Raph is currently working as a post doctoral researcher.
Project Summary:
The Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), the Epidemiology and Surveillance Section (ESS) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), along with the Canadian Swine Health Board (CSHB) are collaborating in a project to apply a modern approach to ongoing surveillance for Trichinella, Brucella, and Pseudorabies in commercial swine.
The project is an extension to the Canadian Swine Surveillance (CanSwineSurv), undertaken by CFIA, and will quantify the probabilities that Canadian commercial swine are free of Trichinellosis, Brucellosis, and Psueodrabies (Aujezsky’s disease). Specifically, modern epidemiological methods, such as scenario tree models, will be used on complex data from multiple sources (e.g. slaughterhouse samples and on-farm samples) to estimate the probability of freedom from disease in the country. The project will initially focus on Trichinellosis, to fully develop the surveillance methods, and in the second phase of the project, both Brucellosis and Pseudorabies will be modelled.
