NAHSS Steering Committee
The NAHSS Steering Committee represents NAHSS stakeholders and includes representatives from livestock and poultry industries, state animal health agencies, diagnostic laboratory organizations, academic institutions, private practitioner organizations, and relevant Federal agencies.
Charge
The NAHSS Steering Committee is charged with guiding the National Center for Animal Health Surveillance in its efforts to establish National Animal Health Surveillance Programs, specifically to guide and support the National Surveillance Unit in the design, planning, and implementation of efficient and accurate surveillance for relevant animal diseases. The Steering Committee functions to:
- Ensure consideration of all Safeguarding Review recommendations
- Guide strategic planning
- Interact with constituencies and obtain stakeholder input and support
- Request and review documents and plans (early and late)
- Seek outside expertise and help (panels and working groups; teams)
- Quality control
- Guide research
Members
| Akey, Bruce | Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Cornell University |
| Anandaraman, Neena | USDA, FSIS |
| Cline, Ken | Cline Trout Farms, Aquaculture industry representative |
| Elvinger, Francois | Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine *Chairman |
| Gaborick, Cindy | USDA, APHIS, VS |
| Gillin, Colin | Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife |
| Hardesty, Les | Dairy industry representative |
| Hietala, Sharon | California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory |
| Logan, Jim | Wyoming Department of Agriculture and small ruminant industry representative |
| Martin, Barbara | USDA, APHIS, VS, NVSL |
| Maulsby, John | Colorado Department of Agriculture |
| Ouitugua, Theresa | Department of Homeland Security |
| Porter-Spalding, Barbara | USDA, APHIS, VS |
| Salman, Mo | Colorado State University |
| Stonger, Pat | Daybreak Foods, Inc. Poultry industry representative |
| Timoney, Peter | University of Kentucky Veterinary Sciences Department, Equine industry representative |
| Webb, Patrick | National Port Board, Pork industry representative |
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