Dr Gounalan Pavade is a veterinarian with a doctorate in Veterinary pathology. He is currently working as senior scientific coordinator for avian influenza at the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) at its Headquarters, Paris since 2010. His main activities at WOAH include scientific coordination of regional and international activities on avian, swine and equine influenza, managing the global animal influenza network called OFFLU (www.offlu.org) and collaborating with WHO influenza network on human-animal interface activities. Additionally he also provides technical support for camel diseases.
Before joining WOAH, he worked as Research Scientist at National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases, an WOAH reference laboratory for avian influenza in India. His main work at this laboratory included virological and pathological diagnosis of various exotic animal diseases including avian influenza, bovine viral diarrhea, and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.
For his work on ‘Pathology of Newcastle disease virus and its interaction with mycotoxins in layer chicken’, he received the University Gold medal and Jawaharlal Nehru award for outstanding doctoral thesis research in agricultural and allied sciences for the year 2006 from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
He has published several papers on avian influenza and represented WOAH in international conferences and symposium.
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Keynote Paper 2
Role of WOAH in Controlling High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Poultry
