Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System Objectives, Successes and Pitfalls

1. Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System Objectives, Successes and Pitfalls CAHSN Face to Face Meeting Feb 26- 27th, 2018 Presenter: Andrea Osborn

2. Purpose Statement

3. Overarching Goals Key Themes: • Advise on national animal health surveillance priorities • Needs, strategies, gaps and capacity • Facilitate Data Gathering • Multiple sources, untapped sources • Help people exchange and use information • Trust, lines of communications • Understanding needs and addressing them along the continuum • Help make information easily accessible • Sharing information, analyses, reports • Ability to share data • Help remove artificial barriers to animal health surveillance • Overcome jurisdictional issues

4. Objectives • Become a network-of-networks for animal health surveillance • CAHSS does not do surveillance or define objectives for sector networks • Workshops and ‘participatory action research’ are used to identifyprioritiessector-by-sector, and to determine needs, priorities and next steps

5. Member Survey - November 2017

6. CAHSS Electronic and Telephone Surveys Background: • All members survey conducted in November 2017. • A subset of members also completed a telephone survey. Electronic Survey sent to 154 ‘owning members’ • 30% response rate • 89% have been members for at least 6 months. • 65% belong to one group only Telephone Survey: • 21 respondents total

7. Network Feedback: What we like about CAHSS and what we would do differently • Networking, Diversity, Sharing • We like the cross-Canada representation, shared expertise • Enthusiasm, great vision, benefits for all, we’re on the right track • Slow but fast, blundering along is ok, keep the politics out • Ensure all members are engaged and motivated, some groups are too big • Leadership/Objectives/Actions • Someone has to step up and lead • Need clarity on objectives, linked to actions and outcomes • Map the way forward with small practical steps • Communications/Information/Data Sharing • Focus on communications, including informing others of what we mean by surveillance • Share disease information, standardized surveillance needed • Build the linkages among network groups • Funding and Sustainability • Firm support from decision-making bodies, senior managers is critical • Funding and resources, reliable and ongoing, needed to maintain networks, project funding and administrative support • Avoid dependencies on a few, need many to lead

8. Survey Results 2017 • Half of survey respondents support CAHSS and are optimistic about the future, remainder were unsure, a few respondents are quite unhappy • Concerns about inability of CAHSS to overcome jurisdictional barriers to surveillance • Memberswant more action, leaders for each group, and funding

9. Successes and Pitfalls

10. Successes – what’s working • The National Farmed Animal Health and Welfare Council islooking to take the lead on CAHSS co-ordination in the future. • Looking for CAP funding (5 years) to take on thisrole • Ongoingfundingrequires support from all stakeholders • Over 200 people linkedfromvarious networks • Significantbenefit to knowingwhoisdoingwhatnationally • Seeing synergies, increasing ability to connect people and organizations across the country • CAHSS website provides a central location to share information publically or privately (not data) • Open to all members to use and share information • Member directory can provide initial information for network analysis by sector and nationally

11. Successes – what’s working • Network of Networks model identified by CAHSS directors as the best model for animal health surveillance nationally CAHSS Business case showed: • Status quo for surveillance in Canada left significant risks for animal health, public health, environmental health and trade • National government led program would have political, economic and social costs that were not acceptable • Industry led model would be cost effective and efficient, but not financially sustainable

13. Pitfalls • CFIA supports moving CAHSS co-ordination out of the federal government to a national collaboration, to avoid the appearance that CFIA is controlling the work • Limit is being approached (has been exceeded?) on what can be done with current funding. NFAHWC will be applying for 5 year funding under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership to take on the coordination role • Leaders are required for each sector, but few are willing/able to take on this role off the ‘side of their desks’ • Impact on pre-existing networks ? Somesee CAHSS as a threat • Different perspectives on what is meant by collaboration

14. The Future • Unique opportunities are present with transition of co-ordination to the NFAHWC, at the same time as council takes on responsibilities under the Plant and Animal Health Strategy • Environment is supportive for surveillance development using a collaborative approach between Governments, Industries and Academia • Going forward the network of networks approach will create synergy, efficiencies and mutual support across sectors The future is so bright, I gotta wear shades………

15. Thank you For more information please visit www.cahss.ca