Our Center will host the “International Forum on Animal Health Economics” on December 9, 2025, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., featuring the keynote presentation:Evaluating the Economic Impacts of African Swine Fever on the U.S. Pork Supply Chain.

We are honored to invite an international expert to share the latest research findings and practical insights in the field of animal health economics. Dr. Dustin Pendell, Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, will visit our institution to exchange perspectives and provide guidance on key issues related to animal health.

This forum aims to promote international academic exchange, advance practical applications in animal health economics, deepen scholarly discussions, and broaden research horizons to support global agricultural and animal industry development.

In his talk, Dr. Dustin Pendell will introduce how to leverage Partial Equilibrium Models and Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models to assess the economic impact of an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak in the United States on the pork industry, producer welfare, domestic prices, and global trade. The research findings will demonstrate the supply chain shock under various epidemic scales, as well as the cascading effects resulting from export restrictions and global market substitution, and will point out that the losses to the U.S. pork industry from ASF will exhibit high heterogeneity due to policy and market structures.