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SUMMARY:Active Surveillance of Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Fresh Push t
 o Identify Reservoir Hosts - James O Olopade\, Humboldt Research Hub for Z
 oonotic Arboviral Diseases\, University of Ibadan
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CONTACT:Fiona Roby
DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract: The recent wave of pandemic/epidemics in the world
  has necessitated that Africa join the global push to not only to be ready
  for future pandemics but to also preempt them. Africa is plagued with a l
 ot of neglected tropical diseases\, many of them caused by neurotropic vir
 uses. With minimal funding of these diseases\, the burden they create on q
 uality of life and productivity of animals has not been well estimated. Mo
 re important is the need for active surveillance of possible reservoir hos
 ts for some of these Neglected Tropical Diseases\, so as to proper underst
 and their epidemiology. In this presentation\, I will be speaking on West 
 Nile\, and Crimean Congo Heamorrhagic Fever viruses\, and the roles that r
 eservoirs may be playing for reverse zoonosis.\n\nShort Citation: James Ol
 ukayode Olopade graduated with the DVM (Veterinary) degree in 1992 and obt
 ained his MSc and PhD in 2003 and 2006\, respectively\, all from the Unive
 rsity of Ibadan. He was promoted full Professor in 2011. James carried out
  postdoctoral trainings in Marine Biology Laboratory Woodshole\, USA\, as 
 an International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) Fellow at Penn State U
 niversity\, USA in 2008\, and as a MacArthur and Alexander von Humboldt Fe
 llow\, both at the University of Wurzburg\, Germany. He has served as Edit
 or in Chief\, Nigerian Veterinary Journal and Dean\, Faculty of Veterinary
  Medicine. His current research areas are in neuroscience\, comparative an
 atomy and surveillance biology. He has been funded by a variety of organis
 ations including the International Society of Neurochemistry\; the Interna
 tional Brain Research Organisation\, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
 \; the Tertiary Education Trust Fund\, Nigeria\, and the Cambridge Alborad
 a Grant (UK) amongst others. He has over 160 research publications includi
 ng 4 copyrights and is the most cited veterinarian in Africa as per brain 
 research.  James Olopade is currently the Principal Investigator of Alexan
 der von Humboldt Research Hub for Zoonotic Arboviral Diseases (HRH-ZAD)\, 
 a €750\,000 Humboldt Research Hub funding for pandemic preparedness\, an
 d also the Director of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital\, at the Universit
 y of Ibadan in Nigeria.\n
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