Half - Day Seminar: Virus Surveillance of Wildlife to Face Threats of Future Disease Pandemic

Half – Day Seminar: Virus Surveillance of Wildlife to Face Threats of Future Disease Pandemic

Speaker for Half Day Seminar Dr. Alice Latinne, PhD

Located at the Lodaya II Primate Street Animal Study Center Number 5 Office, PSSP in collaboration with Predict Indonesia was held Half-Day Seminar: Virus Surveillance on Wildlife to Face the Threat of Disease Pandemic in the Future, by presenting the speaker Dr. Alice Latinne, PhD from Ecohealth Alliance New York, as Country Liaison for Indonesia and Thai, Predict Global Consortium, Dr. drh. Joko Pamungkas, MSc, researcher from the IPB Primate Animal Study Center who is also the Indonesian National Predict Coordinator, and Lulu Agustina, SP, MSi, Director of Biosafety Sub Directorate of Biodiversity Conservation, Directorate General of Natural Resource Conservation and Ecosystems, Ministry of Environment and Forestry RI.

PREDICT is part of the International Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) project sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) which basically aims to assist the government in preventing, detecting and responding to the possibility of new infectious diseases occurring transmitted from wildlife to humans.

Head of IPB Primate Animal Study Center, Drh. Huda S Darusman, MSi, PhD in his opening speech stated that seeing Half Day Seminar participants was attended by representatives from various parties, including: Ujung Kulon WWf, Biology Research Center of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences IPB, Research Center Veterinary, LSM Veswick Medan, Tanjung Priok Agricultural Quarantine Center, PT. Bimana Indomedical, Taman Safari Indonesia, the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, the Primatology Study Program of the Graduate School of IPB, PT Bogor Life Science and Technology, and USAID-Indonesia, invited all parties to use it as a vehicle to build cooperation, in line with the spirit of the One Health concept prioritizing cross-sector, cross-disciplinary, cross-stakeholder, and cross-regional cooperation.