Global webinar on rabies
Virtual Event, 08/10/2024
8 October 2024 | 10:00 – 12:00 CET
Rabies is a fatal yet preventable zoonotic disease that affects both humans and animals. Preventing human deaths from rabies should take a One Health approach involving public health, animal health and wildlife sectors. Investment in rabies elimination saves lives and also strengthens both human and veterinary health systems, which generates benefits far beyond rabies and can be sustained to tackle other One Health problems.
FAO has been actively supporting its members to tackle rabies-related risks. Working together with WHO, WOAH, and GARC, FAO contributes to the United Against Rabies Forum which convenes global rabies stakeholders to develop and promote technical and strategic tools. FAO also provides ground-basis support to countries in the front line of rabies emergencies.
To commemorate World Rabies Day 2024, this FAO webinar will share:
- information about FAO’s activities on rabies globally and regionally, including field vaccination and laboratory activities and stakeholder engagement
- countries’ experience on using the One Health approach to tackle rabies.
Webcast
Agenda
| Opening presentation Rabies at the FAO Global Conference on Animal Health Innovation, Reference Centres and Vaccines | Vinsy Szeto, FAO One Health Support Coordinator Tasmin Alexander, FAO One Health Intern |
| Welcome speech | Zelalem Tadesse, Senior Animal Health Officer, FAO |
| Global updates on rabies activities | Junxia Song, Senior Animal Health Officer, FAO |
| Update from Asia and Pacific | |
| No Dog Left Behind: integrating systematic dog vaccination and humane population management for rabies elimination | Eric Brum, FAO Bangladesh |
| Eliminating rabies in the Philippines: One Health approach | Michelle Balbin, FAO Philippines |
| Update from Africa | Charles Bebay, FAO ECTAD Regional Manager Eastern and Southern Africa |
| Engaging multisectoral stakeholders to define Rabies control priorities | Timothy Woma, FAO Mozambique |
| Analytical review of FAO's experience on the use of social media in supporting and monitoring WRD events in Africa | Yanira Santana Morales, FAO Outreach Officer |
| Update from the Middle East | |
| Rapid rabies assessment in Northwest Syria, implications for rabies control in IDP camps | Mario Younan, FAO Syria |
| Update from laboratory activities | |
| Strengthening the veterinary capacity in rabies diagnosis | Angelique Angot, FAO Laboratory team |
| Q&A | |
| Closing remarks | FAO Animal Production and Health Division |