Presentations

2011 to 2013
Conference, Invited and Workshops Posters
Stephen C. 2013. Multidisciplinary collaboration as an approach to finding new strategies for Japanese encephalitis management in Nepal. Zoonoses and emergence of infectious diseases: Biology meets anthropology. College de France. Paris. June

Stephen C. 2013. Risk assessment in a multiscalar, multi-stakeholder, uncertain real world. BC Salmon Farmers Association Workshop on Addressing the Recommendations of the Cohen Commission. Campbell River. May. 2013

Stephen C. A brief introduction to One Health. PAHO workshop on developing One Health capacity in the Caribbean. Port of Spain. March, 2013

Stephen C. 2013. Why the next generation of veterinarians needs to know the deep definition of One Health . Faculty Seminar. College of veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Colorado State University

Stephen C. 2013. Panel on One Health and Food Security. Prince Mahidol Award Conference- A world united against infectious diseases – Cross-sectoral solutions, Bangkok

Stephen C. 2012. Overview of actors involved in capacity development: Need for a multi-party approach. World Trade Organization Standards and Trade Development Facility Seminar of International Trade and Invasive Species. Geneva, Switzerland. July.

Stephen C. 2012. My five lessons in capacity development. Wildlife Disease Association Wildlife Health Capacity Pre-meeting Workshop. Lyon, France

Stephen C. 2012 One Health and wildlife health. Wildlife Society Annual meeting. Portland. Oct

Stephen C. 2012 What could the One Health perspective bring to public health? Public Health Agency of Canada webinar.

Stephen C.  2012. What could the One Health perspective bring to public health? Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Association Annual Meeting. Saskatoon

Parkes M, Stephen C. 2012. Taking it Outdoors:  Health, Ecology and Implications for BC Communities. BC Ministry of Health Seminar Series. Victoria. Nov.

Stephen C. 2012. Why the continuum of life matters for communicable disease threat assessment. Best Brains Symposium. Health Canada. Ottawa.

Stephen C. 2011. Ecohealth, public health and one health. 1st International One Health Conference. Melbourne

Stephen C. 2011. Global health and veterinary medicine. Student Canadian Veterinary Medicine Symposium. Calgary

Stephen C. 2011. Food Security and Health: Whose security and whose health? Vancouver Island University workshop on seafood security. Nanaimo.  Nov.

Stephen C. 2011. Health promotion as an avenue to appropriate use of veterinary drugs. Antibiotic Awareness Week Webinar. National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases.  Oct

Stephen C. 2011. When Chicken Little Roasts Next Door: Assessing public health risks from animals. Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors Annual Meeting. Calgary.  Oct

DeJager T, Stephen C, Sandaruwan P, Anderson K, Burns T, Jayasinghe JMPK. 2012. Clusters and connections: Improving adoption of better management practices in Sri Lanka’s aquaculture industry.  World Aquacutlrue Society 2012. September, Prague.

Westers T, Ribble C, Jayasinghe JMPK., Wu J, Sears W, Stephen C. 2012.  Identifying Best Management Practices Associated with Reduced White Spot Disease Prevalence on Smallholder Shrimp Farms in Sri Lanka. 13th International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) Conference 2012, Aug 20-24, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Anholt M., Jamal I., Berezowski J., Stephen C.2012. The Usefulness of Mining Free-Text Companion Animal Medical Records for Surveillance. International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Maastricht, Aug

L Vrbova, C Stephen, M Koehoorn, D Patrick. 2012.  Detection of Emerging Infectious Disease Trends and Clusters in Animal Laboratory Data for Public Health Surveillance. 25th Pečenka´s Epidemiological Days, Society for Microbiology and Epidemiology of the Czech Medical Association September, Harrachov, Czech Republic.

Dawson J, Wade J, Stephen C. 2012. Policy and legislation gap assessment for sustainable development of freshwater ornamental fish aquaculture in Sri Lanka. Aquaculture Association of Canada. May 2012 Charlottetown.

Burns T, Wade J, Stephen C. 2012. Aquaculture as a global health tool: Positive human development outcomes associated with aquaculture. Aquaculture Association of Canada. May 2012 Charlottetown.

