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Biosecurity

Research Question

Effective and efficient biosecurity protocols

Research Gaps and Challenges

Cost-effective tools and strategies to improve in farm biosecurity
Contextualize and adapt standard biosecurity measures in local settings?
Education of small-holder farmers (e.g. training on better practices to
be used)
Aging and variable poultry housing systems
Getting producer and worker engagement to do biosecurity everyday
Showing that there is value in everyday biosecurity

Solution Routes

Assess existing biosecurity measures: their efficiency, their cost-effectiveness, their gaps (what is still missed)
Separate biosecurity into easily understood parts – within farm hygiene/sanitation to reduce between animal spread VS outside the farm entry and exit practices to reduce infection of the farm or other farms
Optimise protocols to clean/disinfect premises in varied settings considering trade-off among safety and environmental/workers impact
Identify potential sources of virus entry or contamination per premises
Targeted measures to prevent introduction of influenza viruses
Biosecurity protocols around composting activities to avoid wildlife scavengers to disseminate virus-evaluate the risk of wildlife infection and spread
Sewage treatment protocols, impact on diseases control
Practical and effective DPI for workers
Tools for removal and killing virus in the ventilation systems
Tests for farm-workers (carrier state in humans)
Operational biosecurity competency evaluations
Effective disinfectants for wide use without adverse effects on human health
Quantitative measure of mitigating impacts of various biosecurity protocols
Economics of biosecurity- both in routine production to reduce incursions of endemic pathogens and during outbreaks to prevent
spread and reduce duration of outbreak
Structural biosecurity that overcomes on farm operational biosecurity compliance failures
Using scaled-up approach to biosecurity implementation in smallholder farms
Alternative biosecurity protocols for low resource areas
Standardized questionnaires to be able to compare and analyze biosecurity measures
Modelling with biosecurity measures