Public Private Partnerships: The SSAFE Initiative

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Public Private Partnerships The SSAFE
Initiative

• Will Hueston, University of Minnesota
• Mike Robach, President, SSAFE

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River Blindness Campaign

• "Great public-health success story"

Merck-Mectizan donation plus WHO, World Bank,
Carter Center and many others
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Flour Fortification Initiative
29 Private 26 Public/Civic/Educational
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Why public-private partnerships?

• Public Private Partnerships offer unique
  opportunities to leverage comparative strengths
  among government, industry, NGOs and academia

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Successful public-private partnerships

• Focus on shared interests
• Identify mutual benefits
• Clearly articulate goals, objectives and
  responsibilities
• Adapt to changing realities and needs
• Can withstand public scrutiny

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The origin of SSAFE

• Outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) in chickens in
  Thailand (Feb 2004)
• Highlighted inconsistent responses to the problem
• Exposed vulnerability of the global supply chain
• Demonstrated the lack of alignment among food
  industry, governments, researchers

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Evolution of SSAFE

• Stakeholder meetings in March July 2005
  co-sponsored by OIE and Center for Animal Health
  Food Safety (U. Minnesota)
• Consensus that Global Food Safety was a
  critically important issue that needs focus and
  alignment among all stakeholders
• Identified the strong links between Human Health
  Animal Health

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The SSAFE Objectives

• Protect human and animal health
• through science-based standards and their global
  implementation
• Support an uninterrupted, sustainable food supply
  chain to/from all countries
• consistent, affordable source of food everywhere
  in the world
• Help developing nations to improve local
  infrastructure capacity
• feed their population, increase stability,
  promote economic growth, education

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An Opportunity to Change the Paradigms
OIE

• Move from adversaries to partners
• Promote linkages among public health, animal
  health food safety
• Focus on global food supply
• Leverage marketing communications channels to
  promote OIE and intl. food safety systems
• Share risk responsibility

Academia
FoodIndustry
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SSAFE Integrating Perspectives
Animal Health
Public Health
SSAFE
Socio-Economic Factors
Global Food Systems
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Collective action to promote

• Global approach to food supply system
• Prevention surveillance as well as control
  disposal
• Recognition of acceptable risk
• Safe food begins with healthy animals

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SSAFE Vision

• Global Food Security
• All people will have access to safe, nutritious,
  and affordable food

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SSAFE Commitments

• Leverage resources through public-private
  partnerships for collective action
• Provide trusting, respectful environment to
  discuss and share ideas
• Facilitate and enable progress at local and
  international levels to strengthen the global
  food safety system

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SSAFE immediate opportunities

• Advocate for global standards
• Poultry meat and egg cooking temperatures to
  inactivate HPAI
• Promote public private partnerships
• Sponsor speakers, meeting sessions
• Partner with intergovernmental agencies
• Memoranda of understanding OIE FAO

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SSAFE ProjectsIdentified with OIE and World Bank
- Paris 2006

• Short Term Veterinary Capacity Building in
  Africa
• Intermediate Term South America project to
  demonstrate Compartmentalization
• Long Term Veterinary services capacity building
  public-private collaboration in Asia.

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Update on SSAFE Projects

• SSAFE Board Meeting
• October 8, 2007

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Veterinary Capacity Building - Africa

• Raise awareness around the importance of
  veterinary public health infrastructure and
  public-private collaboration.
• Facilitate public-private dialogue to establish a
  shared vision and strategy for the benefit of
  Mozambique citizens.

