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Shic Seeks Input For 2024 Plan Of Work

The Swine Health Information Center is currently requesting input for its 2024 Plan of Work from all stakeholders across the swine industry. Input may include topic areas, research priorities, and identified industry needs in which SHIC should focus efforts, such as an emerging swine disease or an emerging swine health issue. SHIC’s Plan of Work helps guide activities for the coming year across five strategic areas, including improving swine health information, monitoring and mitigating risks to swine health, responding to emerging disease, surveillance and discovery of emerging disease, and swine disease matrices. Input across all five areas is welcomed and encouraged.

Rather than restricting efforts of the Center, the annual Plan of Work provides a roadmap while remaining flexible, allowing SHIC to react to emerging issues of the swine industry as they occur in real-time. This aligns with SHIC’s mission, which is to protect and enhance the health of the US swine herd by minimizing the impact of emerging disease threats through preparedness, coordinated communications, global disease monitoring, analysis of swine health data, and targeted research investments.

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