Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Ecosystems, livestock/wildlife, health and wellbeing
Lead Research Organisation:
Institute of Development Studies
Department Name: Research Department
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 wellbeing, 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 wellbeing, 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
- Institute of Development Studies (Lead Research Organisation)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) (Collaboration)
- Association on Higher Education and Disability (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- One Health International Conference (Collaboration)
- University of Sussex (Collaboration)
- Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (Collaboration)
- One Health Initiative (Collaboration)
- Antigone (Collaboration)
- University of Antwerp (Collaboration)
- World Health Organization (Project Partner)
- DIVERSITAS (Project Partner)
- EcoHealth Alliance (Project Partner)
- United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health (Project Partner)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Project Partner)
- International Development Research Centre (Project Partner)
- University of Edinburgh (Project Partner)
Publications
Wood JL
(2012)
A framework for the study of zoonotic disease emergence and its drivers: spillover of bat pathogens as a case study.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Cunningham AA
(2017)
One Health for a changing world: new perspectives from Africa.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Bardosh KL
(2017)
Engaging research with policy and action: what are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa?
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Leach M
(2017)
Local disease-ecosystem-livelihood dynamics: reflections from comparative case studies in Africa.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Cunningham AA
(2017)
One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Scoones I
(2017)
Integrative modelling for One Health: pattern, process and participation.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jephcott F
(2017)
Facility-based surveillance for emerging infectious diseases; diagnostic practices in rural West African hospital settings: observations from Ghana
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Gibb R
(2017)
Understanding the cryptic nature of Lassa fever in West Africa.
in Pathogens and global health
Anderson NE
(2015)
Sleeping sickness and its relationship with development and biodiversity conservation in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia.
in Parasites & vectors
Marks N
(2018)
How can interdisciplinary development science meet global challenges?
in One Health and the zoonoses lens
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 | 1. Findings from multidisciplinary mapping of tsetse distribution in the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, has been conveyed direct to Zimbabwe legislators and senior government representatives in relevant ministries to inform tsetse control. In addition the deputy minister had the research results explained on a field visit. Wider regional impact can also be expected to follow from presentation at the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign at which senior government reps form other countries were present. 2. Findings from research into the drivers of endemic RVF in Kenya have informed a concept note seeking to identify the ecological factors that predispose people to pathogens. This builds on the partnerships of the researfh Consortium and adds in Kenya's Zoonotic Disease Unit, a policy institution directly linked to the ministries of health and agriculture 3. Multidisciplinary mapping and modelling of RVF in Kenya has resulted in the development of practical tools. RVF risk maps were used to plan surveillance at national level from October -December 2015 to identify areas where authorities could focus their attention and resources in a risk-based RVF surveillance. This was essential to the government's strategy of disease monitoring and containment. Other findings, including those regarding vaccination coverage, have been presented to policymakers in Kenya and elsewhere ein East Africa, as well as at international meetings organised by OIE and FAO 4. Anthropological research into Sierra Leonean institutions and the socio-cultural beliefs and practices surrounding infectious diseases found application when the Ebola epidemic hit West Africa in 2014/15 and it contributed to the creation of the Ebola Response Anthrolopogy Platform (www.ebola-anthrolopogy.net)which which offered advice to the medical and humanitarian response teams. It was accessed by more than 16,000 users. As a partial result of the Sierra Leone work Melissa Leach was invited to join the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies advising the UK Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientist. She also jhoined the WHO Science Committee, WGHO Ethics Working Group and Wellcome Trust Ebola Trials Committee. Both she and fellow Consortium member Annie Wilkinson gave written and oral evidence to four UK Parliamentary enquiries on Ebola. 5.Workshops with local people at research sites in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia, feeding back the One Health research into trypanosomiasis carried out by the Consoritum, was effective in communicating information about disease and disease risk. They also resulted in local populations considering the creation of farming groups so that they can club together to buy drugs or ask for support - otherwise unavailable in this very poor area. |
First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Ecosystems and zoonotic disease in Africa |
Impact | presentation at a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Development & the Environment entitled 'How Ecosystem Services are tackling climate change and alleviating poverty' The APPG for International Development and the Environment is a forum whereby parliamentarians can discuss the links between environment and poverty and engage with people and organisations outside Parliament. |
Description | Mapping of Poverty and Likely Zoonoses Hotspots |
Impact | Mapping study, the conclusions of which were key in influencing the creation of the ZELS (zoonoses and emerging livestock systems) funding call from the ESRC, BBSRC, DFID and MRC. Also influential in the setting up of the funding call were email exchanges between Melissa Leach/Ian Scoones and Merzet Sabirovic from DFID (who also undertook an individual study fellowship at the STEPS Centre). Melissa and Ian also commented on early drafts of the funding call. |
Description | One Health Lessons from Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | 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 |
Description | Pandemic Flu Controversy: What have we learned? A workshop to discuss lessons, policy implications and future challenges |
Impact | A two-day workshop of international leading experts in pandemics held at the STEPS Centre. Influence indicated by positive feedback from participants, including senior Wellcome Trust and ECDC representatives. |
Description | Section 3.4 of reporting template: ESPA Researchers invited to make presentations to national/regional/international panels or committees on policy relevance of work. |
Impact | • Delia Grace participated in a regional consultation on Onehealth/Ecohealth : With Special Emphasis on AADs, November 25th, 2013, New Delhi. • Delia Grace participated in the National One Health Symposium, November 26, 2013, Hotel Royal Plaza, New Delhi, Organised by: Massey University, New Zealand and Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi. • Delia Grace participated in the National Expert Consultation on Intersectoral Coordination for prevention and control of zoonoses in India, 27 November 2013; Hotel Royal Plaza, Ashoka Road, Delhi. |
