Co-production of knowledge as part of a OneHealth approach to better control zoonotic diseases
2022
Asaaga, Festus, A | Young, Juliette, C | Srinivas, Prashanth, N | Seshadri, Tanya | Oommen, Meera, A | Rahman, Mujeeb | Kiran, Shivani, K | Kasabi, Gudadappa, S | Narayanaswamy, Darshan | Schäfer, Stefanie, M | Burthe, Sarah, J | August, Tom | Logie, Mark | Chanda, Mudassar, M | Hoti, Subhash, L | Vanak, Abi, T | Purse, Bethan, V | Agroécologie [Dijon] ; Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Dijon ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | Funding: The MonkeyFeverRisk project that led to these results is supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund and funded by the MRC, AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC and NERC [grant numbers MR/P024335/1 and MR/P024335/2], awarded to BVP, SLH, MVM, ATV, MMC, MAO, JCY, PNS, SJB and GK. PNS received support from the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Fellowship number IA/CPHI.16/1/502648. Additional support was provided to BVP and FAA from the NERC SUNRISE project [grant number NE/R000131/1]. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. There is increased global and national attention on the need for effective strategies to control zoonotic diseases. Quick, effective action is, however, hampered by poor evidence-bases and limited coordination between stakeholders from relevant sectors such as public and animal health, wildlife and forestry sectors at different scales, who may not usually work together. The OneHealth approach recognises the value of cross-sectoral evaluation of human, animal and environmental health questions in an integrated, holistic and transdisciplinary manner to reduce disease impacts and/or mitigate risks. Co-production of knowledge is also widely advocated to improve the quality and acceptability of decision-making across sectors and may be particularly important when it comes to zoonoses. This paper brings together OneHealth and knowledge co-production and reflects on lessons learned for future OneHealth co-production processes by describing a process implemented to understand spill-over and identify disease control and mitigation strategies for a zoonotic disease in Southern India (Kyasanur Forest Disease). The coproduction process aimed to develop a joint decision-support tool with stakeholders, and we complemented our approach with a simple retrospective theory of change on researcher expectations of the system-level outcomes of the co-production process. Our results highlight that while co-production in OneHealth is a difficult and resource intensive process, requiring regular iterative adjustments and flexibility, the beneficial outcomes justify its adoption. A key future aim should be to improve and evaluate the degree of inter-sectoral collaboration required to achieve the aims of OneHealth. We conclude by providing guidelines based on our experience to help funders and decision-makers support future co-production processes.
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