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Theme 1 . Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases (EZD)
EZD Projects
African institutions initiative (from 2009 for five years) A £6.1 million capacity-building programme funded by the Wellcome Trust to support the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS, see below) to accelerate capacity strengthening of southern African institutions for surveillance and study of infectious diseases across the human and animal health sectors in Africa. LIDC is coordinating the contributions of its Colleges, particularly LSHTM and RVC in teaching and research. It will help to develop Africa-based One Health training packages for MSc courses and Continuing Professional Development in Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. Colleges will host and support PhD and Postdoctoral research projects on target disease systems, including viral hemorrhagic fevers, plague, foot and mouth disease, RiftValley fever and tuberculosis, providing joint supervision of southern African scientists.
Infectious disease preparedness analysis and resource mapping across human and animal health sectors in Southern Africa (from 2008 for two years) A $399,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (from 2008 for two years) to map health system resources and the governance arrangements that are associated with their mobilisation in response to epidemic and emerging infectious diseases in the human and animal sectors in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project involves SACIDS (see below), LSHTM, RVC and the International Health Policy Programme at Mahidol University in Thailand. The research will extend Rockefeller-funded research in South East Asia to map resources in response to pandemic influenza scenarios in the human health system in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. This proposed research will extend analysis beyond the human public health system to the animal sector in line with ‘One Health’, facilitate South-South knowledge and skills sharing (between SE Asia and Africa), and produce policy and practice-relevant research findings. Avian influenza and potential human pandemic influenza will be the disease ‘lens’ through which the research will be focused.
Enhancing disease surveillance at point of outbreak/care in the animal and human health sectors through the application of ICT mobile technology (from 2009 for 30 months) A £700,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to explore the opportunities provided by mobile technologies to enhance infectious disease surveillance in the human and animal health sectors in East Africa. The project involves SACIDS, LIDC (RVC, LSHTM and IoE), Mahidol University Bangkok and the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) in evaluating technology for communicating disease risks and related purposes.
EZD Collaborations
SACIDS (Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance) was established in 2007 “To harness innovation in science and technology in order to improve Southern Africa’s capacity (including human, financial and physical) to detect, identify and monitor infectious diseases of humans, animals, plants and their interactions in order to better manage the risk posed by them”. SACIDS involves five collaborating countries and is headquartered at Sokoine University of Agricultura, Tanzania. SACIDS works in “smart partnership” with LIDC. LIDC (presently LSHTM, RVC and IoE) provide research, research management and training support to SACIDS members, which include Sokoine University, University of Zambia , Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, University of Kinshasha, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, NIMR Dar es Salaam, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort Veterinary Laboratory, NICD South Africa, Stellenbosch University, ILRI Kenya.
EZD Workshops
LIDC/LSE Seminar series – 'Social Science of Infectious Diseases'
In 2008 LIDC and the London School of Economics jointly established a series of monthly evening seminars to contribute to our understanding of the social sciences of infectious diseases, as well as to illustrate how the social sciences can inform a broader public health response to infectious diseases in the future. A new series is planned to start in January 2009.
Bloomsbury PhD Studentships
These three-year studentships are jointly supervised by supervisors from at least two different Bloomsbury Colleges Current studentships relevant to EZD are:
African institutions initiative (from 2009 for five years) A £6.1 million capacity-building programme funded by the Wellcome Trust to support the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS, see below) to accelerate capacity strengthening of southern African institutions for surveillance and study of infectious diseases across the human and animal health sectors in Africa. LIDC is coordinating the contributions of its Colleges, particularly LSHTM and RVC in teaching and research. It will help to develop Africa-based One Health training packages for MSc courses and Continuing Professional Development in Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. Colleges will host and support PhD and Postdoctoral research projects on target disease systems, including viral hemorrhagic fevers, plague, foot and mouth disease, RiftValley fever and tuberculosis, providing joint supervision of southern African scientists.
Infectious disease preparedness analysis and resource mapping across human and animal health sectors in Southern Africa (from 2008 for two years) A $399,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (from 2008 for two years) to map health system resources and the governance arrangements that are associated with their mobilisation in response to epidemic and emerging infectious diseases in the human and animal sectors in Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project involves SACIDS (see below), LSHTM, RVC and the International Health Policy Programme at Mahidol University in Thailand. The research will extend Rockefeller-funded research in South East Asia to map resources in response to pandemic influenza scenarios in the human health system in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. This proposed research will extend analysis beyond the human public health system to the animal sector in line with ‘One Health’, facilitate South-South knowledge and skills sharing (between SE Asia and Africa), and produce policy and practice-relevant research findings. Avian influenza and potential human pandemic influenza will be the disease ‘lens’ through which the research will be focused.
Enhancing disease surveillance at point of outbreak/care in the animal and human health sectors through the application of ICT mobile technology (from 2009 for 30 months) A £700,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to explore the opportunities provided by mobile technologies to enhance infectious disease surveillance in the human and animal health sectors in East Africa. The project involves SACIDS, LIDC (RVC, LSHTM and IoE), Mahidol University Bangkok and the East African Integrated Disease Surveillance Network (EAIDSNet) in evaluating technology for communicating disease risks and related purposes.
EZD Collaborations
SACIDS (Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance) was established in 2007 “To harness innovation in science and technology in order to improve Southern Africa’s capacity (including human, financial and physical) to detect, identify and monitor infectious diseases of humans, animals, plants and their interactions in order to better manage the risk posed by them”. SACIDS involves five collaborating countries and is headquartered at Sokoine University of Agricultura, Tanzania. SACIDS works in “smart partnership” with LIDC. LIDC (presently LSHTM, RVC and IoE) provide research, research management and training support to SACIDS members, which include Sokoine University, University of Zambia , Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, University of Kinshasha, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, NIMR Dar es Salaam, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort Veterinary Laboratory, NICD South Africa, Stellenbosch University, ILRI Kenya.
EZD Workshops
- Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: Science and Policy, 17th June 2008
- Emerging and infectious diseases workgroup meeting, 10 Feb 2009
- 'One-health' research meeting, 30 Sept 2009
LIDC/LSE Seminar series – 'Social Science of Infectious Diseases'
In 2008 LIDC and the London School of Economics jointly established a series of monthly evening seminars to contribute to our understanding of the social sciences of infectious diseases, as well as to illustrate how the social sciences can inform a broader public health response to infectious diseases in the future. A new series is planned to start in January 2009.
Bloomsbury PhD Studentships
These three-year studentships are jointly supervised by supervisors from at least two different Bloomsbury Colleges Current studentships relevant to EZD are:
- Poultry movement networks in Vietnam and their impact on the spread and control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 infection - Guillaume Fournie, Supervisors Javier Guitian (RVC), Azra Ghani and Punam Mangtani (LSHTM)
- Rift Valley Fever: a mathematical and spatial modelling approach to understanding disease dynamics - Raphaelle Metras, Supervisors Dirk Pfeiffer (RVC) and Richard White (LSHTM)
- Assessing the role of structural drivers in the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a Tanzanian case study of the link between socio-economic indicators and prevalence patterns - Kevin Deane SOAS) Supervisors Deborah Johnston (SOAS) and Justin Parkhurst (LSHTM)
- Mobile learning for development: Participatory design of an open mobile knowledge exchange network for the detection, identification and monitoring (DIM) of infectious diseases Supervisors Niall Winters (IoE) and Nick Short (RVC)
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