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At the request of the Mozambique
CVO,facilitation of Public-Private Dialogue
Strengthening Mozambiques Veterinary Public
Health Services
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Mozambique Facts

• 20 M population, 43 lt15 years old
• Twice the size of CA, 5.5 arable land
• 1500 GDP/capita with 9.8 growth (2006)
• 21 of GDP from Agriculture (formal)
• Independence in 1975
• Civil War from 1977 to 1992
• Republic with 10 Provinces
• National budget US2 Billion w/ half from
  donors

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Phase I - Listening

• Opening meeting with VS Leadership
• Visit farms Provincial Ag Ministries
• Middle Corridor (Chimoio to Beira)
• Northern Corridor (Nampula)
• South Capital Region (Maputo)
• Community Vaccinators, Health Ministry, Ag
  Research Institute, Animal Health Laboratory and
  private entrepreneurs
• Formulation of opportunities, next steps
• Review of observations with Ag Ministry

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Community Vaccination

• Several model programs in Mozambique
• Specific to Newcastle Disease vaccination
• Limited use on other animal health issues
• Some data collection for animal census
• Vaccinators are part of local community
• While part-time business model, in reality a
  voluntary community service

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Observations

• Animal Health Services are highly engaged and
  seeking assistance/advice
• Within Agriculture, animal health is low priority
• Disease surveillance is a major challenge
• Socioeconomic value of livestock and poultry are
  likely underestimated
• Community Animal Health programs, while limited
  in scope and geography, appeared to be
  sustainable with little funding

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Opportunities

• Evaluate socioeconomic value of animal
  agriculture
• Showcase and expand the Community Vaccination
  program
• Establish an Public-Private Animal Health
  Leadership Team
• Integrate family sector animal health programs
  into the commercial sector
• Raise awareness on the importance of healthy
  animals

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Next steps

• Develop sustainable Community Animal Health
  program
• Strengthen existing programs (ND, census)
• Expand scope to include other basic services
• Collaboration with commercial sector
• Enabling technologies
• Focus on Nampula Province
• Public-Private Leadership team development
• Goal to create a model success story for other
  provinces and developing countries

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South America Compartmentalization project for
animal production

• Co-sponsor of One World One Health meeting in
  Brasilia, Brazil October 2007
• Establish and validate model production
  compartments that are recognized by a significant
  trading partner.
• Dialogue with poultry industry and government
• OIE project with potential World Bank funding

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One World One Health principle
The earnestness and effectiveness of humankinds
environmental stewardship and the future of
health have never been more clearly linked. To
win the disease battles of the 21st Century while
ensuring the biological integrity of the Earth
for future generations requires interdisciplinary
and cross-sectoral approaches to disease
prevention, surveillance, monitoring, control and
mitigation as well as to environmental
conservation more broadly.
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Organizations in Attendance

• -Sao Paulo Zoo
• -Institute of Conservation Medicine
• BrazilianAssoc of Wildlife Vets
• National School of Public Health
• Mercolab
• -University of Grande do Sul
• University Estadual de Londrina
• University of Estadual Palesta
• University Campinas
• University of Brazil
• -University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos
• -University of Sao Paulo
• -Pasteur Institute
• UN FAO

• Ministry of Agriculture
• Ministry of Health
• Ministry of Environment
• Ministry of Agrarian Development
• IBAMA (wildlife)
• Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture
• Institute of Conservation Biodiversity
• ABIPECS (Swine Producers)
• -Perdigao Foods
• ABEF- Assoc of Chicken Producers
• SADIA Brasilian food production
• Seara
• Center for Professional Education
• Pan American Health Organization

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04/10/2007 1657 MAP PARTICIPATES OF
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HEALTH Brasilia
(04.10.07) - The director of Programs of the
Animal Area of the Secretariat of Farming
Defense, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Cattle
and Supplying (Map), Jorge Caetano Júnior,
yesterday participated (3) of the International
Symposium "one world, one health", promoted for
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and that he
is locked in today, in Brasilia. Commenting the
suggestion of the representative of the FAO, Juan
Lubroth, on the union of efforts to face the
aftosa fever and the aviária grippe, Jorge
Caetano remembered that the Brazilian government
and the private initiative already are partners
in some actions, between them the vaccination.
Ahead of the proposal of creation of deep
private of R a 1,5 million for research and to
finance practical capable to prevent the risk of
contamination for illnesses as aftosa and aviária
grippe, Jorge Caeteno standed out that Brazil
"has agencies that they make excellent work in
this area as federal Embrapa, Capes, CNPq and
universities, but all aid is welcome, therefore
the companies tend to direct the support to the
related research the subjects most specific",
explained. The symposium, that started in the
monday, congregates scientists and technician of
the ministries of Agriculture, Health and of the
Environment, beyond not governmental
organizations and producing food companies, to
search solutions to the challenges to the health
human being, animal health and to the
environment. When detaching the importance of
food Brazil as producing, the world-wide director
of the Program Veterinarian of the WCS, Willian
Karesh, alerted that "the world is growing each
time more e, consequently, the demand for foods.
We will only take care of these necessities with
people, healthful animals and balanced ecosystems
", concluded.
Ministry of Agriculture Homepage
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Workshop to identify potential projects
Catalyzed by Cargill sponsored challenge grant
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Four major themes identified

