Tags: epidemiology

ILRI News on epidemiology

03 Nov 2020

New One Health Centre in Africa joins global efforts to prevent future pandemics

Annett Günther, the German ambassador to Kenya, and Jimmy Smith, ILRI’s director general, at the inauguration of the One Health Centre in Africa (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). This post was developed by Ekta Patel and Geoffrey Njenga, and edited by Paul Karaimu . This year the global One Health...

ILRI clippings

10 Sep 2020

The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository

Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project, first attempt to study the complete pathogen landscape of any species, has generated a unique dataset and biorepository for researchers of infectious diseases of cattle in East Africa. ‘The Infectious...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

ILRI News

01 Sep 2020

Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do

Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit). In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural transformation: Animal health ), Delia Grace , a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

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Publications on epidemiology

Report

Published2021

Community-based approach for the control of gastrointestinal parasites under smallholder sheep farming systems

Training Material

Published2020

Training facilitator guide on animal health management

Training Material

Published2020

Training facilitator guide on animal reproduction and breeding

Report

Published2021

Epidemiology and Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants in East and West Africa (ECo-PPR)―Building capacity of African researchers on epidemiology and socio-economic impacts of PPR: ECo-PPR toolbox training report

Report

Published2020

Participatory epidemiology and gender analysis to address livestock disease constraints in Son La Province, Vietnam

Journal Article

Published2021

Correction to: Importance of livestock diseases identified using participatory epidemiology in the highlands of Ethiopia

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ILRI Projects on epidemiology

Jan 2018Dec 2021

Metropolitan mosquitoes: Understanding urban livestock keeping and vector-borne disease in growing tropical cities

With over half of the global population living in urban areas, cities are not only crowded with people but also with livestock as well as disease vectors like rodents and mosquitoes. Thus, cities may serve as a melting pot for emerging infectious diseases, including zoonotic and vector-borne...

Jun 2019May 2022

Epidemiology and control of peste des petits ruminants in East and West Africa

The global strategy for the control and eradication of peste des petits ruminants has been endorsed by more than 200 countries with the vision of a world free of the disease by 2030. This project supports ongoing global control and eradication efforts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of...