Livestock Population Health

Within this thematic area, ILRI  works to improve livestock production through improved animal health, reducing livestock disease impacts on livelihoods, food security, climate change, and animal welfare, by providing solutions at the herd-level, and informing control programmes at the national and international level.

Our Livestock Population Health works to improve livelihoods and food security through : ​

• Innovative approaches to improve animal health and production, welfare and environments​
• Expanding the delivery of animal health services​
• Enhancing the understanding, measurement and management of livestock disease burden​
• Developing safer livestock practices around medicine usage, sanitation, biosecurity and food safety​
• Development, evaluation and guidance of animal health programmes, strategies and policies (regional and national)​

Our animal health research has strong synergies with One Health (including food safety, antimicrobial resistance, pathogen emergence…) with many One Health challenges, and their solutions, concerning animal health and how we manage it.