International Avian Influenza and One Health Emerging Issues Summit

Welcome!

The Center of Excellence for Poultry Science at the University of Arkansas is proud to present the International Avian Influenza and One Health Emerging Issues Summit! The hybrid event will be hosted in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA on September 30-October 3, 2024.

What is the International Avian Influenza and One Health Emerging Issues Summit?

Since January 2022, multiple HPAI viruses have infected tens of millions of wild birds, commercial poultry flocks, and more than two dozen species of terrestrial and marine mammals worldwide. This bird flu panzootic has also spread across Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, Europe and even into Antarctica. That is why we decided to modify the scope of the Summit this year. The first day will be to cover HPAI in commercial poultry with talks directly to poultry veterinarians as Dr. Caldwell suggested. The next day will cover the panzootic situation. Nevertheless, as suggested by Dr. Hargis, this year we are including Emerging Issues to cover other important economic diseases affecting commercial poultry, swine, cattle, bees, and humans as One Health.

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Organizing Committee

Inkar Castellanos

University of Arkansas Poultry Health Laboratory

Morgan Farnell

Associate Professor

Texas A&M AgriLife – Poultry Science Department

Magdalena Escorcia

Professor

National University Autonomous of Mexico – Department of Medicine and Zootechnics of Birds

Guillermo Tellez-Isaias

Research Professor

University of Arkansas Poultry Science Department

Alberto Torres

Export Manager

Cobb-Vantress, LLC.

Brian Umberson

Past President and current Board Member of the Arkansas IAFP Chapter and current National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corp) Industry Mentor of biotech start-ups