Welcome to a new episode of our podcastIn preparation for our new online course, Rodrigo Nova, EuFMD Training Technical Coordinator talks with Gary Flory, Agricultural & Stormwater Program Manager for the Valley Regional Office of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, about Culling and disposal for FAST Diseases; 2) Depopulation for FAST Diseases; 3) Culling/Disposal, cleaning and disinfection in a FAST Disease;Rodrigo is a veterinarian working at the EuFMD as Training Technical Coordinator for Pillar I activities. His work focus on providing training for Member Nations and supporting the development of veterinary capacity in countries the EuFMD supports. He studied veterinary medicine at the University of Concepcion, Chile, where he later worked in official controls in red meat industry and later on, as a veterinary consultant in food safety for dairy and meat industry. He was awarded a PhD in Food Microbiology from the University of Nottingham (UK) ​​​and a Post Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Public Health from the University of Ulster (UK). There, he was appointed as a member of the academic staff at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science University of Nottingham, where he developed the veterinary public health curriculum. Gary Flory founded G.A. Flory Consulting​​​, a global consulting firm, to help clients with a range of services including animal disease and natural disaster response, agricultural emergency planning, and emergency response training. He has been a lead investigator on numerous research projects focused on providing new tools in the fight against animal diseases and natural disasters affecting agriculture. Gary has conducted training, given presentations, and deployed on numerous animal disease outbreaks around the country and internationally to a number of countries including the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Tunisia, Korea, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Azerbaijan. He also serves as a technical reviewer and Subject Matter Expert on agricultural issues for a variety of organizations including the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). Gary currently serves on FAO’s African Swine Fever Global Pool of Expertise.