Regional symposium on pig research and
ILRI One Health activities updates Q1 2019
Chi Nguyen1, Fred Unger1, Tamsin Barnes2, Trang Le3 and Hung Nguyen-Viet1
1. International Livestock Research Institute
2. University of Queensland 3. Consultant
One Health Communication Network Meeting
Hanoi, Vietnam, 22 January 2019

Outline
• Updates on the regional symposium on research into
pig production, health and pork safety
• Other One Health, AMR activities at ILRI 2018
onwards

Objectives:
• Share experiences and challenges in
research on smallholder pig health,
production and pork safety;
• Discuss and explore gender aspects in
pig and pork production;
• Facilitate inter-country and intra-country
networks on pig research including the
South-South exchange;
Regional symposium on research into pig production,
health and pork safety, 27-29 March 2019

Regional symposium on research into pig production,
health and pork safety, 27-29 March 2019
Key facts and date:
Event 2 day symposium and 1 day field visit
Date 27-29 March 2019
Location
Pullman Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam (for
Symposium) & In a province (for field visit)
Submission
deadlines
For abstracts and scholarship – extended to
28 January 2019
Notification
For abstracts and scholarship – Monday, 28
January 2019 (ICT)
Registration
fee
Symposium 100 USD, field day 30 USD
> 50 expected participants from Asia, Pacific,
Australia and Africa

Regional symposium on research into pig production,
health and pork safety, 27-29 March 2019
Call for abstracts:
• Topics:
• Pig nutrition/husbandry;
• Pig health and improved diagnostics;
• Zoonoses and food safety including antimicrobial resistance (AMR);
• Social science, gender and equity in the pig value chain;
• Developing a sustainable, affordable, welfare-friendly and safe
smallholder pig value chain;
• Interventions, successes and challenges on the above topics;
• Format: Oral presentation/Poster
• Deadline for submission: 21 Jan 2019 – late abstracts to be
considered

Regional symposium on research into pig production,
health and pork safety, 27-29 March 2019
Scholarships:  21 Jan 2019 - late submission to be considered
• What to be covered?
• Return airfares to Hanoi; Airport transfer; Symposium registration and
meals; Accommodation (3- 4 nights based on flight bookings);
• Who are eligible?
• Live and work in a low or middle income country;
• Have limited or no access to travel funding;
• Be employed at a university, agricultural research institute, NGO,
government department or agricultural agency;
• Affiliation to an ACIAR-funded project is preferred;
• Be eligible to obtain a Vietnam visa and able to travel to Vietnam.
• What to be submitted?
• One-page scholarship submission
• CV
• Abstract

Regional symposium on research into pig production,
health and pork safety, 27-29 March 2019
For more information: www.asia.ilri.org

Other One Health, AMR activities at ILRI 2018: H7NH9
surveillance
• New study: H7N9 Avian Influenza
surveillance in 3 Northern bordering
provinces Lao Cai, Lang Son, Quang
Ninh and Hanoi
• Will sample air and human nasal
wash (One Health)
• Visiting 3 Sub-DAH
• Main partners: Duke University,
NIVR, HUPH
• Funding by US Navy
Map of study regions.

Other One Health, AMR activities at ILRI 201:
SafePORK
• SafePORK potential interventions to improve pork safety in
Vietnam (funded by ACIAR, partners: VNUA, HUPH, NIAS, private
sector)
• Ozone machine at slaughterhouses/ informal market
• Good ‘nudges’ to change behaviour of actors
• Reduction of AMU and AMR in pork supplied to canteens and schools
by using probiotics

Other One Health, AMR activities at ILRI 2018:
VIDAPIG
• VIDA-Pig project: Health and Antibiotics in Vietnamese Pig
Production in Bac Ninh (led by Copenhagen University, in
collaboration with NIVR and NIN, funded by DANIDA)
• Progress meeting at NIVR Tuesday, 4 December 2018
• Project is on track

Other One Health, AMR activities at ILRI 2018:
Parasites
• Research on tackling parasitic pork borne diseases (funded by
BMZ, main partners: NIVR, Hoa Binh sub-DAH)
• Training in Hanoi and Hoa Binh on diagnostic and analysis of
parasites

Other One Health, AMR activities at ILRI 2018: other
activities
• MM project progressed fine
• Continued works on One Health AMR
surveillance and other One Health analysis in
Thai Nguyen (Marisa, Trang, Narong)…
• Hepatitis E virus in animals and humans with
Rakuno University
• CGIAR AMR hub at ILRI Nairobi, Kenya and
Vietnam will be a focus country, launch 20-21
February 2019 in Nairobi and key partners
from Vietnam will be attending

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