The OHEJP SimEx Project September 2021 to December 2022
The OHEJP SimEx Project
The OHEJP SimEx project was conceptualized under the One Health approach to address a foodborne zoonotic disease outbreak. The OHEJP SimEx overarching aim was to assess the communication and collaboration between Public Health (PH), Animal Health (AH) and Food Safety (FS) authorities and laboratories within each participating country by providing a table-top exercise that covered a realistic foodborne outbreak at a national level. By achieving this aim, OHEJP SimEx will contribute to the improvement of each country’s national preparedness to future One Health outbreak.
During the summer of 2022 OHEJP SimEx delivered a challenging foodborne outbreak exercise scenario across 11 European countries which encouraged an intersectoral cooperation through the sharing of experiences, views and perspectives showcasing the added value of employing the One Health approach in an outbreak situation and highlighting the areas requiring further development.
The project has now finished, with the final dissemination workshop held in December 2022. There are a number of dissemination activities, including journal manuscripts and final report. Please see links below.
Read the blog post: Increasing the EU preparedness for zoonotic diseases through a One-Health approach
Who was involved in the SimEx conduction?
Which institutes were involved and where are they located?
Are the SimEx Scenario documents available for others to use?
Yes, you can find links to the Scenario documents, FoodChain-Lab and OH EpiCap tools:
OHEJP SimEx Handbook for Evaluators
OHEJP SimEx Handbook for NEL and LEL
https://foodrisklabs.bfr.bund.de/foodchain-lab/
Where can I find out more information?
D4.19 Guidelines for evaluation of final Joint Integrative Project reports and SimEx Project report
D4.30 Report on the OHEJP exercise (SimEx) – planning, conduction and evaluation
D4.31 Final report of OHEJP exercise (SimEx) and evaluation report
Read our 1st publication in “Frontiers in Public Health” available online and on Zenodo.
Alves, F., Artursson, K., Bloch, J., Brisabois, A., Imberechts, H., Jokelainen, P., La Ragione, R., Lindblad, M., Litzell Forss, R., Marston, D. A., Parvizi, O., Tuominen, L. & Omazic, A. (2023). A multi-country One Health foodborne outbreak simulation exercise: cross-sectoral cooperation, data sharing and communication. Frontiers in Public Health. 11, 1121522. DOI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1121522
Read a Latest News Post about this publication here.
Read our 2nd publication in “One Health” journal available online.
Manageiro, V., Caria, A., Furtado, C., Botelho, A., Oleastro, M., Cavaco Gonçalves, S. (2023). Intersectoral collaboration in a One Health approach: Lessons learned from a country-level simulation exercise. One Health. 100649. Pre-print version. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2023.100649
OHEJP External Newsletter Volume 7 – June 2022
One Health EJP SimEx Workshop: Preparation for the OHEJP SimEx – One Health EJP
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