MindMap Gallery study questions
This mind map primarily addresses miscellaneous items and surveillance. It discusses various miscellaneous issues that may arise in security and surveillance operations, and how to effectively conduct surveillance through technological means. The map also explores the design and implementation of surveillance strategies and their role in protecting assets and ensuring compliance.
Edited at 2024-05-20 11:08:58Study questions
Study plan
Saturday 18 May 2024 Planning
Sunday 19 May 2024 One health + Misc items
Monday 20 May 2024 Surveillance
Tuesday 21 May 2024 Animal health programs + Economics
Wednesday 22 May 2024 Risk analysis and veterinary services
Thursday 23 May 2024 Disease spread modelling
Friday 24 May 2024 Infectious epi
Saturday 25 May 2024 Outbreak investigation (hopefully finish early)
Sunday 26 May 2024 Evidence based practice + Diseases + Bias
Monday 27 May 2024 Remaining general epi concepts
Tuesday 28 May 2024
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Thursday 30 May 2024
Friday 31 May 2024
Saturday 1 June 2024
Sunday 2 June 2024
One Health
Overview
List the human welfare threats that One Health approach seeks to address
Write a definition of the One Health framework
What are the 5 objectives of the one health approach?
What are the main objectives of a multi-sectoral approach?
WHy does the enviroment matter?
Problem solving
List areas of expertise required for a One Health response
List the relevant stakeholders
Explain the JEV response in Australia
What veterinary epi activities are useful for One Health?
EID
Use a causal model to describe the mechanisms of EID
Create specific SCC for 3 different EIDs
How is environmental change impacting EIDs?
What are the the objectives and themes of EID management?
Apply the One Health activities list to management of EIDs
Zoonosis
Apply the One Health activities list to management of Q-fever risk
Apply it to Salmonellosis
Food safety
List the health risks associated with animals as food
What are the core components of the Safe Foods program in Victoria?
Outline the food safety governance structure at the supranational and national level
Apply the one health activities list to a food safety risk (e.g., listeria in milk)
Outline the risk analysis process for H5N1 in milk
Quadripartite
What are the organisations and the policy frameworks involved?
Name the 5 surveillance systems done by the quadripartite
What are the broad objectives?
Aus CDC
How does the change pathways related to the Australian CDC?
Misc items
Aquaculture
Outline how general epidemiologic concepts related to aquaculture systems
Summarise aquaculture systems currently
Outline the onehealth implications of aquaculture
List surveillance activities in Australia
Apply the disease control lists / factors to Aquatic animals
Wildlife
Overview
Why are wild/feral animals important?
Describe how general epidemiologic concepts relate to wild animals
Outline current knowledge gaps with wild animals and study designs that are used address these
EAD
Apply the control practices and factors to wildlife
What are the commonly used interventions to mitigate the role of wildlife in EAD
Describe wild pig habitats in Australia and their role in disease transmission
Environmental epi
Overview
Define environmental epi
Give examples of environmental research questions
Apply those examples to different study designs
What is the major difficulty with environmental epi? Expand on this
Bushfires
Describe how Cowled et al. evaluated bushfire (exposure) and livestock health
Surveillance
Schematic
What are the key steps in a surveillance system?
Overview
Define surveillance. What are the key features?
What are the main objectives of surveillance
List the main surveillance activities
List the features used to describe surveillance programs Apply the feature list to an Australia surveillance program.
Outline a systematic way to evaluate the value of a surveillance system
Objectives
List each of the objectives and outline
An expanded explanation for the objective (context, outome)
List the most appropriate activities
Acitivites 1 and 2
For each of the main activities. Describe the following
Give 3 examples in Australia
Application to objectives
Methodology and considerations
Pros
Cons / Challenges
Passive vs active
Define active and passive surveillance
List 4 example activities for each
Show examples of how each contribute to the 4 main objectives
Compare pros and cons of each using Stevensons list for evaluating
Clustering sampling
Explain the rationale for cluster sampling
Outline the general approach
Outline the approach to subtypes of cluster sampling
Prevalence surveys
Explain how cluster sampling is used
Drivers of the number of PSU and SSU
Pros and cons of using a cluster approach
Presence surveys
Explain how cluster sampling is used
Drivers of the number of PSU and SSU
Pros and cons of using a cluster approach
Presence survey
Presence survey - overview
What is the underlying conceptual model for disease freedom studies
Define design prevalence. Explain values that are sometimes used. Explain the trade-off between low and high design prevalences.
What sampling approaches are used in presence surveys?
Presence survey - sampling
Explain the rationale for risk-based sampling can be used in presence studies
Disadvantages of risk-based sampling in presence studies
Outline a step-by-step method for sample size calculation
What modifications can be made to sample size calculations?
Presence survey - analysis
What is the "Unit Se"?
Explain how a CSe of 0.95 can be interpreted in a statistical sense. Use probability notation
What are the factors that drive CSe
How is CSp calculated? What is assumed?
CSp is often assumed to be perfect. How can this assumption be strengthened?
How is SSe calculated?
How is a probability of disease freedom estimate interpreted? Use Probability notation
How is disease freedom probability estimated? What are the components?
Presence survey - models
What are the objectives/outputs of scenario tree modelling?
Explain how Scenario tree modelling works
Assumptions
Parameterisation
Pros and Cons of this approach
Prevalence survey
Overview
Define pre-test and post-test prevalence
What is the objective of prevalence surveys?
Outline a general approach to conducting a representative survey?
List the factors that can be addressed/corrected in the analysis phase?
Sample size estimation
List the base parameters and the modifiers
Conduct a basic sample size calculation by hand (just base parameters)
Conduct an example sample size calculation that includes 2 stage cluster sampling and adjustments for other factors.
Sampling
What options exist to get representative prevalence estimate in cluster/stratified sampling?
How can strata be weighted in stratified random sampling?
What are the pros and cons of stratified sampling?
What is the difference between stratified sampling and cluster sampling?
Analysis
What adjustments can be made to prevalence estimates?
What is the best way to adjust for clustering?
Write formulae for AP and TP
Outline Bayesian estimation of TP
How can a sampling weight be calculated for an individual unit?