SVEPM Conference Awards
At the annual SVEPM conference different prizes are awarded. Below the awards are posted and past winners named
Best Junior Oral Presentation (SRUC Prize)
This prize will be awarded at the annual conference for the best paper presented by a new researcher in any area of veterinary epidemiology. The prize is sponsored by the Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) since 2012, who generously provide £200 for the prize. Authors submitting abstracts for presentation at the conference, and who fulfill the eligibility criteria (below), can request to be considered for this prize. However, please note that the number of SRUC prize candidate slots is limited, and preference is given to oral abstracts scored most highly upon blinded evaluation by the SVEPM committee.
Prize eligibility and judgement criteria
Eligibility
To be eligible for the SRUC prize, candidates must be either:
• A PhD student
• Engaged in a post-graduate residency training
• Not more than 5 years employed in the field of (veterinary) epidemiology or veterinary public health/preventive medicine (inclusive of PhD/post-graduate residency training time)
Value
• The prize will be £200 and will be awarded for at least 5 consecutive years
• If there are no eligible candidates in any year, the prize money will be carried forward for an additional year.
Judging
• There will be 3 judges: The Senior Vice-President, Junior Vice-President and Professor George Gunn (SRUC) or his nominee from SRUC
• Judges will meet twice during the annual meeting to deliberate
• The prize will be awarded at the conference dinner on Thursday evening
Judging criteria
• Both the proceedings manuscript and oral presentation will be taken into consideration during the selection process.
• The following criteria must be met:
- Presenter’s own work
- Rigorous, novel science
- Manuscript/presentation should describe a completed piece of research with detailed methods, full results and sensible conclusions
- Presenter must demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the subject through their paper, presentation and answers to questions from audience
- The work must have a defined impact; What is the importance of the work for animal health, public health and/or welfare?
Past SRUC prize winners
Year | Winner | Title of presentation |
2022 |
Irene Bisschop Brandon Hayes |
The association between longevity and animal health in Dutch dairy herds Elucidating African swine fever transmission patterns between domestic pigsand wild boarin Romania |
2021 | Jake Thompson | Randomised control trial shows space allowance increases milk production and changes behaviour of housed dairy cows |
2020 | No award (COVID-19) | |
2019 | Bryony Jones | Exploring local knowledge of sheep and goat disease in the pastoralist Afar region of Ethiopia: implications for peste des petits ruminants disease surveillance |
2018 | Timothée Vergne | Nomadic movements and infectious disease transmission: tackling avian influenza viruses along the free-grazing duck movement network in Vietnam |
2017 | Matteo Crotta | Quantitative Risk Assessment of Campylobacter in broiler chickens - assessing the level of contamination at the end of the rearing period |
2016 | Kaare Græsbøll | How many pooled tests are needed to detect a single positive sample? |
2015 | Pranav Pandit | Dynamic between herd model for Q fever spread in dairy herds to quantify the impact of different transmission pathways at regional scale |
2014 | Laura Falzon | A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Anthelmintic Resistance in Sheep |
2013 | Fernanda Dórea | Syndromic surveillance in veterinary medicine using laboratory submission data - lessons learned from two systems |
2012 | Anne Relun | Estimation of the relative impact of treatment and management factors on the prevention of digital dermatitis by survival analysis |
SVEPM posters prize awarded to the three best poster presentations
There will be three different types of SVEPM poster prizes, each worth £100, to be announced by the President at the conference dinner on Thursday evening. The 2021 prizes were supported by the Society and Avia-GIS.
• Prize 1: Delegates will be provided with one voting ballot each at registration. Each delegate can vote on up to three different posters on any topic, one point per vote. The voting ballot must be handed in at the conference registration desk by Thursday before the afternoon tea and coffee break. Delegates are asked to vote for the poster author(s) with whom they have had the most interesting or thought-provoking verbal science communication related to the poster contents during the conference.
