Our Tools
We have the following Tools to facilitate effective engagement among the Global Pathology Network. Please feel free to Contact Us in case of questions.
Lifestock Learning These lessons were developed to help prepare animal health professionals (like you!) for work in livestock health in a global setting. They are intended to provide critical information and a few tools for operating overseas. Although designed for US military veterinarians deployed to resource-poor settings, we believe they will be useful for a much wider audience. Johns Hopkins University: International Travel Preparation, Safety, & Wellness (fee required) This course will prepare you to work and live overseas. It explores the epidemiology of common morbidity and mortality among travelers and examines key prevention, safety, and travel medicine principles and services to contextualize risks and maintain wellness. The course reviews applicable interventions, appropriate vaccines, and personal protection methods to prepare you to respond to expected and unexpected situations and will challenge you to examine travel health and safety priorities through case studies and discussions. World Organization for Animal Health (OIE): PVS Pathway The OIE is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide. It is recognised as a reference organisation by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in 2017 has a total of 181 Member Countries. The OIE maintains permanent relations with 71 other international and regional organisations and has Regional and sub-regional Offices on every continent. PVS evaluations: A specific methodology has been developed and the OIE has published the OIE Tool for the Evaluation of Performance of Veterinary Services (OIE PVS Tool) as the basis for evaluating performance against the international standards published in the Terrestrial Code. A similar tool is available for the evaluation of Aquatic Animal Health Services. Global Health Security Agenda: Country Roadmaps, Action Packages and Assessments/Jee The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was launched in February 2014 and is a growing partnership of over 64 nations, international organizations, and non-governmental stakeholders to help build countries’ capacity to help create a world safe and secure from infectious disease threats and elevate global health security as a national and global priority. GHSA pursues a multilateral and multi-sectoral approach to strengthen both the global capacity and nations’ capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to human and animal infectious diseases threats whether naturally occurring or accidentally or deliberately spread. CIA World Factbook This comprehensive reference contains data about numerous relevant parameters in the country you intend to visit. It is worth comparing/contrasting how the US and Country X measure on some of these parameters, such as: form of government, geographic size, population, average annual income, unemployment rate, literacy, industries, and so on. These comparisons can create a very objective lens for you as you prepare to travel and work. Hofstede National Culture Inventory Every country has its own unique national culture which Hofstede has measured, using several parameters, including power distance, individualism, family vs work orientation, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. He compares this constellation of national culture parameters for each country as “software of the mind”. It is how we are socially programmed. Understanding large differences in any of these parameters between the USA and Country X will help you immensely as you embark on any program. Understanding these differences in the “mental software” will help you triangulate, and creates an “adaptor” for enabling better communication and outcomes. Cultural Competency – The GHPN wants you to be optimally prepared for your experience in the country you will visit. There are 194 countries in the world, and each one has their own points of pride. If you have done some minimal on-line explorations prior to departing, your experience will be greatly enriched! |
- To share educational materials that are well vetted for international pathology training or practical use purposes, please contact us and select “sharing of tools” from the menu for interest. We will request in most cases, a PDF version of the material(s) if feasible as well as to provide the contact information for the author(s) of the material(s).
- References:
- Brown C., Torres F., Rech R. (2012). A field Manual for Collection of Specimens to Enhance Diagnosis of Animal Diseases. Boca Publications Group Inc., FL.
- Committee on Foreign and Emerging Diseases of the USAHA. (2008). Foreign Animal Diseases (7th ed). Boca Publications Group Inc. FL.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (2016). FAO Laboratory Mapping Tool (LMT-Core).
- Franson, J.C., Friend, M., Gibbs, S.E.J., and Wild, M.A., eds., 2015, Field manual of wildlife diseases: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 15, variously paginated, https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/tm15. ISSN 2330-7055 (online)
- Munson L. (2006). Necropsy of Wild Animals. Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, CA.
- World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. (‎2003)‎. Basic histopathology and anatomical pathology services for developing countries with variable resources.
- Brown, C. (2013) USAID – A Field Manual of Animal Diseases by Syndromes. Boca Publications Group Inc., FL.
- Friend M., Franson, J.C., Ciganovich E.A., eds., Field manual of wildlife diseases: General Field Procedures and Diseases of Birds. U.S. Geological Survey, variously paginated, https://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/ (online)
Noah’s Arkive is a resource from the Davis/Thompson Foundation which is a searchable collection of images which may be useful for reference.
Veterinary Pathology Image Database is a resource from the Pathology Department of the University of Barcelona, which has approximately 3,000 images available for download.
Telepathology setup – Telepathology Equipment List and General Startup Guide. This document outlines basic telepathology setup using examples from Rwanda and Pakistan. The purpose of this document is to serve as a startup guide and equipment list for initiation of telepathology between countries.
This is a means to search and submit in-country global health programs that have a pathology component or need (including contact person and program vision), as well as individual pathologists, pathology residents, and veterinary students to help create the GHPN network to find pathology support and for pathology expertise to find you.
- Please use the “questions” tab of this Google form to answer the required questions in order to enter yourself or institution into the network and submit the form by selecting the “send” icon on the top right.
- Please use this this Google spreadsheet to see the list of network members and their interests.