Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Ecosystems, livestock/wildlife, health and wellbeing
Lead Research Organisation:
International Livestock Research Institute
Department Name: Livestock Systems and the Environment
Abstract
Health is a critical aspect of human wellbeing, interacting with material and social relations to contribute to people's freedoms and choices. Especially in Africa, clusters of health and disease problems disproportionately affect poor people. Healthy ecosystems and healthy people go together, yet the precise relationships between these remain poorly understood. The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium will provide a new theoretical conceptualisation, integrated systems analysis and evidence base around ecosystem-health-wellbeing interactions, linked to predictive models and scenarios, tools and methods, pathways to impact and capacity-building activities geared to operationalising a 'One Health' agenda in African settings.
Ecosystems may improve human wellbeing through provisioning and disease regulating services; yet they can also generate ecosystem 'disservices' such as acting as a reservoir for new 'emerging' infectious disease from wildlife. Indeed 60% of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans originate from animals, both domestic and wild. These zoonoses have a huge potential impact on human societies across the world, affecting both current and future generations. Understanding the ecological, social and economic conditions for disease emergence and transmission represents one of the major challenges for humankind today.
We hypothesise that disease regulation as an ecosystem service is affected by changes in biodiversity, climate and land use, with differential impacts on people's health and wellbeing. The Consortium will investigate this hypothesis in relation to four diseases, each affected in different ways by ecosystem change, different dependencies on wildlife and livestock hosts, with diverse impacts on people, their health and their livelihoods. The cases are Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, henipaviruses in Ghana, Rift Valley Fever in Kenya and trypanosomiasis in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Through the cases we will examine comparatively the processes of disease regulation through ecosystem services in diverse settings across Africa.
The cases are located in a range of different Africa ecosystem types, from humid forest in Ghana through forest-savanna transition in Sierra Leone to wooded miombo savanna in Zambia and Zimbabwe and semi-arid savanna in Kenya. These cases enable a comparative exploration of a range of environmental change processes, due to contrasting ecosystem structure, function and dynamics, representative of some of the major ecosystem types in Africa. They also allow for a comparative investigation of key political-economic and social drivers of ecosystem change from agricultural expansion and commercialisation, wildlife conservation and use, settlement and urbanisation, mining and conflict, among others.
Understanding the interactions between ecosystem change, disease regulation and human wellbeing is necessarily an interdisciplinary challenge. The Consortium brings together leading natural and social scientific experts in the study of environmental change and ecosystem services; socio-economic, poverty and wellbeing issues, and health and disease. It will work through new partnerships between research and policy/implementing agencies, to build new kinds of capacity and ensure sustained pathways to impact.
In all five African countries, the teams involve environmental, social and health scientists, forged as a partnership between university-based researchers and government implementing/policy agencies. Supporting a series of cross-cutting themes, linked to integrated case study work, the Consortium also brings together the University of Edinburgh, the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium and Institute of Zoology (supporting work on disease dynamics and drivers of change); ILRI (ecosystem, health and wellbeing contexts); the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex (politics and values), and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (institutions, policy and future scenarios).
Ecosystems may improve human wellbeing through provisioning and disease regulating services; yet they can also generate ecosystem 'disservices' such as acting as a reservoir for new 'emerging' infectious disease from wildlife. Indeed 60% of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans originate from animals, both domestic and wild. These zoonoses have a huge potential impact on human societies across the world, affecting both current and future generations. Understanding the ecological, social and economic conditions for disease emergence and transmission represents one of the major challenges for humankind today.
We hypothesise that disease regulation as an ecosystem service is affected by changes in biodiversity, climate and land use, with differential impacts on people's health and wellbeing. The Consortium will investigate this hypothesis in relation to four diseases, each affected in different ways by ecosystem change, different dependencies on wildlife and livestock hosts, with diverse impacts on people, their health and their livelihoods. The cases are Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, henipaviruses in Ghana, Rift Valley Fever in Kenya and trypanosomiasis in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Through the cases we will examine comparatively the processes of disease regulation through ecosystem services in diverse settings across Africa.
