I recently attended the WOAH 92nd Congress in Paris, which is attended by representatives from over 150 countries along with the WOAH staff and invited guests, to review and manage the global animal health situation.
This year’s forum centered around vaccination and its benefits for not only animal health, but also the potential benefits to One Health, AMR reduction, and climate impact mitigation.
A referendum on increasing vaccine availability and usage was passed unanimously (view on the WOAH.Org website) but for its effect and impact, will require a stronger partnership between the private and public organizations involved. And most importantly, aligning potential vaccine usage with the WTO policies, which can create challenges.
Of note, during the program there was a special event where Brazil was declared FMD free without vaccination. Congratulations to Brazil for this tremendous effort as it took a multi-stakeholder effort by the livestock industry, animal health companies and government support to achieve this result.
On another note, I would like to also congratulate Ceva on its recent round of financing, resulting in a new valuation of nearly $10B USD. It’s an incredible story of growth through the years led by Dr. Marc Prikazsky, but also congratulations to many of my friends who also worked there and certainly were a big reason for the success! Maybe it will be the next publicly traded animal health company?
In my view, tremendous value creation is happing in animal health which offers not only growth- but consistent, sustainable growth. Nice to see the investment community interest is following!
Paul Casady
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