Description | Zoonoses - From Panic to Planning |
Impact | A four-page briefing on zoonoses in Africa featuring seven recommendations based on a One Health approach to disease control. Circulated within DFID, bringing zoonoses and One Health to the maintream development agenda. |
Description | Zoonoses - From Panic to Planning |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Department | Microbicides Development Programme |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2012 |
End | 01/2013 |
Description | Zoonoses - From Panic to Planning |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Department | Microbicides Development Programme |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2012 |
End | 01/2013 |
Title | Computer model |
Description | The model to infer the contribution of human-to-human transmission to Lassa fever is finished, computer code implemented and analysis completed. Findings will be presented at international conferences and peer reviewed publication (see above). Computer code and data output are available on request. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Title | Computer model- Kenya |
Description | The eco-epidemiological model for Rift Valley Fever is completed and reviewed by the Kenya country team. Implementation of the corresponding computer models and analysis is currently in process. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Title | Database- RVF case study |
Description | RVF case study: new database with data from questionnaire surveys, entomology, animal and human sampling, and PRAs recorded electronically |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Title | Dynamic Drivers of Disease dataset |
Description | Library of GIS layers of population, bioclimatic variables and land use for Africa. Lassa virus alignment and spatially references phylogeny. Spatially referenced, dated phylogeny for Lassa host Mastomys natalensis. Spatially referenced abundance database by habitat for M. natalensis. Current and future species distribution (niche) models for M. natalensis. Spatial database of human diseases (collection ongoing) |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Title | Particpatory modelling |
Description | Framework and methods for participatory modelling of people,ecosystems and disease interactions |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Provided To Others? | No |
Title | Policy interviews on trypanosomiasis in Zambia, 2013 |
Description | This resource contains anonymised policy interviews on trypanosomiasis in Zambia from 2013 conducted by Catherine Grant (Institute of Development Studies) and Noreen Machila (University of Zambia, Department of Disease Control). These interviews explore the differing opinions of various stakeholders in relation to trypanosomiasis, a widespread and potentially fatal disease spread by tsetse flies which affects both humans and animals. It is an important time to examine this issue as human population growth and other factors have led to migration into new areas which are populated by tsetse flies and this may affect disease levels. This means that there is a greater risk to people and their livestock. Opinions on the best way to manage the disease are deeply divided (Source: Author Summary- Grant, C, Anderson, N and Machila, N [Accepted] Stakeholder narratives on trypanosomiasis, their effect on policy and the scope for One Health, Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTD). This was part of a wider research project, the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC) and these interviews contributed to this consortium. The research was funded by NERC project no NE/J001570/1 with support from the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Title | Rift Valley fever virus seroprevalence data from people involved in a cross-sectional survey in Tana River and Garissa counties, Kenya (December 2013 - February 2014) |
Description | These data include results from serological analysis carried out on serum collected from randomly recruited subjects, merged with household and subject level data about the subjects. The subject and household data collected included occupation of the household head, size of the household, and occupation, gender and age of the subject. Samples were collected from 303 people based in irrigated areas, 728 people from pastoral areas and 81 people from riverine areas along River Tana in Tana River and Garissa counties, Kenya. Field surveys were implemented in December 2013 to February 2014 and laboratory analyses were completed in June 2015. Serum samples were harvested from blood samples obtained from randomly recruited subjects and screened for anti-RVF virus immunoglobulin G using inhibition ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) immunoassay. The household and subject metadata was collected using Open Data Kit (ODK) (https://opendatakit.org) loaded into smart phones. The aim of the project was to determine the risk of Rift Valley Fever virus exposure in people living in areas with different land use and socio-ecological settings. The data were collected by experienced researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (Kenya), the Department of Disease Surveillance and Response, Kenyatta National Hospital This dataset is part of a wider research project, the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC). The research was funded by NERC project no NE/J001570/1 with support from the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA). Additional funding was provided by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program Agriculture for Nutrition and Health. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
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 | 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? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Observer article: A deadly disease could travel at jet speed around the world. How do we stop it in time? http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/12/deadly-disease-modern-global-epidemic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | AHEAD Update April/May/June 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | news items on launch of Drivers of Disease Consortium and the Zoonoses - From Panic to Planning briefing in AHEAD newsletter Articles on Launcyhes of Drivers of Disease consortium and of the Zoonoses - From Panic to Planning briefing in this newsletter frmo AHEAD (Animal and Human Health for the Environment and Development) |
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: mapping how a deadly disease might spread in the UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Online feature Interview with Drivers of Disease partners on their work on African Horse sickness the findings of which are relevant to the diseases studied in the Drivers of Disease Consortium. Article produced for the University of Cambridge website http://www.cam.ac. |
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 | Bat infection dynamics talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | talk at a CNRS Jacques-Monod conference Talk on bat infection dynamics aspect of Drivers of Disease work at: http://www.mivegec.ird.fr/monod/CJM_Regoes_en.htm |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
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 | Biodiversity and Human Disease |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk at the reducing Risks - Ecosystems, Land Use and Human Well-being workshop, Plas Tan y Bwlch, Wales |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
