Power, participation and their problems: A consideration of power dynamics in the use of participatory epidemiology for one health and zoonoses research

Ebata, Ayako; Hodge, Catherine; Braam, Dorien; Waldman, Linda; Sharp, Joanne; MacGregor, Hayley; Moore, Henrietta L.

doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.104940

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“…I propose that local knowledge is also a useful source of information about potential EIDs that are unknown to biomedicine. Local knowledge can be a problematic source of information, both ethically (Ebata et al, 2020) and in terms of its relevance to scientists. However, it likely contains relevant information about human diseases, animal diseases, and zoonoses that has not yet been empirically documented.…”

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Using local knowledge in emerging infectious disease research

Gaddy

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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Using local knowledge in emerging infectious disease research

Gaddy

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Policy makers designing strategies to manage risk of infectious disease and its spread will benefit from a participatory process with rural communities to identify the countervailing forces that prevent them from adhering to health advice. Participatory epidemiology (PE) is one such approach for engaging local communities in project planning and design to identify appropriate methods of surveillance and containment that suit any give context (Alders et al, 2020;Ebata et al, 2020). Methods of PE such as maps, calendars, interviews and focus groups can be used to gather data that is sensitive to social and power dynamics within communities but also between communities and researchers or political actors so that strategies designed reflect differing vulnerabilities (Ebata et al, 2020).…”

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“…Participatory epidemiology (PE) is one such approach for engaging local communities in project planning and design to identify appropriate methods of surveillance and containment that suit any give context (Alders et al, 2020;Ebata et al, 2020). Methods of PE such as maps, calendars, interviews and focus groups can be used to gather data that is sensitive to social and power dynamics within communities but also between communities and researchers or political actors so that strategies designed reflect differing vulnerabilities (Ebata et al, 2020). PE enables local knowledge of diseases and practices to be incorporated into policy (Alders et al, 2020) but also people's knowledge of local ecologies and how changes in these are leading to changes in the disease dynamics they are familiar with.…”

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EIDs and the Intersectional Health/Livelihoods Paradox in the Rural Global South

Gomersall¹

2022

JSD

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This article presents the framework of the intersectional health/livelihoods paradox to analyse how political economic processes incur land use change to create vulnerability to infectious disease, but that in contending with these risks rural people negotiate conflicts with livelihoods. The conflicts and trade-offs people make in deliberating over health and livelihood outcomes because of ecological degradation are distributed unevenly through lines of social difference, such as gender and class. While the health/livelihoods paradox is evident within contexts of vulnerability to infectious disease, it is poignant when considering the impacts of interventions and containment strategies to control outbreaks in rural settings. Despite considerable attention on the urban context of disease surveillance, spread and containment due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this article refocuses analysis of the impacts of emerging infectious disease (EID) in rural contexts. The article shifts attention away from analysis of the problematic practices of rural households that undertake livelihood activities such as harvesting of wildlife for consumption, to a nexus between land use change, ecologies, livelihoods and health. The literature is fragmented in terms of the landscapes explored, developmental processes, species dynamics, diseases and social contexts. Therefore, this article presents a framework that enables complex dynamics such as these, that lead people to make compromises between competing health and livelihood outcomes to be examined.

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“…We need to urgently invest more in interdisciplinary research including different disciplines of social sciences to find new ways to promote practices that will save livelihoods and economies. Interdisciplinary research, cross‐cultural dialogue and participatory methods have been suggested as approaches that facilitate understanding and embracing of smallholders’ perspectives in research (Barnett et al., 2020; Ebata, Hodge, et al., 2020; Tasker, 2020). Behavioural science offers ASF prevention and control actors the opportunity to investigate drivers of risky behaviours, identify barriers to the adoption of risk‐reductive measures and design and test interventions.…”

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Exploring the hurdles that remain for control of African swine fever in smallholder farming settings

Chenais

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Ebata

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Transbounding Emerging Dis

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To honour the 100 years anniversary of the first publication about African swine fever (ASF) a webinar with a particular focus on disease control in the smallholder sector was organized. This article is based on the webinar, summarizing the early history of ASF research, reflecting on the current global disease situation and bringing forward some suggestions that could contribute towards achieving control of ASF.The first description of ASF by R. Eustace Montgomery in 1921 laid the foundations for what we know about the disease today. Subsequent research confirmed its association with warthogs and soft ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex. During the latter half of the 21st century, exponential growth of pig production in Africa has led to a change in the ASF-epidemiology pattern. It is now dominated by a cycle involving domestic pigs and pork with virus spread driven by people. In 2007, a global ASF epidemic started, reaching large parts of Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Europe, this epidemic has primarily affected wild boar. In Asia, wild boar, smallholders and industrialized pig farms have been affected with impact on local, national and international pig value chains. Globally and historically, domestic pigs in smallholder settings are most frequently affected and the main driver of ASF virus transmission. Awaiting a safe and efficacious vaccine, we need to continue focus on other measures, such as biosecurity, for controlling the disease. However, smallholders face specific challenges linked to poverty and other structural factors in implementing biosecurity measures that can prevent spread. Improving biosecurity in the smallholder sector thus remains an important tool for preventing and controlling ASF. In this regard, interdisciplinary research can help to find new ways to promote safe practices, facilitate understanding and embrace smallholders' perspectives, engage stakeholders and adjust prevention and control policies to improve implementation.

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Power, participation and their problems: A consideration of power dynamics in the use of participatory epidemiology for one health and zoonoses research

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Using local knowledge in emerging infectious disease research

Using local knowledge in emerging infectious disease research

EIDs and the Intersectional Health/Livelihoods Paradox in the Rural Global South

Exploring the hurdles that remain for control of African swine fever in smallholder farming settings

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