Agro-Know Internship Program: Maria Lathouri

Internship program in Agroknow16/07/2014-16/10/2014

Lathouri Maria

All Hands-On session 10/10/2014

The Global Water Pathogen Project

Outline• Who is involved

• Goals and Mission

• Content Analysis

• Classification and Schema

• 30-31st August meeting outcomes

• Current and Next steps

• Parallel Activities


Who is involved

• A global team of scientists led by Pr. Joan B Rose, Chair of Water Research, Michigan State University and Dr. Blanca Jimenez, Director of the Division of Water Sciences, UNESCO have initiated a major project to address pathogens in wastewater and freshwaters world-wide

• A global network of scientists and students will be engaged to gather and build the knowledge on pathogens-potentially more than 120 authors will be employed in the project across the world


The mission• The mission is to develop a knowledge resource

which can guide future goals for achieving safe waters using advanced information technology to create an open online database, quantitative information, tools and educational materials.

• This project will interface with UNESCO’s goal for updating and disseminating a new edition of Sanitation and Disease: Health Aspects of Excreta and Wasterwater Management (Feachem et al., 1983)


Goals

• Creating a knowledge community to develop the online Global Water Pathogen Hub

• Create and support a platform for the online resource to build the knowledge on pathogens in water as after 30years new pathogens, new models are available to examine occurrence and persistence

• Focus on pathogens and human health risk


Goals

• Result in an open access online platform for sharing, retrieving databases, capturing and visualizing all related information on pathogens

• Disseminate the knowledge globally

• Serves as a compendium of information and quantitative data to support risk assessment to protect water safety


Goals

• AK role is to create the Global Knowledge Hub: develop the technology and delivery platform towards a Water Pathogen Network

omake all information easily accessible, readable and

discoverable oallow content contributionohelp people combine, aggregate, filter and analyse the

informationodevelop community and citizen-science portalsoprovide tools for educational/employment pathwaysoexpand with additional components to further enhance the Hub


Content Analysis


Content Analysis Map/Analyze its content Provide a more detailed and oriented description of the content Identify all the different data types Define a model that would meet search requirements, easy to follow Contain a complement of information


Classification and Schema


30th-31st August Meeting

• Host a small group of key members of GWPP and the virus team, prior to the 4th Food and Environmental Virology conference, September 2-5, 2014, Corfu, Greece.

• A global network of experts from Michigan State University, Washington University, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Brazil Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, International Livestock Research Institute Vietnam, University of Barcelona, University of Patras



• Focus now on the Academic sector and especially on the virus section of the book, each virus will be presented for the occurrence and persistence

• Agreed on the actual headings for the virus section of the book



• Areas to address: Inclusion of global data sets, mapping geographic regions, emerging pathogens

• Produce a newsletter and set up a list serve as internal communication, for follow up and updates

• Discussion on data problems; publication copyrights, data sharing, datasets/ models not publicly available, register all related datasets and projects in one place, no tools to organize their data


Current Steps

• 1st milestone by December to have an active website, including a finder, for authors to start building the content and to create the online virus chapters by September 2015

• Provide tools for authoring the 2nd version of the Faechem 2.0 book, managing the information and visualizing the results


Next and Final step

• Finally, to have a Knowledge Hub which will: o gather all the relevant pathogen resources,

integrate and connect to existing and external websites (QMRA wiki, WHO, Great Lakes etc.)

o create a knowledge sharing system and supportive science and educational network

o provide an accessible global information to support action and change for protecting human health

Parallel Activities

• ECVET-STEP D2.1 Deliverable Section 2a

(Strengthening Training to Employment Pathway)

• Meetings, Trainings&Seminars

Thank you !

Agro-Know Internship Program: Maria Lathouri

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