Swine Health Blackbelt #23 - Creating healthier farms: apps and programs by Dr. Gustavo Machado

Biosecurity is getting more and more advanced every year. Today, we are beginning to see how technology and cooperation can be combined to improve biosecurity across the world and help minimize the spread of disease amongst swine operations. In this episode, I talk to Dr. Gustavo Machado about his work with the RAB app, in collaboration with SHIP, to create a rapid response web app to standardize biosecurity plans.

Meet the guest:

Dr. Gustavo Machado has graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the Federal University of Santa Maria, in Brazil, and received the degree of Master of Science in Veterinary Epidemiology – Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) – from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, also in Brazil. His Ph.D. was earned while he worked with computer scientists on the development of machine learning tools applied to epidemiology. Throughout his career, he has held the positions of Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Postdoctoral Associate in the Veterinary Population Medicine Department at the University of Minnesota, and led his research on transboundary epidemiology in the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology. Nowadays, he holds the position of Assistant Professor at NC State University in the College of Veterinary Medicine.