The congress gathered 958 participants. 

Maria Irian Percedo Abreu from Centro Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria (CENSA) in Cuba and member of the CaribVET  Swine diseases  and Epidemiology  Working Groups attended the congress.

The objective was:

• to promote the work of the Center of Animal and Plant health (CENSA), regarding One Health strategy in Cuba, through the Center of Training for Sanitary Disasters Reduction in Animals and Plants (CEDESAP) and its network REDesastres.
• to increase the expertise and knowlodge about the relationships among animal-plant-pathogen-environment. The expectation of the increasing the multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation by the contact with the professionals of different countries in order to develop new projects, for instance, to support the creation of a thematic network focused in the capacitation of human resources in disaster risk reduction and management in agricultural sector. Also, for the increasing of REDesastres network with specialist of the different regions of the world.

A poster: "Surveillance and risk communication focused on “One Health”: CEDESAP-REDesastres in the sanitary risk reduction strategy in agricultural sector (M. I. Percedo Abreu, P. Alfonso Zamora, M.T Frías-Lepoureau, I. González Hernández, M.A. Abeledo Garcia, H. Canales Becerra, M. G. Rodriguez Hernandez, O. Fonseca Rodriguez, L. Regalado)