Comments on: Zoonoses and Epidemiology Within Animal Biosciences

By: Susan MacMillan

Susan MacMillan — Thu, 14 May 2015 14:14:26 +0000

Another project at ILRI particularly good at communications—even has a Twitter handle used regularly!. We look forward to helping augment interesting stories for the non-scientific reader emanating from these projects and their ‘pathogen hunters’. 🙂

By: Polly Ericksen

Polly Ericksen — Thu, 14 May 2015 08:04:56 +0000

Lovely presentation: would have liked to see LSE mentioned as a partner (although I know we already are,thanks to Tim) because system dynamics and system evolution are so important to your work and OURS!

Maybe we should have a 2 hour idea sharing session??

By: ericfevre

ericfevre — Thu, 14 May 2015 07:40:38 +0000

In reply to Stanly Tebug. I like to think that these issues have been taken in to account. In Kenya, the Government, through the Zoonotic Disease Unit (see zdukenya.org) is a core policy and science partner. We work very closely with them, and they have been involved in designing some of our research questions to make them applicable and useful to them (particularly o the ZooLinK programme which is in fact directly participating in the process of decentralising their activities to the Counties in Kenya). We also communicate back with communities directly - that is certainly important, but the policy audience is more the target in the first instance.

By: ericfevre

ericfevre — Thu, 14 May 2015 07:36:58 +0000

In reply to Hung Nguyen-Viet. 90% of our funding is bilateral. Expanding this in to SE Asia makes a lot of sense, and would be a long term plan; we have to convince bilateral funders though.

By: ericfevre

ericfevre — Thu, 14 May 2015 07:35:40 +0000

A second version of this talk was uploaded to fix the sound issue in the last slides – do please listen again

By: Hung Nguyen-Viet

Hung Nguyen-Viet — Wed, 13 May 2015 12:28:20 +0000

Hello Eric, impressive group, I did not know that your group is that big!
As you are a joint appointee with Liverpool, what are the portion (project, funding) of your work from ILRI and from Liverpool? Do you have any plan to expand your work to SE Asia?

By: Isabelle Baltenweck

Isabelle Baltenweck — Wed, 13 May 2015 08:05:14 +0000

could you send the last slide.. we’re unable to read about potential for collaboration!
And 1 question- could you expand on the socio economic work you conduct? thanks

By: Nils Teufel

Nils Teufel — Wed, 13 May 2015 06:50:59 +0000

Delia & Nils:
Only 1 second for collaboration opportunities?
Other programmes and CRPs within ILRI could offer links between up-stream research and community behaviour change, but this would need some effort in translating outputs. National policy-makers may be a more appropriate target for some of the messages.
This and other presentations raise the question whether the structure of health research within ILRI could be more rationally organised.
How would you suggest that the value chain and other socio-economic aspects of the research could be linked to ILRI’s own expertise in these fields?

By: Stanly Tebug

Stanly Tebug — Tue, 12 May 2015 17:50:53 +0000

Hi Eric,
Thanks for the presentation. I have one concern about how these results get back to the local committees or how this work is linked to health priorities of the countries involved. Many studies involving rural communities and even health personnel show low knowledge of zoonotic diseases. I feel that we would achieve more by fine-tuning research communication strategies, if this was not taken into account.