Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System (CAHSS) Division Director, Dr. Doris Leung, collaborated on a paper, Avian Influenza: Lessons from Past Outbreaks and an Inventory of Data Sources, Mathematical and AI Models, and Early Warning Systems for Forecasting and Hotspot Detection to Tackle Ongoing Outbreaks, which has been recently published in Healthcare and is available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/12/19/1959.

The connection to participate in the paper was made when Dr. Jude Kong was asked to be a keynote speaker at the AHC Forum 2024. Dr. Kong is a Canadian Research Chair in Community-Oriented Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease. The CAHSS team has been meeting with him and his team weekly to create connections to animal health surveillance.

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