EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH
Biosecurity Research has expertise in epidemiological research into pest and disease outbreaks.
EPIDEMIOLOGY TEACHING
Expertise in teaching epidemiology to post-graduate vets and biosecurity specialists across animal, plant and environment sectors.
BIOSECURITY PREPAREDNESS
Biosecurity Research specialises in developing biosecurity preparedness response plans, systems, training and exercises.
Epidemiological research example
Quantification of productivity impacts and identification of risk factors for the development of kiwifruit bacterial blight caused by an outbreak in New Zealand of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae
Epidemiology teaching example
This was the awesome group of lecturers, private vets and government vets from New Zealand and Asia that attended the 2024 MPI Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology for biosecurity course.
Biosecurity preparedness example
Red imported fire ant (RIFA) exercise scenario developed to train biosecurity operational responders and estimate resource requirements for movement controls, surveillance and organism management