Virtual Course on the Design and Implementation of an Active Surveillance for Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV)

Virtual Course on the Design and Implementation of an Active Surveillance for Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV)
using a 12-point Checklist for a Multidisciplinary Team (Philippines and Vietnam)

DAY 1 - 26 March 2021 Introduction Session
#	Presentations	Authors
1	Aquatic health management and aquaculture biosecurity	Melba Reantaso
2	Epidemiology, surveillance	Nihad Fejzic
3	Tilapia sector in the Philippines	Jude Danting
4	Tilapia sector in Viet Nam	Phan Trong Binh
WEEK 1
DAY 2 - 29 March 2021 Checklist 1 and Checklist 2
1	Introduction: Interregional project TCP/INT/3707 (it includes "12 point checklist for surveillance of diseases of aquatic organisms")	Melba Reantaso
2	Checklist 1: Scenario setting	Melba Reantaso
3	Checklist 2: Defining surveillance objective	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
DAY 3 - 31 March 2021 Checklist 3 and Checklist 4
1	Checklist 3: Defining populations	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
2	Checklist 4: Disease clustering	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
DAY 4 -02 April 2021 Checklist 5 and Checklist 6
1	Checklist 5: Case definition	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
2a	Checklist 6: Diagnostic testing Level I, II: general	Melba Reantaso
2b	Checklist 6: Level III: general	Kathy Tang-Nelson
2c	Checklist 6: TiLV Risk Profile	Win Surachetpong
WEEK 2
DAY 5 - 05 April 2021 Checklist 6 Continued
1a	Checklist 6 - Diagnostic testing - TiLV diagnostics: Level I, II	Ha T. Dong
1b	Checklist 6 - Diagnostic testing - TiLV diagnostics: Level III	Win Surachetpong
1c	Field and laboratory preparation, checklists and forms	Kathy Tang-Nelson
DAY 6 - 07 April 2021 Checklist 7
1	Checklist 7: Study design and sampling	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
DAY 7 - 09 April 2021 Checklist 8 and Checklist 9
1	Checklist 8: Data collection and management	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
2	Checklist 9: Data analysis	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
WEEK 3
DAY 8 - 13 April 2021 Checklist 10, Checklist 11 and Checklist 12
1a	Checklist 10: Validation and quality assurance	Nihad Fejzic Fernando Mardones
1b	Checklist 10: Validation and quality assurance	Kathy Tang-Nelson
2	Checklist 11: Human and financial resources and logistics requirements	Melba Reantaso
3	Checklist 12: Surveillance in the big picture	Melba Reantaso
DAY 9 - 15 April 2021 Presentation of TiLV active surveillance and comments from experts – Final Session
1	Philippines_TilV 12 point Checklist presentation	Philippines team
2	Vietnam TiLV 12 point Checklist presentation	Vietnamese team
3	India’s National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases	India
4	Malaysia:sharing experience of EHP	Malaysia
	Closing
List of important reference materials
01	Bondad-Reantaso, M.G., Fejzic, N. MacKinnon, B., Huchzermeyer, D., Seric-Haracic, S., Mardones, F.O., Mohan, C.V., Taylor, N., Jansen, M.D., Tavornpanich, S., Hao, B., Huang, J., Leaño, E.M., Li, Q., Liang, Y., Dall’Occo, A. 2021. A 12-point checklist for surveillance of diseases of aquatic organisms: a novel approach to assist multidisciplinary teams in developing countries. Reviews in Aquaculture: 1-19.
02	FAO/GIEWS – Special Alert No. 338 (2017): Outbreaks of Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) threaten the livelihoods and food security of millions of people dependent on tilapia farming
03	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2018. Tilapia Lake Virus Expert Knowledge Elicitation Risk Assessment (December 2018). FAO Animal Health Risk Analysis – Assessment, Issue No. 7. Rome, FAO.