The cases are located in a range of different Africa ecosystem types, from humid forest in Ghana through forest-savanna transition in Sierra Leone to wooded miombo savanna in Zambia and Zimbabwe and semi-arid savanna in Kenya. These cases enable a comparative exploration of a range of environmental change processes, due to contrasting ecosystem structure, function and dynamics, representative of some of the major ecosystem types in Africa. They also allow for a comparative investigation of key political-economic and social drivers of ecosystem change from agricultural expansion and commercialisation, wildlife conservation and use, settlement and urbanisation, mining and conflict, among others.
Understanding the interactions between ecosystem change, disease regulation and human wellbeing is necessarily an interdisciplinary challenge. The Consortium brings together leading natural and social scientific experts in the study of environmental change and ecosystem services; socio-economic, poverty and wellbeing issues, and health and disease. It will work through new partnerships between research and policy/implementing agencies, to build new kinds of capacity and ensure sustained pathways to impact.
In all five African countries, the teams involve environmental, social and health scientists, forged as a partnership between university-based researchers and government implementing/policy agencies. Supporting a series of cross-cutting themes, linked to integrated case study work, the Consortium also brings together the University of Edinburgh, the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium and Institute of Zoology (supporting work on disease dynamics and drivers of change); ILRI (ecosystem, health and wellbeing contexts); the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex (politics and values), and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (institutions, policy and future scenarios).
Planned Impact
Many major policy studies - from UK Foresight to the UN - have identified the global dangers of disease emergence, especially from areas where understandings of disease dynamics, detection and response is poor. A recent report in PNAS (Chan et al., 2010) looking at all disease outbreaks globally showed how detection of infectious diseases and warning of emerging epidemics was extremely poor in Africa, yet the continent is the origin of half the world's outbreaks.
A 'One Health' approach, integrating human, animal and ecological health in a holistic framework, has been suggested as a response. But what should a One Health approach look like, and how would it work in African settings? The DDDAC will gear its outputs towards producing the answers to these questions, ones being posed by policymakers across the globe. Through its detailed case study work, focused on four important, but often neglected, diseases in five locations across Africa, combined with broader modelling and scenarios work, looking at disease drivers and future impacts, the Consortium will build a 'One Health' toolbox for use by practitioners and policymakers in Africa. It will provide cost-effective methodological tools for developing an effective 'One Health' approach for the African setting.
Through its novel approach to interdisciplinary analysis of ecosystems, health, poverty and well-being, and particularly its focus on integration across scales, disciplines and sectors, DDDAC will contribute to the growth of the new cross-disciplinary fields of eco-health and socio-ecological systems, providing new concepts, frameworks and methodologies for a growing research and practitioner community.
Engaging potential users of DDDAC research will happen from the very beginning. Key users will cut across sectors - from environmental management to wildlife conservation to veterinary and health systems, as well as broader rural development actors. Research users will involve diverse government departments, non-government agencies, the private sector and local communities, and will stretch from the local to national to international levels. All country project teams involve a partnership between government officials in key departments (usually the DDDAC host) and university researchers. This allows the Consortium an important opportunity to link research directly with national policy, gaining access to high-level national policy discussions from the outset.
In order to establish a Consortium-wide approach to research communications and policy engagement, we will use an adapted Participatory Impact Pathways Assessment (PIPA) approach which has been used successfully within the STEPS Centre. This articulates well with the ESPA impact framework, and provides a practical methodology for implementing it. Early stakeholder dialogues in all project sites will allow DDDAC to engage with users in refining research design, map potential impact pathways and define an impact and engagement plan.
This plan will operate across scales from particular field sites, involving community actors, local officials and development projects, to national level debates cutting across environment, health and agriculture/rural development sectors to the international level, where UN agencies such as the WHO and FAO, as well as major environmental and development NGOs, are eager to engage with the Consortium to define a practical 'One Health' approach, grounded in solid, field-based evidence.
A 'One Health' approach, integrating human, animal and ecological health in a holistic framework, has been suggested as a response. But what should a One Health approach look like, and how would it work in African settings? The DDDAC will gear its outputs towards producing the answers to these questions, ones being posed by policymakers across the globe. Through its detailed case study work, focused on four important, but often neglected, diseases in five locations across Africa, combined with broader modelling and scenarios work, looking at disease drivers and future impacts, the Consortium will build a 'One Health' toolbox for use by practitioners and policymakers in Africa. It will provide cost-effective methodological tools for developing an effective 'One Health' approach for the African setting.
