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
To inform the USDA/APHIS/Veterinary Services in its efforts to establish the National Animal Health Surveillance System, primarily to interact with the National Surveillance Unit in the design, planning and implementation of efficient and accurate surveillance for relevant animal diseases and interact with other stakeholders as necessary.
The Steering Committee functions to:
- To receive information from Veterinary Services on surveillance activities and provide individual constituent viewpoints on those activities;
- To carry information from Veterinary Services to constituent groups and seek input;
- To advocate for the National Animal Health Surveillance System through the represented constituencies.
Members
| Akey, Bruce | Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Cornell University |
| Anandaraman, Neena | USDA, FSIS |
| Becton, Lisa | National Pork Board, pork industry representative |
| Bell, Dan | ZZ Cattle Corporation cattle industry representative |
| 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 |
| Gonzales, Raoul | Department of Homeland Security, National Biosurveillance Integration Center |
| Hardesty, Les | Dairy industry representative |
| Hietala, Sharon | California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory |
| Logan, Jim | Wyoming Livestock Board, small ruminant industry representative |
| Martin, Barbara | USDA, APHIS, VS, NVSL |
| Porter-Spalding, Barbara | USDA, APHIS, VS |
| Stonger, Pat | Daybreak Foods, Inc. poultry industry representative |
| Timoney, Peter | University of Kentucky Veterinary Sciences Department, Equine industry representative |
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