Stephen C.  2012. Implications of our inability to conduct risk assessments for wild salmon health. Wildlife Disease Association.  Lyon, France

Anholt, M., Berezowski, J., Stephen C. 2011. Mining Free-Text Medical Records for Pet Disease Surveillance.  Canadian Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, St. Hyacinthe, QC. (best presentation award). May

Sawford K, Robertson C, Gunawardana W,  Stephen, C. (2011) Building emerging infectious disease intelligence in low-middle income countries: the potential role for mobile phoned-based surveillance systems. International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance. May 17-20, Lyon, France.

Anholt M., Stephen C. 2013 The Use of Informatics to Describe Patterns of Antimicrobial Use by Companion Animal Veterinarians. Canadian Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. Saskatoon. Won best poster.

 

Wu JP, Checkley S, Westers T, DeJager T, Daniel S, Stephen C. 2012. Aquaculture, food security, and gender roles in Sri Lanka. International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Maastricht. Aug

Westers T, Ribble C, Wu J, Stephen C. 2012. Developing indices for identifying obstacles to achieving sustainability on smallholder Sri Lankan shrimp farms. International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Maastricht

L Vrbova, C Stephen, M Koehoorn, D Patrick. 2012.  Animal health surveillance using sentinel veterinarians: A public health perspective on a pilot project. 25th Pečenka´s Epidemiological Days, Society for Microbiology and Epidemiology of the Czech Medical Association September, Harrachov, Czech Republic.

L Vrbova, C Stephen, M Koehoorn, D Patrick. 2012.  Utility of algorithms in the analysis of multi-species Salmonella surveillance data in British Columbia, Canada.  25th Pečenka´s Epidemiological Days, Society for Microbiology and Epidemiology of the Czech Medical Association September, Harrachov, Czech Republic. Maastricht, Aug.

Valeix S,  Lokugalappatti LGS, Abeyanake P, Prasad T, Chandrasiri ADN, Daniel SLA, Stephen C, Leighton FA. (2011). A feasibility study for establishment of a national wildlife health centre in Sri Lanka. OIE Global Conference on Wildlife: Animal Health and Biodiversity – Preparing for the future.  Paris. 23-25 February 2011.

2010 to 2011
Conference, Invited and Workshops Posters
Curry P, Kutz S, Hutchins W, Elkin B, Ribble C, Veitch A, Jenkins D, Hope G, Nielsen K. 2010. Caribou Health Matters: Innovative Sampling and Hunter Perspectives. Kah Mowitch: Where are the Deer? 10th National Gathering of Grad Students in Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, Vancouver, BC, Jun 24-26.

DeJager  T.  2011. Awareness, Access, and Application: Aquaculture Case and Actions in Sri Lanka – Poverty, Food Security, Sustainability. University of Calgary, AB, Oct 12.

DeJager  T.  2011. Awareness, Access, and Application: Knowledge for Sustainable Shrimp Farming in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Workshop on Best Management Practices for Sustainable Shrimp Farming in Eastern Province, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, Feb 2.

DeJager  T.  2011. Knowledge, sustainable aquaculture and food security: A collaborative research project of the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka and the University of Calgary. IDRC/CIDA Project Inception Workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Feb 2.

DeJager  T.  2010. Web-Enabled Veterinary Public Health Networking in Sri Lanka: Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Initiative Project. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Jan 20.

DeJager  T.  2010. Collaboration challenges in a research project on food security in Sri Lanka. International Project Management Institute, University of Calgary, AB, Dec 8.

DeJager  T.  2010. Web-Enabled Veterinary Public Health Networking in Sri Lanka: Teasdale-Corti Global Health Research Initiative Project. University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Jul 27.

 

Ribble C. 2011. The Canadian Experience with Congenital Joint Laxity and Dwarfism in Beef Herds.  Workshop on Bovine Congenital Chondrodystrophy, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF), Backweston Campus, Ireland, Jul 14. Participation by teleconference.

Salb A, Ribble C, Elkin B, Stephen C. 2010. Weather as a predictor of anthrax outbreaks in wild wood bison. Wildlife Disease Association, Argentina.

Sawford K, Robertson C, Gunawardana W,  Stephen C. 2011. Building emerging infectious disease intelligence in low-middle income countries: the potential role for mobile phoned-based surveillance systems. International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance, Lyon, France, May 17-20.

Stephen C. 2011. Ecohealth, public health and one health. 1st International One Health Conference, Melbourne.

Stephen C. 2011. Global health and veterinary medicine. Student Canadian Veterinary Medicine Symposium, Calgary.