Through its novel approach to interdisciplinary analysis of ecosystems, health, poverty and well-being, and particularly its focus on integration across scales, disciplines and sectors, DDDAC will contribute to the growth of the new cross-disciplinary fields of eco-health and socio-ecological systems, providing new concepts, frameworks and methodologies for a growing research and practitioner community.
Engaging potential users of DDDAC research will happen from the very beginning. Key users will cut across sectors - from environmental management to wildlife conservation to veterinary and health systems, as well as broader rural development actors. Research users will involve diverse government departments, non-government agencies, the private sector and local communities, and will stretch from the local to national to international levels. All country project teams involve a partnership between government officials in key departments (usually the DDDAC host) and university researchers. This allows the Consortium an important opportunity to link research directly with national policy, gaining access to high-level national policy discussions from the outset.
In order to establish a Consortium-wide approach to research communications and policy engagement, we will use an adapted Participatory Impact Pathways Assessment (PIPA) approach which has been used successfully within the STEPS Centre. This articulates well with the ESPA impact framework, and provides a practical methodology for implementing it. Early stakeholder dialogues in all project sites will allow DDDAC to engage with users in refining research design, map potential impact pathways and define an impact and engagement plan.
This plan will operate across scales from particular field sites, involving community actors, local officials and development projects, to national level debates cutting across environment, health and agriculture/rural development sectors to the international level, where UN agencies such as the WHO and FAO, as well as major environmental and development NGOs, are eager to engage with the Consortium to define a practical 'One Health' approach, grounded in solid, field-based evidence.
Organisations
- International Livestock Research Institute (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Sussex (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (Collaboration)
- One Health Initiative (Collaboration)
- Antigone (Collaboration)
- Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) (Collaboration)
- University of Antwerp (Collaboration)
- Association on Higher Education and Disability (Collaboration)
- One Health International Conference (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
Publications
Lo Iacono G
(2016)
A Unified Framework for the Infection Dynamics of Zoonotic Spillover and Spread.
in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Lo Iacono, G
(2014)
Process-Based Modelling for Rift Valley Fever
Lo Iacono, G
(2014)
Estimating the contribution of human- to-human transmission to Lassa fever
Lo Lacono G
(2018)
Environmental limits of Rift Valley fever revealed using ecoepidemiological mechanistic models
in PNAS
Lo Lacono G
(2017)
The environmental limits of Rift Valley Fever revealed using eco-epidemiological mechanistic models
in PNAS
Lo Lacono G
(2018)
Environmental limits of Rift Valley fever revealed using ecoepidemiological mechanistic models
in PNAS
Lo Lacono, G.
(2015)
The Lassa super-spreaders and lessons from 17th century Milan
Lo Lacono, G.
(2013)
How multi-disciplinary work was made meaningful for me
Mableson HE
(2014)
Neglected zoonotic diseases-the long and winding road to advocacy.
in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
MacGregor, H.
