one health networks - why should we bother?
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One Health Networks – why should we bother?
Victor Galaz, Ian Scoones, Melissa Leach, Christian Stein, and DDDAC case study teams
”One Health” Policy
Integrated multidisciplinary,
or
”northern-dominated, top-down, control and surveillanceorientated approach”?
Interviews
Policy documents
”One Health” Policy
Narratives
* ’integration’
* ‘risk, surveillance and outbreak’
* ‘cost-benefit economics’
* ’local understandings, structuraldrivers, and the diverse framings’
How about ”One Health” Science?
The way scientists frame complexsocietal problems has clear impactson policy debates and responses
Zika – what sort of problem is it?
Disease control?
Poverty?
Environmental?
The Lancet, March 5th, 2016
So what about ’One Health’ science?WoS articles
N= 157 articles
Galaz, Stein, Scoones, et al. (in prep)Geographical distribution of publications based on the geographical affiliation ofauthors in the field of “One Health”, over the period 2007-2014 .
Galaz, Stein, Scoones, et al. in prep
Why is this a problem?
Limited scientific perspectives?
Ignoring local knowledge and complexities?
But also…
+ High CO2 world, biodiversity loss, increased global connectivity, etc
Biomes -> Anthromes
?
More
detail?
Limited
predictibility
Novel ecosystemsNovel disease
risks?
Scenarios
http://www.diseasescenarios.org/
Business as usual
Abrupt climate change
Rapid agricultural development
’One Health’
+
Suprise and shocks
Scenarios
http://www.diseasescenarios.org/
In conclusion…
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This work, Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium, NERC project numberNE-J001570-1, was funded with support from the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)programme. The ESPA programme is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), theEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
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