Stephen C. 2010. Policy implications of adopting a One Health agenda. Keynote lecture. National Policy Development and Awareness Workshop. China-Canada Livestock health Extension Project, Beijing.

Stephen C. 2010. BC Zoonoses Annual Meeting: Ten years, now what? Plenary lecture. British Columbia Annual Zoonoses meeting, Langley.

Stephen C. 2010. Building and maintaining health research across disciplines and sectors: The challenges of crossing many cultures. International Chapter. Association of Project management Professionals. Participation by international webinar.

Stephen C. 2010. Developing Research programs: Personal experiences and insights. Institute for Population and Public Health, CIHR.

Curry P, Kutz S, Elkin B, Hutchins W, Ribble C, Campbell M, Nielsen K. 2010. Circum-Arctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network (CARMA). Blood on Filter Paper for Detecting Brucella Exposure in Caribou: Validation and Herd Investigation. [Poster] N Am Caribou Workshop, Winnipeg, MB, Oct 24-28.; J Waters Zoonotic Diseases Workshop, Calgary, AB, Nov 18-19.

Pollock S, Vrbova L, Anholt M, Stephen C. 2010. Observations and opinions on the integration of public health and veterinary medicine: Human dimensions. [Poster] International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Atlanta.

Valeix S,  Lokugalappatti LGS, Abeyanake P, Prasad T, Chandrasiri ADN, Daniel SLA, Stephen C, Leighton FA. 2011. A feasibility study for establishment of a national wildlife health centre in Sri Lanka. [Poster] OIE Global Conference on Wildlife: Animal Health and Biodiversity – Preparing for the future.  Paris, France, Feb 23-25.

2009 to 2010
 Conference  Invited  Public & Workshop
Forde M, Stephen C. 2010. An assessment methodology linking health equity and climate adaptation issues in coastal areas at a community level. 2010 Caribbean Academy of Science Conference. Antigua.

Vrbova L, Stephen C, Patrick D. 2010. Sentinel animal health surveillance for public health. International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Atlanta.

Ribble C, Stitt T, Iwasawa S, Toews L, Stephen C. 2010. A Review of Alternative Practices to Antimicrobial Use for Disease Control in the Commercial Feedlot. Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Disease Resistance (caAMR) Consultation, National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases. Feb 10-11. Winnipeg.

Robertson C, Sawford K, Stephen, C, Daniel S, Nelson T. 2009. Infectious Disease Surveillance and Analysis – Sri Lanka.[poster] GEOMED 2009. November 14-16.

Charleston, SC. Iwasawa S. 2009. A study to inventory tick species, tick distribution and the presence of an emerging zoonotic pathogen (Burrelia burgdorferi), on Vancouver island. 9th Annual Symposium on Zoonotic and Communicable Diseases.

Dawson-Coates J, Stephen C, Dale A. 2009. Policy in support of  sustainable ornamental fish farming in Sri Lanka. Aquaculture, Canada. Nanaimo (poster).

Munasinghe N, Abeynayake P,

Abeygunawardena I, Stephen C. 2009. Health management practices for prawn farmers in Sri Lanka. Aquaculture Canada. Nanaimo (Poster).

 

 

Stephen C. 2010. Developing Research programs: Personal experiences and insights. Institute for Population and Public Health. CIHR.

Stephen C. 2010. Food production as a determinant of health. Second Annual Sheela Basrur Symposium. Toronto. Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.

Stitt T. 2010. RMOT Introduction to Wildlife Disease. Vancouver Island University. Nanaimo.

Ribble C, Dubé C. 2009. Using Social Network Analysis to Help with Preparedness and Planning for Foot-and-Mouth Disease.

Population Health Intervention Research Centre Seminar Series. Calgary. Dec 2.

Stephen C. 2009. Risk, vulnerability or resilience. What do CWD managers want from risk assessments? PrioNet CWD workshop. Park City Utah.

Stephen C. 2009. Veterinary public health on the ground floor. CVMA Leaders Forum. June. Montreal.

Stephen C. 2009. Challenges in forecasting patterns of zoonotic disease in response to climate change. 26th International Conference on Chemotherapy and Infection. June. Toronto.

Stephen C. 2009. Highly pathogenic avian infl uenza in Canada” A case example from British Columbia. Sri Lanka Veterinary Association Annual Meeting. March. Kandy.

