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13th Crane Seminar : Risk assessment – improving public health and animal welfare in food production

Seminar and postgraduate course (3 ECTS). 13th Crane Seminar : Risk assessment – improving public health and animal welfare in food production. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Skara, Sweden, 24 March – 11 April 2014. Main lecturers :

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13th Crane Seminar : Risk assessment – improving public health and animal welfare in food production

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  1. Seminar and postgraduatecourse(3 ECTS) 13th CraneSeminar: Risk assessment – improving public health and animal welfare in foodproduction Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Skara, Sweden, 24 March – 11 April 2014 • Main lecturers: • Dr David Vose, Vose Software, Belgium. Dr Vose is an international expert in risk analysis. He founded Vose Consulting (presently EpiX Analytics LLC), has developed the risk analysis training and reference software ModelAssist, and has authored the fundamental volume Risk analysis: a quantitative guide. • Dr Maarten Nauta, Danish Technical University, Denmark. Dr Nauta is an international expert of quantitative microbiological risk assessment in public health, with a background in mathematical biology. He has long experience in mathematical modelling of biological systems. • Prof TelmoNunes, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Prof Nunes performs research and teaching in epidemiology, risk analysis, animal welfare, and food safety. He has carried out several expert tasks as risk assessor in projects launched by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

  2. The course is open to everyone admitted to a PhD or residency programme in medicine, veterinary medicine, animal science, or biology. In case the course is full, PhD students will be given priority. • Upon completion of the course the students shall be able to: • Explain concepts and principles of risk assessment; • Explain the application of basic risk assessment techniques to public health and animal welfare in food production; • Interpret results from risk assessments applied to public health and animal welfare in food production. • The course consists of three parts: a pre-campus period, a 5-day on-campus seminar, and a post-campus period. All participants will be expected to read material provided by the lecturers and distributed 1 week pre-campus. On campus, plenary presentations are given by three main lecturers, followed by short counter-presentations by experienced teachers or researchers. Group work and discussions in plenum stimulate the dialogue across disciplines. Materialand studying questions will be distributed to participants 1 week pre-campus. • Examination: Passed participation during at least 3 days on-campus; Passed completion of post-campus assignments in writing… • Fees: PhD students… Residencies… Seminar participants… • Registration… Susanne Lindwall susanne.lindwall@slu.se latest 1 March 2014 • Seminar website www.slu.se/craneseminar • Additional information: Assoc prof Stefan Gunnarsson stefan.gunnarsson@slu.se and Assocprof Jan Hultgren jan.hultgren@slu.se Short program: Crane Seminars arerecurrentinterdiciplinary events organised by the Departmentof Animal Environment and Health every2nd-3rdyeartoconnect human, animal and biologicalsciences under currentthemesofhighsocietalrelevance

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