Global Wildlife Data Sharing Workshop
The Wild Neighbors Database Project team and our partners from UC Davis and EpiEcos recently represented WildAlert at the Global Wildlife Data Sharing Workshop held at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.
The purpose of this workshop was for international experts in wildlife, government and global security areas to gather to explore the collection and harmonization of wildlife databases for bio surveillance and signal detection.
At this meeting, discussions focused around addressing obstacles prohibiting data sharing among the international wildlife sector, identifying the needs of the wildlife community, understanding the data that is already being collected and discussing potential data sharing agreements.
The meeting was supported by the non-profit PAX sapiens, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the United States Government.
We were proud to represent WildAlert at this important meeting. WildAlert enables early detection of unusual wildlife health events and is currently active in the states of California, Arizona and Florida. We look forward to seeing further collaboration between these stakeholders and hope to expand WildAlert further in the near future.
Dr. Pranav Pandit, BVSc, MPVM, PhD One Health Epidemiologist, presenting at the workshop about WildAlert
The WildAlert team at the Global Wildlife Data Sharing Workshop.
From left to right: Dr. Pranav Pandit (UC Davis), Rachel Avilla (WNDP), Dr. Terra Kelly (EpiEcos), Devin Dombrowski (WNDP)