Unpacking transdisciplinary research (the REALLY hard science)

Posted on 22 Mar 2016 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

The following excerpt is the beginning of a candid and thoughtful article by Ian Scoones, of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), at Sussex University, about an international symposium, One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing, that took place at the Zoological Society of London last week (17–18 Mar 2016). Continue reading →

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Pathogen ecologies and human interventions: The natural and unnatural histories of zoonotic diseases

Posted on 2 Dec 2012 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

Three diapered goats in the boot of a car in Bamako, Mali (photo on Flickr by Romel Jacinto/37 °C). This week, the Lancet publishes a series of three papers on diseases that are ‘zoonotic’, that is, infections shared by people and other animals. As William Keresh of EcoHealth Alliance (New York) and his colleagues explain in … Continue reading →

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Draconian bans on urban livestock in developing countries ‘not the answer’–Guardian on ILRI report

Posted on 15 Oct 2012 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

Customers at a milk bar in Ndumbuini in Kabete, Nairobi (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). Mark Tran in the Guardian‘s Poverty Matters Blog warns us this week not to keep chickens under our beds. On the other hand, he infers, chicken bought on the street in poor countries may be safer to eat than that from … Continue reading →

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‘Zoonoses’–diseases that pass from animals to humans–are again making headlines

Posted on 26 Sep 2012 by Susan MacMillan • Leave a comment

An initiative called the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium, which is hosted by the UK’s STEPS Centre, at the Institute of Development Studies, in Brighton, issued a news release today regarding the science and poverty implications of transmissions of animal-to-human diseases. This comes upon reports by UK officials this week of a the … Continue reading →

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Animal-to-human diseases spreading with environmental changes–ILRI’s Delia Grace in The Guardian

Posted on 31 Jul 2012 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

Villagers watch on as a team restrains a small pig for blood sampling in Luang Prabang, Laos (photo credit: ILRI/Kate Blaszak). Delia Grace, an Irish veterinary epidemiologist and public health expert at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), says shifts in forest cover, agricultural practices, mining and reservoirs are thought to be affecting the transmission … Continue reading →

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New consortium to investigate environmental changes spreading diseases between animals and people in Africa

Posted on 21 Mar 2012 by Susan MacMillan • 1 Comment

Malawi crop-and-livestock farmer (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). One of the drivers of disease in Africa, a continent with a particularly heavy disease burden, are environmental changes that help to spread infectious pathogens between animals (both wild and domestic) and people. That is why the start of a new research program, in which the International Livestock … Continue reading →

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