• Prize 2: The topic of the winning poster in this category will be on bridging the gap between research and decision making. The winning poster will be selected by an independent committee appointed by Avia-GIS amongst conference delegates.
• Prize 3: Any topic, judged by a group of SVEPM Committee members during the conference, according to the following criteria: scientific merit, visual impact, readability and compliance with the SVEPM poster preparation guidelines.
2021 Poster prize awardees, online
Hélène Cecilia | Rift Valley fever virus hosts are not equal: modelling infectiousness at the individual level |
Arianna Comin | How can we improve? Using meat inspection data to identify beef cattle farms with potential animal health and welfare issues |
Marina Meester | Between-batch variability in hepatitis E virus infections in slaughter pigs points to future farm interventions |
2020 Poster prize awardees, online
No poster prize winners, as there were no posters presented in the 2020 conference (COVID-19)
2019 Poster prize awardees, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2018 Poster prize awardees, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 Poster prize awardees, Inverness, Scotland
Arata Hidano | Farmers' decision-making around livestock trading practices |
Anna Irene Vedel Sørensen | Modeling spread of MRSA in a pig's herd |
Ricardo Alexandre Pinto Lopes | Association between antimicrobial prescriptions, production and biosecurity in sows using Additive Bayesian Networks |
2016 Poster prize awardees, Elsingor, Danmark
Giulia Paternoster | A risk index to evaluate Avian influenza |
Ana Carolina Antunes | What to look for when monitoring animal diseases? |
Søren Saxmose Nielsen | Dairy farmers' compliance with culling recommendation |
2015 Poster prize awardees, Gent, Belgium
Arianna Comin | Data-driven, stochastic modeling of Salmonella Dublin infection |
Henriette Brouwer | A prediction model for claw health in dairy herds |
Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen | Risk factors associated with Mycoplasma bovis outbreaks in Danish dairy herds 2010-2014 |
2014 Poster prize awardees, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Poster prize awardees, Madrid, Spain
Ana Antunes | Estimating dog population in Maio Island, Cape Verde |
Timothee Vergne | Towards a better understanding of the transmission of African Swine Fever |
Luis Pedro Gomes do Carmo | Exposure assessment of ESBL in meat |
2012 Poster prize awardees, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 Poster prize awardees, Leipzig, Germany
Kathrin Büttner | Trade Contacts In The Pork Supply Chain-Characterization Of The Network Topology |
Jenny Stavisky | Characterizing The Un-Owned Pet Population In The UK |
Francisco Calvo Artavia | A Case-Control Study Of Risk Factors For Bovine Cysticercosis In Danish Cattle |
2010 Poster prize awardees, Nantes, France
2009 Poster prize awardees, London, UK
Raphaelle Metras | Pilot study for smallholder poultry farms in Northern Vietnam |
Nils Toft | Guidelines for establishing the prevalence of paratuberculosis |
Clara Marce | Transmission assumptions in paratuberculosis models |
2008 Poster prize awardees, Liverpool, UK
Franz Brulsauer | BVD prevalence in Scottish beef suckler herds |
Jenny Frossling | Analysis of the reproductive performance in Swedish breeding cats |
Thierry Hoch | Quantifying the horizontal transmission of Coxella burnetii, a causative agent of Q-fever, in dairy herds |
2007 Poster prize awardees, Dipoli, Finland
Ruska Rimhanen-Finn | Characteristics of rabies exposures in Finnish inhabitants |
Darren Green | Patterns of Atypical Scrapie in Great Britain |
Simon Gubbins | The basic reproduction number for bluetongue virus |
2022 Poster prize awardees, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Marina Meesters | Internal biosecurity measures to reduce hepatitis Evirus positive pigs at slaughter |
Jonas Brock | Pitfalls in the analysis of age-dependent prevalence data |
John Ellis | Assessing the value of environmental surveillance for early detection of foot-and-mouth disease |