Coordinated and collaborative workforce development among veterinary diagnostic laboratories will enhance early recognition of and improve responses to newly-detected, RE-emerging, and foreign…

Coordinated and collaborative workforce development among veterinary diagnostic laboratories will enhance early recognition of and improve responses to newly-detected, RE-emerging, and foreign animal diseases at the regional and national level. Focused training, mentoring, and networking opportunities, with an emphasis on trainees and early-career professionals, will improve retention of technical experts within veterinary diagnostic laboratories, better ensuring the ability of these systems to provide constant vigilance against emerging and foreign animal diseases and promote consistent and knowledgeable animal disease surveillance. Objective #1: establish virtual regional emerging and foreign animal disease training rounds and a case consultation network for veterinary laboratory diagnosticians, with an emphasis on trainees and early-career professionals. Objective #2: provide annual in-person emerging and foreign animal disease training opportunities that encourage veterinary laboratory diagnosticians to interact with each other, accredited and other practicing licensed veterinarians, and state and federal agencies responsible for animal disease surveillance and response. Objective #3: improve communications between regional veterinary diagnostic laboratories, accredited and other practicing lice nsed veterinarians, the nahln, and state and federal officials responsible for animal disease surveillance and response. No subawards.