Provide virtual, on-demand trainings that will improve veterinarians' abilities to identify prospective foreign animal diseases

To achieve this, texas a & m agrilife research will develop a new foreign animal disease outbreak curriculum that will integrate into and complement USDA-aphis's existing in-person training programs. The curriculum builds on existing materials used by veterinarians to prepare for animal disease outbreaks. Webinars and self-paced lessons will give veterinarians opportunities to practice investigating prospective animal disease outbreak scenarios in different contexts including sale barns, backyard farming, slaughter plants, ports of entry, and intersections of domesticated and wild animals. The project includes collaborations across several units within USDA-aphis including training and development, nvsl foreign animal disease diagnostic laboratory (faddl), emergency management response system 2.0 (EMRS2), nvsl diagnostic bacteriology and pathology laboratory, and foreign animal disease diagnosticians (fadds). The project will update existing self-paced lessons in different contexts including foot and MOU TH disease at a sale barn, avian influenza at a backyard farm, seneca valley a virus at a slaughter plant, and screwworm at a port of entry. Moreover, the project will develop a new self-paced virtual lesson on african swine fever (ASF) to increase capabilities of foreign animal disease diagnosticians across the united states in conducting disease outbreak investigations. Furthermore, the project will develop a five-part series of synchronous webinars. The one-hour sessions will cover the following topics: 1) epidemiological investigation and tracing, 2) biosecurity, 3) quarantine and movement, 4) communication, and 5) information management. Each session will include exercises that engage the learner in opportunities to apply foundational knowledge and knowledge gained during the session lectures to solve FAD problems in a real-world context. Additionally, the project will add new multi-media resources to a existing online FAD library. The FAD library includes collections of images, videos, and other multi-media resources on high consequence foreign animal disease investigations for trainers to enhance training capabilities across the united states and its territories.