Marrying technical progress and knowledge integration for better One Health outcomes in agrifood systems

Venue: Sheikh Zayed Center, FAO, Rome, Italy

Hybrid Event, 20/10/2022

Background

This session is directed at people who are interested in seeing how One Health science and innovation can make a difference in the agrifood system transformation. Participants will be able to explore how we can integrate technical progress and, knowledge sharing through in-depth discussions with the One Health experts invited for the occasion.

Objectives

To highlight the opportunities that arise for better "One Health" outcomes from latest developments in whole genome sequencing and genomics
To showcase how innovations in this area are changing access to genomic based information and solutions and discuss how national policies are important to capture the benefits of innovation.

Key-note speaker

Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Research Director, Environment and infectious risks, Institut Pasteur

Target audience

This session is directed at people who are interested in seeing how One Health science and innovation can make a difference in the agrifood transformation system. This event will explore how we can integrate technical progress and knowledge sharing. The session will be structured and moderated in such a way that makes it accessible to a broad, non-specialist audience.

Draft agenda

9:00-9:05	Opening	Keith Sumption Chief, Joint Zoonotic Diseases and AMR Centre (CJWZ) Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO)/ Leader Animal Health Programme (NSAH) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, ITALY
9:05-9:20	Keynote speech: Genomics and One Health surveillance	Jean-Claude Manuguerra Research Director, Environment and infectious risks, Institut Pasteur Paris, France
Panel with two thematic areas: 1. Technical progress and OH surveillance in agrifood systems 2. The Innovation environment - Increasing the pace of change and access to innovations at country level Moderator: Sasha Koo Oshima, Deputy Director and Head of Water at the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO)
	Scaling innovations to make them cost effective and implementable at country and regional level to drive productive sustainable agriculture while combatting climate change	Itzik Mizrahi Professor, Faculty of Life Sciences Ben Gurion University of the Negev Be'er-Sheva, Israel
9:20-10:00	Technical developments for a better understanding of AMR and pathogens in the production system environment	Heike Schmitt Professor, ‘Antibiotic resistance in the water cycle' National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Bilthoven, The Netherlands
	Using genomic approaches to develop surveillance and interception systems based on detailed knowledge of emerging pathogens and their environmental interactions	Gerald Misinzo Professor OR Tambo Africa Research Chair for Viral Epidemics, SACIDS Foundation for One Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
	Application of phylodynamics to help tackle viral diseases using a One Health approach. *	Oliver Pybus Vice Principal for Research & Innovation, Royal Veterinary College London Professor of Evolution & Infectious Disease, University of Oxford London, UK
	Knowledge sharing and use of innovation to serve the development and implementation of One Health public policies*	Adjaratou Diakhou Ndiaye Permanent Secretary of One Health Platform in Senegal Dakar, Senegal
	EU research initiatives the European Commission has on the implementation of the One health approach in the agrifood systems.	Kerstin Rosenow European Commission, DG AGRI, Head of Unit F2 Research and Innovation Brussels, Belgium
	Anthropological perspectives on marrying technical progress and innovation	Salome Bukachi Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology, University of Nairobi Member, One Health High Level Expert Panel, OHHLEP Nairobi, Kenya
Translating progress in genomics into measurable benefits – Reflections and Q&A session Moderator: Keith Sumption (FAO)
10:00-10:40	Discussion	All
10:40-10:45	Closure	FAO Deputy Director General, Maria Helena Semedo

* To be confirmed

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