The Dr. Ana Alba Casals is a Researcher in the Epidemiology and Analysis of Veterinary inside \nthe Health Program Animal -IRTA-CReSA since September 201<\/p>\n\n
His main interest as a researcher focuses on the development of data mining tools aimed at infectious disease surveillance systems animals, the improvement of the management of \ndatabases, the design and evaluation of surveillance systems and the analysis of spatial-temporal epidemiological data.<\/p>\n\n
Between 2017 and 2018, works as a freelance consultant in veterinary epidemiology performing work for at the University of Minnesota (USA), the Autonomous University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe European University, the Pig Sanitation Group (Lleida) and the PIC business group, others . He does his postdoctoral research between 2015 and 2016 in the Department Veterinary Population Medicine at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n
For more than 12 years he worked in the CReSA epidemiology team collaborating with \ndirect form in the design and evaluation of monitoring and contingency plans for notifiable diseases, management of health information systems and analysis and development of various epidemiological models at the level regional, national and international.<\/p>\n\n
He collaborates with the Statistics Unit of the Department of Mathematics of the UAB, the University of Minnesota, Catholic University of Santiago de Chile, \nUniv.de Thessaly (Greece), SVA-Sweden, IZSVe of Teramo.<\/p>\n\n
She has spent several stays as a visiting researcher at Murdoch Univ. (WA Australia) and UPEI (Canada) in different surveillance projects.<\/p>\n\n
She has participated as an instructor in various courses in surveillance, data management and GIS at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe University of Minnesota (USA), PANAFTOSA FAO, Massey University (New Zealand) and the Spanish Agency for Cooperation conducting face-to-face courses in the USA. UU, Spain, Brazil, Tunisia, Mozambique and Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":877,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[1474,1471],"tags":[1558,1553,1554,1557,1560,1559,1555,1556],"objectius_estrategics":[],"ods":[],"programa_irta":[],"class_list":["post-6214","ponent","type-ponent","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-health","category-animal-production","tag-enfermedades-infecciosas-en","tag-epidemiologia-veterinaria-en","tag-epidemologia-en","tag-malalties-infeccioses-en","tag-mineria-en","tag-mineria-de-dades-en","tag-veterinaria-en","tag-vigilancia-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n