Stitt T. 2009. Bridging Public Health Education and Veterinary Medicine. University of Calgary. Calgary.

 

Stephen C. Expert panel on swine influenza. May 2009. Liu Institute for Global Studies. University of British Columbia.

Stephen C. Science Café – Food Security. Calgary Feb 2009. Sponsored by the CIHR–IPPH and the University of Calgary.

Dawson-Coates J. Review of Sri Lankan freshwater ornamental Aquaculture Policy and Regulations. Teasdale-Corti Veterinary Public Health Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 24 July 2010.

Ribble C, Dubé C. 2009. Describing Animal Movement Networks to Help with FMD Preparedness and Response Planning. British Columbia Foot-and-Mouth Disease Forum and Workshop, Abbotsford, BC, Oct 27.

2009 and Earlier
Conference Invited Conference Proceedings
Stephen, C. (2009). Expert panel on swine influenza.

Liu Institute for Global Studies. University of British Columbia.

 

 

 

 

Stephen, C. (2009). Science Café – Food security. Sponsored by the CIHR –IPPH and the University of Calgary.

 

 

 

 

Ribble, C., Dubé, C. (2009).  Using social network analysis to help with preparedness and planning for foot-and-mouth disease.  Population Health Intervention Research Centre Seminar Series, Calgary, Dec 2.

 

 

 

 

Stephen C. (2009). Risk, vulnerability or resilience. What do CWD managers want from risk assessments? PrioNet CWD workshop. Park City Utah

 

 

 

 

Stephen C. (2009). Veterinary public health on the ground floor. CVMA Leaders Forum. June. Montreal

 

 

 

 

Stephen C. (2009). Challenges in forecasting patterns of zoonotic disease in response to climate change.th International Conference on Chemotherapy and Infection. June. Toronto 26

 

 

 

 

Stephen C. (2009). Highly pathogenic avian influenza in Canada:  A case example from British Columbia.Kandy Sri Lanka Veterinary Association Annual Meeting. March.

 

 

Stephen C. (2008). Animal health and public health: the past informs the future. Alberta Provincial Laboratory 100th Anniversary Symposium. Edmonton.

 

 

 

 

Stephen C. (2008). Veterinary aspects of methacillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Seminars on Zoonotic Diseases. University of Peradeniya. July Peradeniy

 

 

 

 

Stephen, C. (2008). Veterinary medicine on the edge: looking at health problems across places, issues and species. SCVMA Annual Meeting. Guelph

 

 

 

 

Stephen, C. (2008). How safe is safe: Grappling with the issues of wild sheep – farm sheep interactions. Bighorn Sheep Disease Workshop. Salt Lake City.

 

 

 

 

Stephen, C. (2008). Ecosystem health in a veterinary curriculum. Presentation to the University of Minnesota Ecosystem Health Working Group. St. Paul

 

 

 

 

Parmley, J. et al. (2007). Canada’s National Wild Bird Avian Influenza Survey: What are we doing, what have we found, where are we going? Wildlife Disease Association Annual General Meeting, Estes Park, CO.

 

 

 

 

Parmley, J. & Leighton, T. (2007). Canada’s Inter-agency Wild Bird Influenza Survey: 2005, 2006 and beyond. Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, Victoria, BC.

 

 

 

Stephen, C. (2007). Wildlife health management: Developing the “Colorado Charter”. Wildlife Disease Association AnnualMeeting. Estes Park. Aug.

 

Stephen, C. (2007). Prediction, prevention and control of emerging diseases: The role of veterinary services. PHAC-PAHO Joint Meeting on Veterinary Public Health. Ottawa. May 2007.

 

Stephen, C. (2007). Attributing cause and effect in free-ranging wildlife: Challenges and shifting approaches. Keynote lecture. Respiratory Disease in Mountain Sheep: Knowledge, Gaps and Future Research. Davis, California.

 

Stephen, C. (2007). Panics, pandemics and poisons: Part 1-origins. Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology. Victoria (opening presentation).

 

Stephen, C. (2007). Panics, pandemics and poisons: Part 2-solutions. Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology. Victoria (closing presentation)

 

Stephen, C. (2007). Interprofessional health practice: From concept to reality. National Health Science Student Association Meeting. Saskatoon. Jan.

