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Sanitary/Phytosanitary (SPS), Risk Analysis and Modelling Workshop

Capacity Building for Risk Analysis and Modeling

to Promote Agricultural Trade in India

  July 23-August 3, 2007

Hyderabad, India

Workshop Presented by:

Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA

United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant health

Inspection Service (USDA/APHIS), USA

  and

Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU), Hyderabad, India  

Grant support under United States- India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative (AKI):

Provided to Tuskegee University by

National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges ( NASULGC)

Provided to ANGRAU by

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

 

General Information: The workshop is designed as an introductory to intermediate level course. We have assembled instructors of high caliber to provide participants with valuable learning experience. They consist of experts from Tuskegee University, ANGRAU in Hyderabad, India , USDA/APHIS and USDA/FSIS. The complete series of course lectures and exercises will be made available on CDROM and on the WWW at our websites at:

http://compepid.tuskegee.edu

and

http://www.onemedicine.tuskegee.edu.

 

Textbook : Daniel M. Byrd and Richard Cothern, Introduction to Risk Analysis, 2000, Government institutes, Rockville, MD (433 pages).

 

Workshop is directed at:

· Administrators dealing with SPS issues in India

· Risk analysts and risk managers

· Epidemiologists, public practice/public health experts

· Plant and agricultural scientists and food safety experts

· Engineers and others interested in risk assessment and management

The Workshop is presented by:

1. Scientists from Tuskegee University from the following Centers:

· Center for Computational Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Risk Analysis

· The International Center for Tropical Animal Health (ICTAH) and

2. USDA/APHIS and FSIS

3. Scientists from ANGRAU, Hyderabad, India