(2015)
Responding to uncertainty: Bats and the construction of disease risk in Ghana
in Political Economy of Knowledge and Policy
Title | Investigating the impacts of land use, climate and biodiversity changes on human health and wellbeing |
Description | Poster |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Impact | to be advised |
URL | http://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/investigating-the-impacts-of-land-use-climate-and-biodiversity-change... |
Description | We investigated the occurrence of a number of zoonoses and the relation between zoonoses risk and land-use change (irrigation). We found this was complex with irrigation increasing risk of some and decreasing risk of other. We identified the first human case of MERS in Kenya. |
Exploitation Route | They are being taken forward by our partners in DVS and also by the research community |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Education Environment Healthcare Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
Description | The government of Kenya has improved its capacity for RVF surveillance and response. USAID has funded additional work on RVF partly as a result of our findings |
First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | AHEAD - Animal & Human Health for the Environment and Development |
Organisation | Association on Higher Education and Disability |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Informal collaboration to cross-promote the work of each other and work with each other whenever appropriate. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | ANTIGONE |
Organisation | Antigone |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Collaboration with James Wood |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Collboration |
Organisation | University of Antwerp |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Currently in contact with Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet. Elisabeth has shown some interest in collaborating for modelling, but nothing formalized yet. Elisabeth is a co-author of the paper on human-to-human transmission of Lassa. This has been completed and will be soon circulated to Elisabeth and Colleen Webb (co-chair of small mammals RAPIDD working group) as well as the internal co-authors. Professor Wood and Professor Cunningham have made provisional plans to visit her lab on 14th April 2014 |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium |
Organisation | Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium |
Country | Global |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The Consortium as a whole is developing collaboratations across universities, government department and other organisations, as well as across natural and social science disciplines within and between them.4 |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | ESPA Researchers invited to join national/regional/international panels, committees and processes relevant to ESPA |
Organisation | One Health International Conference |
Country | Sri Lanka |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Meeting hosted by Sue Welburn with FAO at the One Health Conference in Bangkok. Also our policy briefing was distributed here and at the One Health Side Meeting "Promoting Global Solidarity of One Health Approaches" Aims: a. Present the approaches and findings of the different projects/initiatives on neglected zoonoses with special reference to adopting the One Health approach b. Discuss and share experiences between the projects, initiatives, new approaches in other continents and within other contexts c. Identify options for future collaboration and synergies with other present, past and future initiatives worldwide d. Advocate for the use of One Health in addressing neglected zoonotic diseases |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Lancet Commission |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaboration on new Lancet Commission which aims to ?produce a report that draws on international transdisciplinary expertise to prioritise policy responses to climate change, in order to protect and promote human health?. A short synthesis version of the report will be published by the Lancet early 2015 (after peer-review). |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | One Health Initiative |
Organisation | One Health Initiative |
Country | Global |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Informal agreement to collaborate on cross-promotion of work and anything else that's relevant as and when appropriate |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | Pandemic Flu Controversies: What have we learned? A workshop to discuss lessons, policy implications and future challenges |
Organisation | University of Sussex |
Department | Centre for Global Health Policy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Participation at two-day workshop |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) |
Organisation | Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) |
Country | Sweden |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | DDDAC has become a member of PECS, a 10-year programme hosted by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and UNESCO. It is a collaboration platform for research projects that explore the interface between ecosystem change, ecosystem services and human wellbeing. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | RAPIDD |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Collaboration between James Wood and RAPIDD |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | A Zambia workshop with a Zambia livestock hub |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A Zambia workshop with a Zambia livestock hub |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | A conference by the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | ISNTD Bites, "A conference by the International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases". Oct 15th 2013 at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.isntdbites2013.com/ |