 

Ribble, C., Stitt, T., Iwasawa, S., Toews, L., Stephen, C. (2010).  A review of alternative practices to antimicrobial use for disease control in the commercial feedlot.  Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Disease Resistance (caAMR) Consultation, National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, Winnipeg, Feb 10-11.

 

 

Robertson, C., Sawford, K., Stephen, C., Daniel, S.L.A., and Nelson, T.A. (2009) Infectious Disease Surveillance and Analysis – Sri Lanka.[poster] GEOMED 2009. November 14-16, Charleston, SC.

 

 

 

 

Iwasawa, S. (2009).  A pilot study to inventory tick species, tick distribution, and the presence of an emerging zoonotic pathogen (Borrelia burgdorferi) on Vancouver Island.  The 9th Annual Symposium on Zoonotic And Communicable Diseases, Vancouver, Nov.

 

 

 

 

Dawson-Coates J, Stephen C, Dale A. (2009). Policy in support of sustainable ornamental fish farming in Sri Lanka. Aquaculture Canada. Nanaimo (poster)

 

 

 

 

Ribble, C., Dubé, C. (2009).  Describing animal movement networks to help with FMD preparedness and response planning.  British Columbia Foot-and-Mouth Disease Forum and Workshop, Abbotsford, BC, Oct 27.

 

 

 

 

Munasinghe N,  Abeynayake P, Abeygunawardena I,  Stephen C. (2009). Health management practices for prawn farmers in Sri Lanka. Aquaculture Canada. Nanaimo (poster)

 

 

 

 

Curry, P., Kutz, S., Ribble, C., Hutchins, W., Elkin, B., Campbell, M., Godson, D., Robinson, J., Nielsen, K., Lindsay, R. (2009).  Infectious disease in caribou: The blood-on-filter paper screening tool.  Alaska Wildlife Society Meeting, Apr 7-9, Fairbanks, Alaska (poster).

 

 

 

 

Dubé, C., Ribble, C., Kelton, D., McNab, B., Javier, S., Alejandro, R. (2008).  Network analysis of livestock movements to estimate potential silent spread of foot-and-mouth disease.  EuFMD Conference (FAO): The Global Control of FMD: Tools, Ideas, and Ideals, Erice, Italy, Oct 15.

 

 

 

 

Stephen C, Sawford K. (2008). Post-tsunami in Sri Lanka: Rebuilding for the long term. 29th World Veterinary Congress. Vancouver, July 27-31, 2008.

 

 

 

 

Pollock, S, Anholt M, Stephen C. (2008). Linking Animal and Human Health Data: Needs, Gaps and Capacity 29thVancouver, July 27-31, 2008. World Veterinary Congress,

 

 

 

Dubé, C., Ribble, C, Kelton, D., McNab, B. (2008).  A comparison of network analysis measures to predict potential epidemic size.  Canadian Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Charlottetown, May 24.

 

 

 

 

Vrbova L, Stephen C, Kasman N, Boehnke R, Doyle-Waters M, Gibson B, Chablitt-Clark A, Fitzgerald M, Patrick D. Systematic Review of Surveillance Systems for Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. (2008). International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008, Atlanta, March 16-19

 

 

 

Vrbova L, Stephen C, Kasman N, Boehnke R, Doyle-Waters M, Gibson B, Chablitt-Clark A, Fitzgerald M, Patrick D.  (2008). Surveillance Systems for Emerging Infectious Diseases: Definitions of Surveillance and Evaluation.  Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada and the Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI-CACMID) Conference 2008, Vancouver, Feb 27-March 1.

 

Pollock S, Stitt T, Stephen C. (2007). An ecologic perspective on patient history: an approach to the diagnosis of zoonotic disease. BC Public Health Association Meeting (Poster).

 

Good, C.M., Thorburn, M.A., Martin, S.W., Stevenson, R.M., Ribble, C.S. (2007).  A prospective case-control study of bacterial gill disease outbreaks in Ontario, Canada government salmonid hatcheries.  (1) 15th Annual Northeast Farmed Fish Health Management Workshop, Calais, Maine, Mar 27; (2) Flavobacterium 2007, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, May 3; (3) 32nd Annual Fish Health Workshop, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Jun 18-22.

C. Dubé, C. Ribble, D. Kelton, B. McNab, 2008.  A Comparison of Network Analysis Measures to Predict Potential Epidemic Size.  Canadian Association of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Charlottetown, May 24.