• Implement integrated surveillance
• Evaluate biofuel impacts
• Evaluate swine disease epidemiology
• Reduce impact of community domestic animal
  rearing

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Avian Surveillance in Brazil at the conservation,
business and public health interface

• Avian Influenza
• Newcastle Disease
• West Nile Virus

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Epidemiology of Swine Diseases

• ASPECTS
• Characterize pathogens and host species
• Characterize and correlated disease profiles
  between wild and domescit species
• Public health risk
• Create an integrated management and risk plan

• PARTICIPANTS
• Field researchers
• Health authorities
• Industry
• Universities
• EMBRAPA
• Diagnostic laboratories
• IBAMA/ICMBio

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Reduction of impact of community domestic animal
rearing

• ASPECTS
• Sustainable and healthy domestic animal rearing
• Family/community scale
• Organic certification in the mid term
• Evaluation of circulating pathogens between
  domestic and wild animals

• PARTICIPANTS
• AMLD
• NGOs
• EMATER-RJ
• FIOCRUZ (Public Health Institute)
• UNIVERSITIES
• SEBRAE
• LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
• IBAMA/ICMBIO

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Long Term SSAFE Projects Capacity building in
Asia

• Deliver education and Awareness programs
• Educational programs on food safety
  personal/family protection
• Support laboratory capacity building
• Apply model programs to developing countries in
  SE Asia
• Public-Private dialogue
• Small scale biosecurity demonstration projects

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Share PCR equipment and provide training for
Thai government laboratories
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Big Cleaning
Safe, First Class People, World Class, Best Cost,
SVT Food Safety Company - The Global Poultry
Leader
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Sharing Information
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Global Food Safety SystemsInitiative

• An International Effort supporting a Safe Supply
  of Affordable Food Everywhere

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TheGlobal Food Safety SystemsInitiative
Inter-institutional
Transboundary
Cross-sector
Transdisciplinary
Transformative
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The Need (1)

• New leaders
• An international network of motivated leaders to
  identify, address and prevent threats to the
  global food supply.

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The Need (2)

• New thinking
• A sustainable global food safety system
• Supply chain continuity and food security
• Business risk management for agricultural
  production and food safety
• Science as the basis for agricultural health and
  food safety standards and policies

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The Program

• A global consortium of academic institutions
  focused on developing the next generation of food
  safety systems leaders

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Initial Support

• Initial commitment from SSAFE
• UMN and Cargill 2,000,000 each for Global Food
  Safety endowed chair
• UMN College of Veterinary Medicine annual
  infrastructure support of 500,000
• UMN School of Public Health two new faculty
  positions

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What Success will look like in 5 Years

• Awareness and interest from every region of the
  world (North America, South America, Europe,
  Asia, Africa)
• Successful program delivery
• Transfer of best practices
• Improved food system safety
• Emerging leaders with a global supply chain
  mindset

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The ultimate measure of success

• This initiative becomes the program of choice for
  global public health leadership development
• This initiative becomes the catalyst of choice
  for public and private partnerships in Global
  Food Safety Systems
• This initiative becomes the resource of choice
  for science-based global food safety system
  guidance

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The Vision
Together we can assure an abundant, affordable
and safe food supply for all