Practising co-production and interdisciplinarity: Challenges and implications for one health research

Barnett, Tony; Pfeiffer, Dirk U.; Hoque, Ahasanul; Giasuddin, M; Flora, Meerjady Sabrina; Biswas, Paritosh Kumar; Debnath, Nitish C.; Fournié, Guillaume

doi:10.1016/j.prevetmed.2020.104949

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“…Sustained, increased implementation of biosecurity will furthermore only be achieved if concerned stakeholders appreciate the benefits of the interventions and consider it a priority among all other necessary tasks to perform in the complex day-to-day realities of subsistence pig farming [ 116 , 164 ]. In this regard local people, researchers, governments and multinational organisations might have conflicting agendas regarding priority diseases to control or eradicate [ 162 , 165 ]. The research community, governments and multinational organisations tend to prioritise transboundary diseases with dramatic impact on trade and national economies such as ASF.…”

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“…Animals in subsistence farming systems in resource-poor settings on the other hand often suffer from constant subclinical infections of numerous endemic diseases as well as malnutrition with stunting and low productivity as consequences. Priorities of smallholder farmers are linked to their day-to-day reality, therefore favouring control of endemic disease as well as husbandry and feed improvements rather than eradicating transboundary diseases that might appear only at irregular intervals [ 111 , 162 , 165 , 166 ]. In this regard, we believe that the ability of biosecurity to prevent multiple diseases and thus improve the general herd health with one silver bullet is preferred compared to the limited impact of for example a univalent vaccine.…”

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With or without a Vaccine—A Review of Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Managing African Swine Fever in Resource-Constrained Smallholder Settings

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The spectacular recent spread of African swine fever (ASF) in Eastern Europe and Asia has been strongly associated, as it is in the endemic areas in Africa, with free-ranging pig populations and low-biosecurity backyard pig farming. Managing the disease in wild boar populations and in circumstances where the disease in domestic pigs is largely driven by poverty is particularly challenging and may remain so even in the presence of effective vaccines. The only option currently available to prevent ASF is strict biosecurity. Among small-scale pig farmers biosecurity measures are often considered unaffordable or impossible to implement. However, as outbreaks of ASF are also unaffordable, the adoption of basic biosecurity measures is imperative to achieve control and prevent losses. Biosecurity measures can be adapted to fit smallholder contexts, culture and costs. A longer-term approach that could prove valuable particularly for free-ranging pig populations would be exploitation of innate resistance to the virus, which is fully effective in wild African suids and has been observed in some domestic pig populations in areas of prolonged endemicity. We explore available options for preventing ASF in terms of feasibility, practicality and affordability among domestic pig populations that are at greatest risk of exposure to ASF.

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With or without a Vaccine—A Review of Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Managing African Swine Fever in Resource-Constrained Smallholder Settings

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“…A critical step in inter-disciplinary and cross-sectoral One Health collaborations lies in the way questions and issues are framed ( 10 , 13 ), especially when addressing complex inter-linkages such as the Health-Biodiversity-Agriculture nexus ( 52 ). Despite repeated early calls for closer collaboration, the medical and veterinary spheres ( 53 , 54 ), and the environmental ( 55 ) and social sciences ( 37 , 56 ), have struggled to establish strong, long-lasting collaborations grounded on a clear shared framework ( 10 , 57 ). One Health has been presented as an approach to address health threats at the “human-animal-environment interface”, also referred to as “human-animal-ecosystem interface” ( 34 , 58 ), with both formulations used interchangeably by the same operators, including the tripartite coalition of UN agencies spearheading the concept ( 59 , 60 ).…”

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“Health in” and “Health of” Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems

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The past two decades have seen an accumulation of theoretical and empirical evidence for the interlinkages between human health and well-being, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and agriculture. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the devastating impacts that an emerging pathogen, of animal origin, can have on human societies and economies. A number of scholars have called for the wider adoption of “One Health integrated approaches” to better prevent, and respond to, the threats of emerging zoonotic diseases. However, there are theoretical and practical challenges that have precluded the full development and practical implementation of this approach. Whilst integrated approaches to health are increasingly adopting a social-ecological system framework (SES), the lack of clarity in framing the key concept of resilience in health contexts remains a major barrier to its implementation by scientists and practitioners. We propose an operational framework, based on a transdisciplinary definition of Socio-Ecological System Health (SESH) that explicitly links health and ecosystem management with the resilience of SES, and the adaptive capacity of the actors and agents within SES, to prevent and cope with emerging health and environmental risks. We focus on agricultural transitions that play a critical role in disease emergence and biodiversity conservation, to illustrate the proposed participatory framework to frame and co-design SESH interventions. Finally, we highlight critical changes that are needed from researchers, policy makers and donors, in order to engage communities and other stakeholders involved in the management of their own health and that of the underpinning ecosystems.

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“…Although surveillance is most often associated with positive impacts (improvement of the prevention and management of health events), it can have negative repercussions for certain stakeholders (destruction of food products following the detection of health hazards, slaughtering of animals following the detection of certain diseases). This diversity of values, cultures, and interests that coexist within a surveillance system is even more prevalent in a One Health surveillance system where the variety of stakeholders is broader (14). This results in the coexistence of a multiple of representations of the current surveillance system and of changes to improve it, which restrains collective action toward the implementation of One Health surveillance (15,16).…”

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Engaging Stakeholders in the Design of One Health Surveillance Systems: A Participatory Approach

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Many One Health surveillance systems have proven difficult to enforce and sustain, mainly because of the difficulty of implementing and upholding collaborative efforts for surveillance activities across stakeholders with different values, cultures and interests. We hypothesize that only the early engagement of stakeholders in the development of a One Health surveillance system can create an environment conducive to the emergence of collaborative solutions that are acceptable, accepted and therefore implemented in sustainable manner. To this end, we have designed a socio-technical framework to help stakeholders develop a common vision of their desired surveillance system and to forge the innovation pathway toward it. We implemented the framework in two case studies: the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam and that of Salmonella in France. The socio-technical framework is a participatory and iterative process that consists of four distinct steps implemented during a workshop series: (i) definition of the problem to be addressed, (ii) co-construction of a common representation of the current system, (iii) co-construction of the desired surveillance system, (iv) identification of changes and actions required to progress from the current situation to the desired situation. In both case studies, the process allowed surveillance stakeholders with different professional cultures and expectations regarding One Health surveillance to gain mutual understanding and to reconcile their different perspectives to design the pathway toward their common vision of a desired surveillance system. While the proposed framework is structured around four essential steps, its application can be tailored to the context. Workshop facilitation and representativeness of participants are key for the success of the process. While our approach lays the foundation for the further implementation of the desired One Health surveillance system, it provides no guarantee that the proposed actions will actually be implemented and bring about the required changes. The engagement of stakeholders in a participatory process must be sustained in order to ensure the implementation of co-constructed solutions and evaluate their effectiveness and impacts.

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Practising co-production and interdisciplinarity: Challenges and implications for one health research

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

With or without a Vaccine—A Review of Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Managing African Swine Fever in Resource-Constrained Smallholder Settings

With or without a Vaccine—A Review of Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Managing African Swine Fever in Resource-Constrained Smallholder Settings

“Health in” and “Health of” Social-Ecological Systems: A Practical Framework for the Management of Healthy and Resilient Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems

Engaging Stakeholders in the Design of One Health Surveillance Systems: A Participatory Approach

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