Description | A deadly disease could travel at jet speed around the world. How do we stop it in time? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Observer newspaper article. Also online at http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/12/deadly-disease-modern-global-epidemic Feature on possiblity of a new global pandemic, by science corr Alok Jha. Online at http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/12/deadly-disease-modern-global-epidemic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Addressing water-related health risks in agro-ecosystems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Boelee, E. and Grace, D. 2012. Addressing water-related health risks in agro-ecosystems. Presented at the 2012 World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 26-31 August 2012. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Addressing water-related health risks in agroecosystems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Boelee E, Grace D, 2012, Addressing water-related health risks in agroecosystems, 2012, World Water Week, 26-31 August 2012, Stockholm, Sweden |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | African Cities Test The Limits Of Living With Livestock |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | online article online article from NPR on studies relevant to Drivers of Disease |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | African horse sickness could soon affect horses in Europe, researchers warn |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | online article Article in Nature World news http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/2118/20130527/african-horse-sickness-soon-affect-horses-europe-researchers-warn.htm on research into African Horse Sickness the results of which are relevant to the diseases studied by D |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Agriculture for nutrition and health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Grace, D. and McDermott, J. 2012. Agriculture for nutrition and health. Presented at the 2012 Ecohealth conference, Kunming, China, 15-18 October 2012. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Andrew Cunningham at IOHC2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards. unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.iohc2015.com/program/program_schedule/session8 |
Description | Andrew Cunnungham's FAO newsletter article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://forestry.fao.msgfocus.com/q/15RgxaesHEFDyqbhiv/wv |
Description | Annie Wilkinson attended Meeting with Sierra Leone Deputy Health Minister |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Meeting at Houses of Parliament with deputy Health Minister of Sierra Leone |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Are bacteria and viruses winning? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog on Sci Dev Net |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.scidev.net/global/disease/multimedia/podcast-farmers-gold-ghana-disease-ebola.html?utm_me... |
Description | Avian influenza, pandemic influenza and ecohealth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Butler C and Grace D, 2012, Avian influenza, pandemic influenza and ecohealth. 4TH Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology and Ehealth, 15th-18th October, Kunming, China |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Bats and Emerging Infectious Diseases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Part of the Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Dynamics Course, presented by James Wood at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Bats and rats and emerging infectious diseases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Bats and rats and emerging infectious diseases was given by Prof James Wood as part of the Wolfson Fiftieth Anniversary LEcture Series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/news/wolfson-50-introducing-next-lecture-series |
Description | Bernard Bet & Purity Kiunga at EA Zoonoses 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talked sparked questions and discussion afterwards unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/ecological-niche-modelling-for-mapping-rvf-risk |
Description | Bernard Bett at EAzoonosis 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/healthy-people-animals-and-ecosystems |
Description | Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://globalhealth.thelancet.com/2015/01/15/lassa-super-spreaders-and-lessons-17th-century-milan |
Description | Capacity Development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Kofi Amponsah-Mensah from Ghana undertook a four-week internship at the Institute of Zoology (IoZ) from 27th July -26th August 2013. During the period, he received training in laboratory procedures and the use of Luminex to test sera collected from bats for the presence of antibodies for Hendra (HeV), Nipah (NiV), Marburg (MarV) and Ebola (EboV). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Collaborative investigations on persistence and transmission of zoonotic viruses in and from bats in Ghana; fruitful collaborations between Ghana and the UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of Cambridge Africa Day, James Wood gave a presentation on Collaborative investigations on persistence and transmission of zoonotic viruses in and from bats in Ghana; fruitful collaborations between Ghana and the UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-africa-day-23rd-october-2015-registration-18437134967?aff=e... |
Description | Development of a protocol for the Rift Valley fever case study-Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Ecosystems, livestock/wildlife, health and wellbeing project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | workshop report Case study workshop on 30th August 2013 to: (i) assess whether the proposed case study activities and workplans align with the project objectives and hypotheses, (ii) identify ways of integrating activities across themes and teams, and, (iii) review |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/34048 |
Description | Drivers of Disease in Africa |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | presentation Presentation on Consortium, focussing on Zambia, at ESPA meeting in Nairobi |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Drivers of Trypanosomiasis in Zambia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presentation Presentation at AGM of Veterinary Association of Zambia, in Lusaka. Audience of vets, vets assistants, animal health facility owners/managers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC) Inaugural team workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC) Inaugural team workshop, STEPS Centre, IDS, Brighton, 25-27 June 2012 Capacity strengthening activity in discussions of research planning and multidisciplinary working |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Dynamic drivers of disease emergence in Africa - from hypothetical frameworks to the field |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Seminar at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences seminar to One Health Sweden discussing the effects of land use in the shape of irrigation schemes. Irrigation schemes may contribute to changes in the incidence of vector-borne diseases, as well as changes in biodiversity among birds and mammals, and the |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Epidemiology, ecology & socio-economics of disease emergence in Nairobi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Fevre, E.M., Woolhouse, M.E.J., Davila, J., Grace, D., Kang'ethe, E., Kariuki, S., Kyobutungi, C., Robinson, T., Rushton, J. and Tacoli, C. 2012, Epidemiology, ecology & socio-economics of disease emergence in Nairobi, 13th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, 20-24th August, Maastricht, Netherlands |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Estimating the contribution of human-to-human transmission to Lassa fever |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | paper presented at Medical Research Council Conference on Biostatistics. 