In October 2010, the last in a series of workshops organized by the OIE (World Organization for Animal Health) in conjunction with one of its collaborating centres, the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre (CCWHC), was held in Bangkok, Thailand.

The workshops were intended for the training of professionals who inform and advise OIE Delegates in their countries about wildlife health. This final workshop, directed at Asian members of the OIE, was delivered by Dr. Ted Leighton, General Director of the CCWHC, and Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust, Regional Director of CCWHC Atlantic Region and Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at AVC. Dr. Daoust is the third member of the CCWHC to deliver one of these workshops. AVC’s Dr. Maria Forzan and Dr. Scott McBurney gave similar workshops in Panama and Tanzania, respectively. The OIE has already asked the CCWHC to start planning the second series of workshops, the first of which is tentatively scheduled to take place in Slovenia in April 2011.