ABOUT US<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>THE\u00a0ILLINOIS SWINE HEALTH NETWORK\u00a0IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS PORK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION<\/span>, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SWINE VETERINARIANS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/div>COMMUNICATION<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nSolutions almost always start with talking about it with all of the stakeholders. The primary goal of the ISHN is to promote and facilitate conversations about swine health across all stakeholders in the Illinois swine industry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/div>COLLABORATION<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nWith a network established, and channels of communication open, we will strive to foster collaboration amongst participants to allow them to harness the power of the whole to address their specific challenges in their operations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/i><\/div>CONTEXT<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nThough communication and collaboration individual producers can gain context about how their operation fits in the wider world, what risks they face and what risks they pose to others.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/div>CLARITY<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nThough context we will help individual producers make better decisions for their operation by having the foundation for solid, information based decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>LATEST NEWS<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>CHECK OUR BLOG AND SEE WHAT WE’RE UP TO.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Latest News<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>THE PROBLEM<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>WE HAVE DATA, BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED<\/span> TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>NOVEL DISEASE<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nDisease outbreaks are one of the least predictable causes of production losses for swine producers. In spite of massive investments of capital and time by producers to prevent new disease outbreaks they continue at a higher than acceptable rate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nRapid developments in diagnostic technology have created a flood of new information about the presence and characteristics of pathogens in swine herds. In most cases this rich data stream has not been synthesized to assist in systematic decision making at a herd, system and regional level because aggregating and analyzing the data has been labor intensive and technically challenging.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
MISALLOCATED CAPITAL<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\nThe severe consequences of disease outbreaks coupled with the lack of data syntheses to guide decisions has led to disease prevention investments that have not resulted in the desired reduction in disease introductions. Just as important, this uncertainty has deferred or prevented investments in bio-security infrastructure by producers that are known to reduce risk because the magnitude of the impact cannot be estimated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>THE ANSWER LIES IN US<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>WHILE WE CAN ALL SEE OUR PART OF THE WORLD, IT IS HARD TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING<\/span> THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WIDER WORLD AROUND US. TO CONTROL INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN PIG FARMS KNOWING<\/span> WHAT’S IN THE WIDER WORLD IS A FIRST STEP TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>WHAT’S THE SOLUTION<\/span>?<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>UNIFICATION<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nThe first step in creating understanding is creating a common set of data with unified terms, definitions and data points to allow all participants to speak the same language.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
THE\u00a0ILLINOIS SWINE HEALTH NETWORK\u00a0IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS PORK PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION<\/span>, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SWINE VETERINARIANS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN.<\/p>\n<\/div> Solutions almost always start with talking about it with all of the stakeholders. The primary goal of the ISHN is to promote and facilitate conversations about swine health across all stakeholders in the Illinois swine industry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> With a network established, and channels of communication open, we will strive to foster collaboration amongst participants to allow them to harness the power of the whole to address their specific challenges in their operations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Though communication and collaboration individual producers can gain context about how their operation fits in the wider world, what risks they face and what risks they pose to others.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Though context we will help individual producers make better decisions for their operation by having the foundation for solid, information based decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> CHECK OUR BLOG AND SEE WHAT WE’RE UP TO.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> WE HAVE DATA, BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED<\/span> TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS.<\/p>\n<\/div> Disease outbreaks are one of the least predictable causes of production losses for swine producers. In spite of massive investments of capital and time by producers to prevent new disease outbreaks they continue at a higher than acceptable rate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Rapid developments in diagnostic technology have created a flood of new information about the presence and characteristics of pathogens in swine herds. In most cases this rich data stream has not been synthesized to assist in systematic decision making at a herd, system and regional level because aggregating and analyzing the data has been labor intensive and technically challenging.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The severe consequences of disease outbreaks coupled with the lack of data syntheses to guide decisions has led to disease prevention investments that have not resulted in the desired reduction in disease introductions. Just as important, this uncertainty has deferred or prevented investments in bio-security infrastructure by producers that are known to reduce risk because the magnitude of the impact cannot be estimated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> WHILE WE CAN ALL SEE OUR PART OF THE WORLD, IT IS HARD TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING<\/span> THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WIDER WORLD AROUND US. TO CONTROL INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN PIG FARMS KNOWING<\/span> WHAT’S IN THE WIDER WORLD IS A FIRST STEP TO BETTER UNDERSTANDING.<\/p>\n<\/div> The first step in creating understanding is creating a common set of data with unified terms, definitions and data points to allow all participants to speak the same language.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>COMMUNICATION<\/h2><\/div>
COLLABORATION<\/h2><\/div>
CONTEXT<\/h2><\/div>
CLARITY<\/h2><\/div>
LATEST NEWS<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>
THE PROBLEM<\/h1>\n<\/div>
NOVEL DISEASE<\/h2><\/div>
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL<\/h2><\/div>
MISALLOCATED CAPITAL<\/h2><\/div>
THE ANSWER LIES IN US<\/h1>\n<\/div>
WHAT’S THE SOLUTION<\/span>?<\/h2>\n<\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>UNIFICATION<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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