We are pleased to announce the official publication of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) "Guidelines for African swine fever vaccines: field evaluation and post-vaccination monitoring".
The guideline serves as a technical reference to support Veterinary Services, competent authorities, and other stakeholders in designing, implementing, and evaluating field studies for African swine fever (ASF) vaccine deployment, as well as in post-vaccination monitoring.
The English version is now online, and French and Spanish versions will be published soon.
We invite colleagues and partners to read the guideline on WOAH’s website: https://www.woah.org/en/document/guidelines-for-african-swine-fever-vaccines-2026/.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all co-authors, international partners, and the WOAH team for this major collaborative effort (listed in alphabetical order):
- Applied Epidemiology Group, The Pirbright Institute: Bryony Armson and Georgina Limon.
- The Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences Research Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice (OHRP): Liesbeth Frias, Sergio Guerrero-Sanchez, Ladan Jahangiri, Chun Ting Angus Lam, and Dirk U. Pfeiffer.
- With invaluable expert inputs from: Charles Bodjo (Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre of the African Union – AU-PANVAC, African Union/Ethiopia), Kris De Clercq (former member of the Scientific Commission for Animal Diseases [SCAD], Belgium), Janice Garcia (Animal Health and Welfare Division, Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Animal Industry, Philippines), Livio Heath (Chair of the WOAH ASF Reference Laboratory Network, South Africa), Nick Lyons (Observer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy), Andrés Pérez (College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, United States of America), Javier Pozo González (European Medicines Agency, European Union/The Netherlands) and Le Van Phan (College of Veterinary Medicine, Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Vietnam).
- And the WOAH team: Charmaine Chng, Kevin Isaacs Kawi, Aedín Mac Devitt, Ronald Mora, Yuka Moribe and Gregorio Torres.