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Western Canada's Support for

Swine Health and Disease Surveillance

CWSHIN serves western swine producers, swine herd practitioners and governments to improve swine health, production, and the economic prosperity of the sector.

About CWSHIN

Canada West Swine Health Intelligence Network (CWSHIN) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in Manitoba.
It is funded by the four western Canadian provincial pork boards and provincial governments.

Our Objectives

Surveillance System

Surveillance System

The surveillance objectives are:

  • Detect new emerging swine health issues
  • Detect unusual clinical presentation of known diseases
  • Provide information about endemic diseases, and
  • For diseases absent in western Canada (such as Foot and Mouth Disease and African swine fever) the objective is to help provide evidence of absence of disease to support trade.

 

The objectives for the current health surveillance branch of the intelligence network are:

  • Facilitate knowledge transfer to producers, swine health practitioners, pork boards and governments in western Canada;
  • Provide fora for discussion of swine health issues;
  • Grow the network (for example seek to include more laboratories);
  • Brand and expand the knowledge and credibility of CWSHIN.

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Outbreak Support Network

Outbreak Support Network

The objectives for the new branch Outbreak Support Network (OSN) for practices is to establish a framework for supporting practitioners and producers dealing with cases potentially reportable to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

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Special Investigations

Special Investigations

The objectives for the special investigations are:

  • Provide an option to contract out short projects (less than one year duration) that rarely can be funded through existing programs or academia;
  • Gain practical new insight into swine health issues and control of health issues of special interest to CWSHIN’s stakeholders (producers, swine health practitioners, pork boards and governments).

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Our Activities

Governance

Advisory Group

Quarterly Teams

Our Activities

The plan for 2023/2028 includes four activities:

 

  1. CWSHIN core activities
  2. Development of
    • new analyses
    • a new IT solution named Western Canadian Repository for Swine Surveillance (WeCress)
  3. Special investigations
  4. Outbreak Support Network (OSN) which is an expansion of the second pillar (intelligence network).
Governance

The CWSHIN Board of Directors is comprised of representatives from each of the western Canadian pork boards, with the western provincial agriculture ministries and Western Canadian Association of Swine veterinarians (WCASV) holding ex-officio status. The Manager of CWSHIN reports to the Board of Directors and oversees all the organization’s activities.

Advisory Group

The role of the Scientific Technical Group is to provide guidance and recommendations to the CWSHIN Board of Directors. CWSHIN’s Manager chairs the group, which includes representation from each of the provincial pork boards, the provincial offices of the Chief Veterinarian and WCASV. As required, other swine health experts will be brought in to offer their experience and expertise.

Quarterly Teams

The quarterly teams discuss current and relevant swine health issues. CWSHIN’s Manager chairs the group, which includes swine practitioners actively contributing to CWSHIN; representation from each of the provincial pork boards; the provincial offices of the Chief Veterinarian; contributing laboratories and veterinary colleges.

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Our Affiliates

CWSHIN would not exist without:

The participation and support of swine practitioners, laboratories, governments,
swine health experts, and funding from provincial pork organizations and governments.

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