Gwenaelle DAUPHIN
| Organization | FAO |
|---|---|
| Organization type | International Organization |
| Country | Italy |
G. Dauphin is a veterinarian graduated from France. She also has a Master in Microbiology and Ecology and a PhD in animal virology. She worked as a researcher in a food safety bacteriology laboratory and then in an animal virology laboratory of the French Food Safety and Animal Health Public Agency. She joined the animal Health Service of the FAO headquarters in 2006 as the OFFLU (OIE/FAO network of influenza expertise) focal point for FAO. Then she became the head of the Laboratory Unit in 2010. She has since then coordinated and supported several projects on laboratory strengthening in developing countries and launched several initiatives that involve Information and Communication Technologies. These initiatives include linkages between databases or platforms (animal health and pathogen genetic sequence platforms, called the EMPRES-i genetic module), the Laboratory Mapping Tool and its modules and portal, the SOLAR platform that links field animal surveillance data with laboratory data (sample banking and test results).
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum ICTs for Resilience
What is resilience and how can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects? (28 th november)
Resilience of livelihoods and communities to livestock disease threats is essential to break out the poverty cycle and improve food security and nutrition. There is no resilience package per se for animal health at FAO but many animal health projects actually boost resilience of livelihoods and communities. These inputs can be seen from different perspectives, including:
- the work that FAO is doing on avian influenza and other infectious threats of animal origin is a good example of synergies between capacity development and resilience building for the wellbeing of the vulnerable populations;
- all the FAO animal health projects in the field particularly in pastoral communities that are prone to natural disasters are designed to improve their resilience to drought for instance.
- integrated approaches including strategic mass vaccination associated with other control measures such as intensified surveillance to reduce the incidence of disease can significantly contribute to building resilience of livelihoods and communities. A good example is the vaccination programme against the deadly disease called Peste des Petits Ruminants in Somalia, Kenya and other countries in Africa
- there is also evidence that bringing veterinary services to remote areas leads to better nutrition and resilience for pastoralist households.
- when animal disease outbreaks are detected quickly, communities can respond faster, curb epidemics, and save lives. This contributes to building resilient animal health systems.
IT tools can highly contribute to the abovementioned activities and approaches for livestock health that support resilience of livelihoods and communities. Some already do it. IT tools can be animal disease platforms for early disease warning, such as the FAO global EMPRES-i platform. They can also be national or regional platforms. Some mobile apps can help capture the data to be transferred to the information platform. They can also be IT tools to be used for fieldwork, especially to collect information (even pictures) on sites, animals, collected samples during surveillance of animal diseases. These tools ensure standardization of surveillance data, improved data analysis, quality check of these data and traceability. There is a high degree of flexibility on the location and data access to servers for these data. They can also be standardised assessment tools, with their mobile app for easy application and portal to enable data to be stored, compiled and analysed, such as the FAO Laboratory Mapping Tool.