratories in 2009 covering 100 diseases

7. Support for global disease detection and response
35 Collaborating Centres covering 33 topics

8. Outbreak response at the international level
Network of experts (laboratories and collaborating centres)
Technical support
Expert country missions
Joint animal health-public health missions (OIE-WHO-FAO)
In case of suspect claims of bio-terror use involving animal pathogens or zoonoses OIE experts may join a UNODA mission
Include CMC

9. Possible origins of animal disease outbreak
Natural disease outbreaks
Deliberate release (bioterrorism)
Breaches in laboratory bio-containment
New and emerging diseases
“Disease detection and control for a natural, deliberate or accidental release of animal pathogen or emerging pathogen is virtually the same”   

10. OIE actions to strengthen Veterinary Services globally

11. based on 46 core competencies
The OIE-PVS Tool and Gap Analyses
Evaluate and improve the Performance of Veterinary Services
Improve compliance with OIE Standards
Follow-up:
PVS monitoring
Gap analyses
Assistance with legislation
based on 46 core competencies

12. OIE Laboratory twinning
Aims
Improve compliance with OIE standards
Eventually for Candidates to apply for ‘reference’ status
Extend the OIE network of expertise geographically
Outputs
Stronger global disease surveillance networks
Accurate and rapid detection/characterisation of agents
Improved biosafety, biosecurity and bioethics

13. Twinning – increased global disease security.
Strengthened and extended global disease surveillance networks
Biosafety and biosecurity and bioethics are integral to all twinning projects
Improved biosafety and biosecurity in each candidate lab
Stronger national and regional scientific networks
Better employment prospects for experts – less chance of temptation to work for malign groups

14. Building Biosafety/Biosecurity Capacity of Laboratories
BSL definitions and Laboratory Quality standards exist - but there are no “internationally applicable guidelines” or “certifiable international standards” for biosafety/ biosecurity
Training of Public Health and Animal Health Laboratories
EU funding to WHO
“One Health” Initiative