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 | Disease Macroecology |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk at the What is Macroecology symposium in London, 20th June 2012. Talk at the What is Macroecology symposium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Dislike of multidisciplinary work 'limits development' |
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 | |
Results and Impact | Delia Grace is quoted in a SciDev.Net article reporting on a discussion at the Agricultural Research for Development: Innovations and Incentives conference in Sweden. Delia Grace quoted in article on multidisciplinary working. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
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 | Ecosystems and zoonotic disease in Africa |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | All Party Parliamentary Group All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Development & the Environment MEETING TITLE: How Ecosystem Services are tackling climate change and alleviating poverty The APPG for International Development & the Environment The APPG for Internation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
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 | Fighting the fly: Drivers of disease in the Zambezi valley |
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 | |
Results and Impact | Ian Scoones writes in The Zimbabwean on the relationships between the testse fly, livestock, wildlife and people and the potentially dangerous consequences. The same article was carried on his blog Zimbabweland. Same article printed in The Zimbabwean as appeared on Ian Scoones' own blogsite Zimbabweland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
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 | Fruit bats harbour more deadly viruses |
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 | |
Results and Impact | BBC coverage: Fruit bats harbour more deadly viruses http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25003792 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
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 | Human health risks at the animal-human interface: As Asia's populations and incomes grow, so do disease risks |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation made by staff of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) at the Asia Regional Livestock Policy Forum held in Bangkok last year (16-17 Aug 2012) |
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 | Joined up thinking into zoonoses gets underway |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | newsletter Ist in series of consortium newsletters |
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 | Lassa Fever: A Conservation Medicine Perspective |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | "Lassa Fever: A Conservation Medicine Perspective". Virginia Commonwealth University, October 2, 2012. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Lassa fever: why there are more public health questions than answers |
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 | |
Results and Impact | Guardian Development Article http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development-professionals-network/2013/feb/21/lassa-fever-sierra-leone |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Learning from Ecohealth Innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Consortium newsletter newsletter updating people on mailing list with Consortuim updates etc http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=df0b28f6b491641b14e76c0cc&id=9332ba02d4&e=fc0a70a096 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Learning from Ecohealth Innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Consortium newsletter third Consortuim newsletter updating subscribers with the work of the Consortium |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Lives at risk - the tsetse-livelihoods nexus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Seminar Preliminary findings of research presented in a seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Livestock in the city: separating fact from fiction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | online article article in New agriculturist http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=2990 relevant to Drivers of Disease research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Macroecology of human infectious disease |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk at Dept of Geography, Oxford |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Macroecology of human infectious disease |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk given at UCL Dept of Anthropology Talk at UCL Dept of Anthropology |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Noah's Ark: Jungle Reservoirs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public talk given at the Wellcome Collection |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | On the Zoonose |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | article in The Economist Delia Grace cited in article in The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/international/21594347-where-demand-meat-grows-so-does-risk-outbreak-zoonose |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | One Health Approaches to the Emerging Endemic Zoonoses (Africa) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Talk at College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida Talk on One Health to the veterinary faculty at the University of Florida |
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 | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Huffington Post Blog |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Pandemic Flu Controversies: What have we learned? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | newsletter from the workshop of the same name |
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 | Research Update Situation Analysis Sierra Leone |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Research Update Situation Analysis Sierra Leone Research update briefing for country case studies |
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 | Tackling animal diseases to protect human health |
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 | |
Results and Impact | James Wood talks about the Drivers of Disease consortium in this EMBO Reports Science & Society article which considers the inextricable link between human, animal and ecosystem health. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
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 Next Global Killer |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | BBC Radio 4 science documentary presented by Alok Jha Kate Jones interviewed about her work on bats and disease for R4 science documentary. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03jb36z |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
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 | Warning Sounded on Urban Agriculture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | video article on Al Jazeera website |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Warning sounded on urban farming |
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 | |
Results and Impact | Research in Kenya suggests humans and animals living in close contact could be a cause of new diseases. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
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 |
Description | Zoonoses - From Panic to Planning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | newsletter Second in series of consortium newsletters |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Zoonoses: The Lethal Gifts of Livestock |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | ILRI Livestock Live Seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |