Promote continuing education for the local and national official veterinary service, through the development and application of statistical techniques used in the investigation of epidemics, with a special focus on analysis of complex networks to be applied to animal movement data, in order to improve the capacity of the state of Rio Grande do Sul to safeguard herd health across all food animal species. In particular, automation of animal movement analysis for all species susceptible to Foot-and-Mouth Disease among several other thematic.
Publications
- Machado, G., Farthing, T., Andraud, M., Lopes, F.P.N., Lanzas, C. Modeling the role of mortality-based response triggers on the effectiveness of African swine fever control strategies-2021
- Cardenas, N.C. ,Sykes, A.L., Lopes F.P.N., Machado,G. Multiple species animal movements: network properties, disease dynamic and the impact of targeted control actions-2022
- Cardenas, N.C., Sanchez, F., Lopes F.P.N., Machado,G. Coupling spatial statistics with social network analysis to estimate distinct risk areas of disease circulation to improve risk-based surveillance-2022
- Cardenas, N.C., Lopes, F.P.N., Machado, G. Modeling foot-and-mouth disease dissemination in Brazil and evaluating the effectiveness of control measures-2023
