A5050925011- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2019-2024
HR Wallingford
2021
University of Oxford
2019-2020
Abstract Background There is a strong policy impetus for the One Health cross-sectoral approach to address complex challenge of zoonotic diseases, particularly in low/lower middle income countries (LMICs). Yet implementation this LMIC contexts such as India has proven challenging, due partly relatively limited practical guidance and understanding on how foster sustain cross-sector collaborations. This study addresses gap by exploring facilitators barriers successful convergence between...
Forest-based communities manage many risks to health and socio-economic welfare including the increasing threat of emerging zoonoses that are expected disproportionately affect poor marginalised groups, further impair their precarious livelihoods, particularly in Low-and-Middle Income (LMIC) settings. Yet, there is a relative dearth empirical research on vulnerability adaptation pathways groups facing zoonoses. Drawing survey 229 households series key-informant interviews Western Ghats, we...
Smallholder farmer and tribal communities are often characterised as marginalised highly vulnerable to emerging zoonotic diseases due their relatively poor access healthcare, worse-off health outcomes, proximity sources of disease risks, social livelihood organisation. Yet, relevant timely information that could strengthen adaptive capacity remain challenging poorly in the empirical literature. This paper addresses this gap by exploring role shaping smallholder groups Kyasanur Forest Disease...
There is increased global and national attention on the need for effective strategies to control zoonotic diseases. Quick, action is, however, hampered by poor evidence-bases limited coordination between stakeholders from relevant sectors such as public animal health, wildlife forestry at different scales, who may not usually work together. The OneHealth approach recognises value of cross-sectoral evaluation human, environmental health questions in an integrated, holistic transdisciplinary...
The complexities of customary land tenure continue to dominate academic and policy debates on sustainable management particularly in the sub-Saharan African context. Central raging debate is idea harmonizing disparate statutory systems afford clarity, certainty safeguard security landholders. Towards this end, proponents have endorsed Customary Land Secretariats (CLSs) as an interface between traditional authorities agencies. Yet there relatively limited empirical evidence dynamics...
Land cover and land use have established effects on hazard exposure to vector-borne diseases. While our understanding of the proximate distant causes consequences decisions has evolved, focus landscape disease ecology remains dominant. We argue that governance, viewed through a system lens, affects tick-borne risk. Governance trajectories potentially shapes landscapes favourable ticks or increases contact with by structuring human-land interactions. illustrate role legacies, trade-offs in...
Abstract Increased imports of plants and timber through global trade networks provide frequent opportunities for the introduction novel plant pathogens that can cross‐over from commercial to natural environments, threatening native species ecosystem functioning. Prevention or management such outbreaks relies on a diversity cross‐sectoral stakeholders acting along invasion pathway. Yet, guidelines are often only produced small number stakeholders, missing consider ways control in other parts...
Background Climate change is widely recognised to threaten human health, wellbeing and livelihoods, including through its effects on the emergence, spread burdens of climate–and water-sensitive infectious diseases. However, scale mechanisms impacts are uncertain it unclear whether existing forecasting capacities will foster successful local-level adaptation planning, particularly in climate vulnerable regions developing countries. The purpose this scoping review was characterise map priority...
Despite the ongoing land administration reforms being implemented across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Ghana, as a viable pathway to achieve tenure security and greater efficiency in administration, subject of dispute resolution has received relatively less attention. Whereas customary institutions play central role (controlling ~80% all Ghana), they remain at fringes formal adjudicatory process. Recognising pivotal traditional development agents potential vehicles for promoting good...
Recent advances in mobile technologies, especially the utility payment space, are having an increasingly profound impact on our daily lives and offer advantageous services sectors. This paper examines prevalence patterns of customer uptake electronic water (EWP) system its implications for delivery Tema Metropolitan Area, Ghana. Data study comprised a survey 250 customers review 12-month use database from supply company. Results indicate that although were aware EWP’s existence, overall was...
Exposure to zoonotic diseases can trade-off against livelihood-critical activities, particularly for tropical forest-dependent communities. Inter-disciplinary ecosystem approaches are critical understanding this spillover since the ecological and socio-political processes that make people vulnerable jointly studied across degraded ecosystems. Moreover, One Health co-production of research tools with cross-sectoral stakeholders bridge gaps in knowledge disease management between sectors. The...
Despite the ongoing land administration reforms being implemented across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Ghana as viable pathway to achieve tenure security and greater efficiency in administration, subject of dispute resolution has received relatively less attention. Whereas customary institutions play a central role (controlling ~80% all Ghana), they remain at fringes formal adjudicatory process. Recognizing pivotal traditional development agents potential vehicles for promoting good...
Abstract Background Cross-sectoral collaborations as exemplified by the One Health approach, are widely endorsed pragmatic avenues for addressing zoonotic diseases, but operationalisation remain limited in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Complexities and competing interests agendas of key stakeholders underlying politico-administrative context can all shape outcomes collaborative arrangements. Evidence is building that organised complex political initiatives where different...
Abstract Background Zoonotic diseases disproportionately affect poor tropical communities. Transmission dynamics of zoonoses are complex, involving communities vector and animal hosts, with human behaviour ecosystem use altering exposure to infected vectors hosts. This complexity means that efforts manage prevent spillover often hampered by a ecological evidence base intervention strategies tend focus on humans (e.g. vaccination, preventative drug treatment). However, integrating...
Why do some zoonotic diseases receive priority from health policy decision-makers and planners whereas others little attention? By leveraging Shiffman Smith's political prioritisation framework, our paper advances a economy of disease focusing on four key components: the strength actors involved in prioritisation, power ideas they use to portray issue, contexts which operate, characteristics issue itself (e.g., overall burdens, severity, cost-effective interventions). These components afford...
Abstract Background: Smallholder farmer and tribal communities are often characterised as marginalised highly vulnerable to emerging zoonotic diseases due their relatively poor access healthcare, worse-off health outcomes, proximity sources of disease risks, social livelihood organisation. Yet, relevant timely information that could strengthen adaptive capacity remain challenging poorly in the empirical literature. This paper addresses this gap by exploring role shaping smallholder groups...