MOOD Final Workshop

MOOD project (Monitoring Outbreaks for Disease Surveillance) aims to strengthen epidemic intelligence (EI) capacities at European public and animal health (PH/AH) institutions by fostering the early detection, verification, and assessment of new and emerging (zoonotic) infectious diseases. This is achieved by integrating data from many sources, including climate, environment, socio-demographics, and surveillance data, and developing tools into a single, free-access platform. The MOOD platform offers access to diverse datasets, tools and models for effective EI management.

An initial user-needs assessment at the project start drove the platform’s main aim and development. This was followed by several iterations of participatory development, i.e.,  “learning loops.” As a final step in participatory development, a face-to-face user workshop will showcase the MOOD platform and discuss future improvements and use.

Objectives

 

  • Showcase  the MOOD platform to end-users and practitioners i.e., public and veterinary health practitioners, staff of international organizations, scientists and modellers.
  • Collect feedback from the users/practitioners regarding the usefulness of platform.
  • Collect feedback from the users/practitioners regarding the disease models and their use in the daily practice of users.
  • Identify new challenges and needs related to monitoring, assessment and analysis of disease threats.

Program - Final version

Venue - Institute of Tropical Medicine

Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat 155, Antwerp, Belgium.

Audience

Would you like to join us for the last engagement session of the MOOD project? Show us your interest via email at mood-event@cirad.fr.