Breed-Specific Health Strategies Theme: Outline for Participants

Possible Questions For The Breakout Sessions

• Who is doing what and where... and what is making a difference?
  • Are there existing materials, approaches and tools which can be shared?  How do we find information on how the problem is addressed in other countries? 
  • Can DogWellNet.com be used more/better in this area?
• What has held us back on following through on actions from the 2nd International Dog Health workshop? (see summary presentations from Dortmund) 
• Is it possible to create a successful health strategy without creating a breed specific breeding strategy (in the sense of an all including strategy comprising health, mentality, working ability for working breeds, conformation and genetic diversity)?
  • What are the benefits/ challenges of using the same strategy in different countries?
  • How do we evaluate/ monitor the impact of strategies?
• Roles and responsibilities across stakeholder groups?
• Relevant discussions may go on in other themes, for example:
  • Numbers Theme: collecting accurate information on populations (demography, prevalence, risk, etc.); potential for comparison and collation across various sources of data.
  • Harmonization of Genetic Testing:  resources being developed on DNA testing, application and genetic counselling.
  • Health and Welfare Issues of Exaggerated Conformation: health and welfare; breed-specific issues; challenges for ‘popular’ breeds; etc.

Possible Specific Outcomes For The Breed-Specific Health Strategies Theme :

• Create guidelines “how to create/components of a breed specific breeding program”; distribute internationally. Assign working group?  Arrange translations in various countries
• Collaborations: assign specific people to the task of creating and sharing the information mentioned above and find ways of using DogWellNet.com more effectively as a sharing point for information about health/breeding strategies in different breeds and countries.
• How do we engage breed clubs, breeders and other stakeholders?  Are there others who could be involved?

Organisation of Breakout Session:
Time frame (refer to 3rd IDHW Program Overview, Schedule, Themes and Speakers March 2017):

• To be accomplished before 1st Sharing session on Saturday at 16 :05-17 :45) 
  • Breakouts : 11 :15 - 13 :00 and 14 :30-15 :45 Saturday
    • Introduction 
      • Explain the background for the group and what tasks are required.
      • Explain discussion format ; facilitator’s role. 
    • Short presentations from 2 or 3 individuals?
    • Address questions; identify and prioritize issues; identify gaps ; what are the issues that would most benefit from an international perspective and what are current barriers?
       
• To be accomplished before 2nd Sharing session on Sunday 10 :45-13 :00
  • Breakout: 08 :30-10 :15 Sunday.
  • Identify specific actions for identified priorities.
  • Assign names to working groups or initiatives.

Required pre-workshop reading:
Presentations and outcome of the 1st and 2nd Dog Health Workshops.
The material about RAS (breed specific breeding strategies) at DogWellNet.com.