The “workshop on outbreak risk management”

Date: 13-14 September 2023

Venue: LBN Hotel, Kampong Cham

Organized by Tufts UNIVERSITY

Background
STOP Spillover is a USAID-funded five-year project led by Tufts University and consisting of 14 organizations and experts in human, animal, and environmental health. It is implemented in 7 countries in Asia and Africa. In Cambodia, the project is implemented by Tetra Tech.

The objective of the workshop
● Involving bat-human interface partners and stakeholders to test or exercise outbreak risk management
coordination aspects.
● brief bat-human interface,
● conduct tabletop exercise to revise and improve proposed scenario on outbreak risk management, and
recommend next steps.

Participants
About 40 participants are involved in this workshop. These are include Bat-guano producing households.
non-bat-guano producing, ministries related to one-health, local and international NGOs

Results
– 5 presentations on the zoonotic and how is pathogens transmission from animal to human and how to prevention from this transmission.
– Field visit to bat producing household (observation on how producer collect bat manure, storage and biosecurity etc).
– Group presentation from the field visit
– Risk management on outbreak from bat virus to human

Thank
Dr. Chhay Ty