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 What
is GEMP?
GEMP Good Emergency Management Practice, in animal
health, is the sum total of organised procedures,
structures and resource management that lead to
early detection of disease or infection in an
animal population, prediction of the likely spread,
prompt limitation, targeted control and elimination
with subsequent re-establishment of verifiable
freedom from infection in accordance with the
International Animal Health Code.
The GEMP program is organised
according to a theory - that the end result should
be a measurable contribution made by the program
to defining and implementing "Good Emergency
Management Practice".
The model for this goal is taken
from the international success of Good Clinical
Practice over the past three decades. Since its
introduction, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) has
come to regulate the conduct of clinical research
worldwide. And now with the adoption of the ICH
version of GCP there is a universal standard for
the domain. GCP deals with the "before, during
and after" of clinical studies.
GCP works to protocols and procedures,
and has particular interest in "adverse events"
and "serious adverse events", both of
which have many affinities with emergency situations
in animal disease, for example, the need for rapid
reporting and response.
GCP requires properly qualified
and regularly trained staff as a sine qua non
of safe, successful research.
Above all, GCP has demonstrated
the practical value of standardisation on a global
scale of best practices, since in the end it is
practice rather than theory that has validated
GCP.
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