The learned society SVEPM for Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine can congratulate itself on having organized from March 22 to 24, 2023, its most important scientific event since its foundation in 1982.
With the aim of sharing new knowledge and ideas, initiating collaborations, and promoting exchanges between scientists, this conference dealt with broad fields such as those of predictive approaches in health, the interface between animal health, public health and ecosystems, or the link between research and risk management.
It was Dr. Marius Gilbert, vice-director for research at the Free University of Brussels, who opened this European conference. He shared his experience of the close links between science, communication and decision-making support, in particular through his experience as an advisor to the Belgian government during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the following two days, space was given to the 20 oral communications selected, out of 84 abstracts submitted, in a long format of approximately 30 minutes. A quarter of these presentations were made by French research laboratories. Dr. François Roger (CIRAD, Montpellier) closed the conference with a presentation on the contribution of epidemiology to the development of countries in the South.
In addition to these oral presentations, 100 scientific posters have broadened the illustrations of the thematic fields of veterinary epidemiology.
Congratulations to the decision-making epidemiology team in animal health at the IHAP laboratory led by Timothée Vergne, new junior vice-president of the SVEPM! See you from March 20 to 22, 2024 for the next edition in Uppsala, Sweden.