24-26 March 2014, Cambridge UK Paper presented to Medical Research Council Conference on Biostatistics. 24-26 March 2014, Cambridge UK http://www2.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/mrccob2014/pdf/mrccob2014_contributed-talks-timetable.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Expert on Animal tp Human Disease: Drivers of Disease Outbreaks linked to agricultural and environmental change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | online article Online article http://www.newswise.com/articles/drivers-of-disease-outbreak-linked-to-agricultural-intensification-and-environmental-change on Newswise |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Framing the Problem of Emerging Zoonotic Disease Risk Using a One Health Approach |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hung Nguyen-Viet, Dominic Travis, Dirk Pfeiffer, Suwit Chotinun, Jakob Zinsstag, Delia Grace, Boripat Siriaroonrat, Bruce Wilcox, 2012, Framing the Problem of Emerging Zoonotic Disease Risk Using a One Health Approach, 4TH Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology and Ehealth, 15th-18th October, Kunming, China |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Gianni Lo Iacono Lancet GH blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Unknown Online interest in author's work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://globalhealth.thelancet.com/2015/01/15/lassa-super-spreaders-and-lessons-17th-century-milan |
Description | Gianni Lo Iacono at IOHC 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.iohc2015.com/program/program_schedule/session15 |
Description | Human health risks at the animal-human interface |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Otte J, Grace D, 2012, Human health risks at the animal-human interface, Regional Policy Forum on Asian Livestock, Challenges, Opportunities and the Response, 16-17 August, 2012 Bangkok, Thailand |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Innovations and incentives in agricultural research for poor countries |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Grace D and Randolph T, 2012, Innovations and incentives in agricultural research for poor countries, Agriculture for Development, 26-27th September, Uppsala, Sweden |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | International agricultural research and agricultural associated diseases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Grace, D and McDermott J, 2012, International agricultural research and agricultural associated diseases, International One Health Summit, Global Risk Forum, Davos, Switzerland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Kathrin Schaten at IOHC2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.iohc2015.com/program/program_schedule/session10 |
Description | Kenya team stakeholder workshop 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | Developed participatory models and validated previously identified scenarios for RVF unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Mapping the interface of poverty, emerging markets and zoonoses |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Grace D., 2012 Mapping the interface of poverty, emerging markets and zoonoses, 4TH Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology and Ehealth, 15th-18th October, Kunming, China |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Mathematical challenges in modeling Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation on Mathematical challenges in modeling Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Melissa Leach was a panel member at Ebola: The Challenge roundtable at African Studies Association conference, University of Sussex, 10th September 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Melissa Leach was a panel member at Ebola: The Challenge roundtable at African Studies Association conference, University of Sussex, 10th September 2014 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Melissa Leach was a panel member at Ebola: The Challenge roundtable at African Studies Association conference, University of Sussex, 10th September 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Melissa Leach was a panel member at Ebola: The Challenge roundtable at African Studies Association conference, University of Sussex, 10th September 2014 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Model for Lassa Fever in humans: a prototype for spillover mechanism |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Model for Lassa Fever in humans: a prototype for spillover mechanism |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | One Health Approaches: Genesis, implementation and best practices |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at National One Health Symposium in New Delhi Presentation at One health Symposium in new delhi |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Pandemic Flu Controversies: What have we learned? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop of international experts in pandemics co-organised by the Drivers of Disease Consortium Objective to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss policy issues and challenges surrounding pandemics. Attended by key figures in global pandemic policy making and research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Participatation in the review of RVF Contingency Plan for Kenya (Bernard Bett, ILRI) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | (to be completed) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Persistence of viral pathogens in West African fruit bats. Challenges and opportunities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Seminar held at the University of Edinburgh Infectious Diseases unit. Speaker - James Wood. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.eid.ed.ac.uk/seminar/roslin-institute-seminars-james-wood-university-cambridge-persistenc... |
Description | Potentially zoonotic viruses in West African fruit bats |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Infectious Diseases Genomics Conference, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 15 October 2015 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://conf.hinxton.wellcome.ac.uk/advancedcourses/IDG2015programme.pdf |
