 MSI, FAO's platform for animal disease information, contributes to animal disease intelligence at a global level in two ways. First, it is an integrated platform where the FAO and partners can share information, view the global animal disease situation and extract data, maps and graphs. This is essential for coordinated risk assessments, communications, preparedness and early response. Second, it is a powerful tool used every day by the FAO team to track and analyze animal disease events and effectively support members in their preparedness and control activities. MSI is a powerful information system that transforms information into intelligence, leading to effective actions that saves lives and livelihoods. MSI is one of the most comprehensive online global animal disease event databases and it's invaluable for two reasons. One of them is actually that it brings information together from a range of different sources and it then allows us to perform advanced analytical analyses using customizable functions and risk collector layers. In the case of zoonotic diseases, which are those that can be transmitted between animals and humans, FAO shares information from MSI with our partner organizations, WHO and OIE, which is the World Organization for Animal Health. And then together we assess the risks of emerging events, way before they develop into epidemics or even pandemics. And we decide if a joint response or a coordinated support is required from the three organizations. MSI is one tool that makes it easier to think about where the risks are and then to come up with ideas of in relation to potential interventions. We've used MSI for teaching spatial analysis courses and as part of that we needed them to show, visualize the distribution of diseases and also how those patterns changed over time. And we also then got them to import the data into specialized statistical analysis packages that allowed them to do more sophisticated spatial analyses. We need to understand how diseases are moving around the world and that is where we need to have easy or effective ways of accessing disease occurrence data from around the world. And MSI makes that relatively easy by bringing in the data from the different sources together and allows us to analyze and present or visually analyze information and then present the patterns of the disease across boundaries. So it's not just within the national context but can be within a regional context, can be across the whole world. So a regular key activity that makes use of MSI disease event information is undertaken by the joint OIE FAO network of expertise on animal influencers or off-loop. And by combining information available in MSI and OIE's why he's database off-loop compiles the epidemiological information on animal influencer from an animal health perspective. And this information is then used in the biannual influenza vaccine composition meeting organized by WHO for human vaccines. During this meeting experts select virus strains that have public health relevance and could even have pandemic potential and by linking animal disease event data to corresponding genetic sequence data from these viruses. We can assess the spread of zoonotic influenza viruses in space and time and then evaluate which animal species they affect. And before MSI was available this was actually very difficult to do. One had to use information from other sources and extract the XY coordinates and then import them into a specialized GIS system. With MSI it's possible to do it very quickly and you can retell it in the way how we as spatial analysts or as epidemiologists need it. And then we can use the resulting maps to communicate to decision makers, to other stakeholders, to farmers what the issues are and what the concerns are in relation to disease presence and also potential spread. By early warning by finding these outbreaks fast and before they develop and spread further we can make sure that we have targeted action ready which at the point of development of the first outbreak is much more cost effective than when it has developed into an epidemic or pandemic already. Animal disease control is essential if we want to keep the world safe and that is not just about human diseases because some of those diseases could affect humans but it's also about the productivity of animals. And that then is associated with the food that we're consuming, the amount of food, the price of the food, the quality of the food and also animal welfare. And given the high density of humans and the clustering of the human population in the world and the movement that there is in relation to food products and to people there are plenty of opportunities for pathogens to spread and that includes animal pathogens. By sharing data and by working together we can coordinate our preparedness and an effective global response to disease events and this is obviously essential to mitigate the risk to animals, humans but also the economy and so much more. As you can see, Impress Eye is a vital tool in the global fight against trans-boundary animal disease events.