Assess the economic and societal burden of selected priority diseases and production diseases

Project objectives

• To extend bio-economic simulation models into bio-burden models for estimating economic and other societal burdens of priority and production diseases

• To estimate the economic consequences of selected diseases for which estimates of disease costs are not well established

• To develop a framework to enable socioeconomic evaluations regarding different surveillance and mitigation options to prevent specific diseases from establishing and spread in and between animal holdings or to the human population

• To analyze the economics of management practices and prevention measures to control priority and production diseases

• To model and assess economic and environmental effects of health problems and their prevention

Outcomes and impacts

• A description of a dynamic, stochastic, and mechanistic bio-burden model that can be used to evaluate the effect of disease on economics, animal welfare, use of antimicrobials, environment, and public health

• Short list of available data sources and models to be used as basis for quantification of the burden of disease in production animals

• A report including the results presenting the monitoring and evaluation framework for optimal resource allocation during an outbreak and tracking of disease spread for priority diseases. (UCPH; M12).

• Report documenting a herd simulation model analysis of the effect of dairy cows' metabolic diseases on enteric methane emission and economy (AU; M12).

• Contribution to EU research goals: Advancing European leadership in animal health, welfare, and food safety.

• Safer food for consumers: Promoting sustainable and responsible food production practices.