Description | Q Fever in Africa and Asia - a systematic literature review and mapping of disease |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Boelee E, Ochungo P, Grace D, 2012, Q Fever in Africa and Asia - a systematic literature review and mapping of disease, International Q fever Symposium, 7th June, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Regional Consultation on One Health/Ecohealth - Identifying the challenges |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presentation at the regional consultation presentation at Regional Conference on One Health/Ecohealth ni new Delhi |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Review of protocols for a study on Rift Valley fever and other acute febrile illnesses in humans in Ijara and Tana River sub-counties, Kenya |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | workshop to review the objective, design, expected benefits and ethical requirements of the human health element of the Drivers of Disease research in Kenya Workshop involving DDDAC researchers and local medical officers and personnnel in the field area to review the objective, design, expected benefits and ethical requirements of the human health element of the Drivers of Disease research in Kenya |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Risk Management In India |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | UKIERI-funded Conference hosted by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore's Centre for Public Policy in association with STEPS Centre |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.risk-management-india.com/ |
Description | Rural Kenyans are bringing their cows with them to cities. What could go wrong? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | online newspaper article Delia Grace quoted in article in The Atlantic considering zoonoses and livestock in urban areas |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Salome Bukachi ITM 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards too early |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Studies of the ecology of RNA viral infections in their natural chiropteran hosts in West Africa; how to assess spillover risks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar held at Institut Pasteur, Paris on 3 Feb 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Study highlights threat of African Horse Sickness in UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Online article Artice on NZ Horsetalk http://horsetalk.co.nz/2013/05/28/study-highlights-threat-african-horse-sickness-britain/#axzz2f43RreId looking at work on Horse Sickness which is also relevant to the diseases studies in this consortium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Business Case for One Health |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Grace, D., 2013 The Business Case for One Health, Second One Health Conference in Africa, April 16th-19th, Arusha, Tanzania. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Drivers of Disease Consortium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Melissa Leach, 'The Drivers of Disease Consortium', Presentation to ESPA Science Conference, 19 November 2012, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The Drivers of Disease Consortium: Impacts and policy influence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Melissa Leach and Naomi Marks, 'The Drivers of Disease Consortium: Impacts and policy influence', Presentation to ESPA Workshop, 20 September 2012, London n |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The One Health and zoonoses lens: how can interdisciplinary development science meet global challenges? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An event held at theInstitute of Development Studies on October 15th 2018 organised by IDS/DSA, as part of the DSA 'Meeting the Challenges' series and supported by the ESRC and ZELS programmes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | The challenge of climate-related infectious diseases in undermining social entrepreneurship development for rural communities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Bett, B., 2013. The challenge of climate-related infectious diseases in undermining social entrepreneurship development for rural communities. In: Proceedings of the National Museums of Kenya - DAAD high level forum on climate change and biodiversity, held in Nairobi on 18-19th July. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The contribution of agricultural research to managing zoonoses and foodborne diseases |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Grace, D. and Mcdermott, J., 2012, The contribution of agricultural research to managing zoonoses and foodborne diseases, 13th International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, 20-24th August, Maastricht, Netherlands |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | University talk (Leeds) - Andrew Cunningham, "Understanding infection dynamics of potentially zoonotic pathogens in fruit bats in Ghana, West Africa" to the School of Biology, University of Leeds on 18th December 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | unknown at present |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Where new Infectious diseases come from and how do they emerge? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor James Wood's interests lie in the dynamics of infections at different scales, from sub-cellular, through to within host and the population level. His work focusses on processes underlying emergence of infectious diseases in various models, including dynamics of the generation of viral variants within hosts and during transmission of influenza, the potential impact of lyssavirus and henipavirus infections in African bat reservoir hosts, and bovine tuberculosis persistence and control. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://cambridgemedsoc.com/medsin-talk-free-professor-james-wood-where-do-new-infectious-diseases-c... |
Description | William Shereni and Vupenyu Dzingirai will participate in a PATTEC conference in Harare on the 26 November, 2014. PATTEC is a collection of countries fighting tryps and tsetse in Africa |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | William Shereni and Vupenyu Dzingirai will participate in a PATTEC conference in Harare on the 26 November, 2014. PATTEC is a collection of countries fighting tryps and tsetse in Africa |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Workshop on infectious disease dynamics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop on infectious disease dynamics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |