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Funding Program: Working Groups

Project Title: Public Tick IPM Working Group

Project Director (PD): Thomas Green [1]

Lead State: WI Lead Organization: IPM Institute of North America, Inc.

Cooperating State(s): California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

Undesignated Funding: $20,000

Start Date: Mar-01-2016 End Date: Feb-28-2017

Pests Involved: Ticks

Summary: Tick populations have rapidly expanded throughout the North Central region, posing a serious threat to public health as exposure and tick-borne disease incidence increase. The primary goal of the Public Tick IPM Working Group is to reduce tick-borne disease incidence by collaborating on IPM-related activities and efforts that ultimately reduce the risk of exposure to ticks and subsequent pathogens. Given the geographic expansion of ticks and the emergence of new pathogens Borrelia miyamotoi, Bourbon virus and Heartland virus infection, our Working Group addresses the North Central IPM Centers priority of Invasive pests and emerging pest problems through enhanced communication for tick management, collaboration on tick tracking systems, and through support and promotion of newly developed technologies related to IPM tick management and pathogen transmission prevention. IPM-based prevention is critical in tick management since human, animal and environmental health are important concerns in tick-infested areas including public parks or schools where chemically based management practices pose health risks to humans and the environment. The Public Tick IPM Working Group provides a platform for both federal and nonfederal members involved in tick-borne disease efforts and supports the existing federal group by maintaining and publishing stakeholder priorities and undertaking projects that address one or more of those priorities. In collaboration with the federal group, ESA and CDC, our Working Group will organize a national integrated tick management for the assessment of available IPM strategies and the identification of research needs that will help inform future technological developments and navigate future collaborative efforts. Objectives: 1. Facilitate regular, multi directional communication with the Federal Tick IPM Workgroup and diverse stakeholders to update, maintain, and communicate current specific stakeholder priorities for research, regulation, education and management, with a special focus on priorities that complement efforts of the Federal Tick IPM Workgroup, to be used by the Working Group, grant makers, grant seekers, regulators and others to identify and pursue stakeholder-identified needs in the management of tick-borne diseases. Stakeholders will newly list priorities in a priority-ranking survey, to be published online as a resource. 2. Develop new tick resource materials through collaboration on projects to evaluate educational resources, resource impacts, behavioral change and movement of ticks and tick-borne disease incidence. Projects should address one or more top-ranked priorities. The Working Group will organize and facilitate a national tick-borne disease IPM conference for May, 2016. The Working Group will assist with development on the TickSmart Web Portal. 3. Continue to coordinate monthly Public Tick IPM Working Group conference calls. Maintain the Working Group website that hosts general information, meeting minutes, priorities, resources, and project developments. Continue to manage Working Group LISTSERV hosted by University of Rhode Island.

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