Dr. Andreia Arruda: Emerging Disease Monitoring | Ep. 14

Today’s episode will cover Tackling emerging diseases with producer-driven monitoring systems. “If we have an ASF outbreak tomorrow… Just having the [disease monitoring] system up and being able to communicate in a timely matter [is essential].” – Dr. Andreia Arruda. Our guest is Dr. Andreia Arruda, another bright mind of the Global Swine Industry. Dr. Arruda is a veterinarian with a Masters from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Guelph. She, then, held a one-year research position at the University of Minnesota as a post-doc and in 2017 joined the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at The Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor. What you will learn:Disease control programs and how do they work;Examples of disease monitoring programs;How she sees these platforms helping in the case of an emerging disease;Insights on how to make these programs sustainable in the long run;What separates successful swine professionals from those that are not.Andreia’s favorite swine-related book: Diseases of Swine Andreia’s favorite book unrelated to swine: The Paradox of ChoiceEdited by Lauro Faccin