2009 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 53-59
We conducted a workshop for veterinarians who are involved in the BSE active surveillance as a part of evaluation to identify problems and get ideas for solutions concerning BSE surveillance system in Japan. In this paper, we report how to plan such a workshop and its outcomes. Every participant was satisfied with the workshop mainly due to interactive opinion-exchanges (intellectual dialogue) among themselves. An ultimate goal of veterinary epidemiological research is to identify problems and propose solutions in fields of public and animal health. Therefore, workshop would be a useful tool to enhance activities among all stakeholders and achieve such a goal of epidemiological research.
