By Abbey Canon
The Swine Health Information Center released its 2025 Plan of Work in January, outlining key priorities to protect the health of the US swine herd in the current year. The Plan of Work emphasizes a proactive approach to addressing emerging disease threats and enhancing biosecurity measures within the US swine industry. On March 5, 2025, SHIC issued a request for 2025 Plan of Work research proposals with a submission deadline of April 30, 2025. A record 57 proposals were received from 19 organizations (14 universities, one government entity, and four private companies). Proposals will undergo competitive review for funding recommendations based on value to US pork producers.
Research priorities and topics identified in the 2025 Plan of Work help SHIC fulfill its mission to generate new knowledge for preventing, preparing, mitigating and responding to emerging swine disease threats. Read the 2025 Plan of Work RFP here.
The 56 proposals are expected to address the specific research priorities described in the March RFP, including topics such as transport biosecurity, reduction of disease risk at the packing plant lairage and unloading docks, investigation of novel technologies for trailer sanitation, assessment of biosecurity risk for cull sow and secondary markets, identifying early disease outbreak warning signals, evaluation of wastewater as a surveillance tool, environmental sample types with low labor requirements for emerging disease surveillance, genome-based diagnostic technologies for emerging disease detection and forensic analysis, and investigating the clinical relevance of newly identified agents from veterinary diagnostic lab submissions.
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