Precision global health: a roadmap for augmented action

Sheath, Danny; Castañeda, Rafael Luis Ruiz De; Bempong, Nefti-Eboni; Raviglione, Mario C.; Machalaba, Catherine; Pepper, M.; Vayena, Effy; Ray, Nicolas; Wernli, Didier; Escher, Gérard; Grey, François; Elger, Bernice Simone; Helbing, Dirk; Kleineberg, Kaj-Kolja; Beran, David; Miranda, J. Jaime; Huffman, Mark D.; Hersch, Fred; Andayi, Fred; Thumbi, Samuel M.; D’Acremont, Valérie; Hartley, Mary-Anne; Zinsstag, Jakob; Larus, James R.; Martínez, María Rodríguez; Guérin, Philippe J; Merson, Laura; Ngyuen, Vinh-Kim; Rühli, Frank J; Geissbühler, Antoine; Salathé, Marcel; Bolon, Isabelle; Boehme, Catharina; Berkley, Seth; Valleron, Alain‐Jacques; Keiser, Olivia; Kaiser, Laurent; Eckerle, Isabella; Utzinger, Jürg; Flahault, Antoine

doi:10.21037/jphe.2020.01.01

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“…When data on spatial snakebite variation, spatial distributions of venomous snakes, and antivenom availability are more widely available, the modelling of vulnerable population coupled to accessibility modelling can be a game changer for planning and optimizing SBE-related care in affected countries. This also fits the scope of the “precision global health” ( Flahault et al, 2020 ; Sheath et al, 2020 ) agenda that seeks, notably, to enhance effective resource allocation through use of high-resolution spatio-temporal data and innovative digital tools.…”

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Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses – Recent advances and future direction

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Venomous snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that annually leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths or long-term physical and mental ailments across the developing world. Insufficient data on spatial variation in snakebite risk, incidence, human vulnerability, and accessibility of medical treatment contribute substantially to ineffective on-ground management. There is an urgent need to collect data, fill knowledge gaps and address on-ground management problems. The use of novel, and transdisciplinary approaches that take advantage of recent advances in spatio-temporal models, ‘big data’, high performance computing, and fine-scale spatial information can add value to snakebite management by strategically improving our understanding and mitigation capacity of snakebite. We review the background and recent advances on the topic of snakebite related geospatial analyses and suggest avenues for priority research that will have practical on-ground applications for snakebite management and mitigation. These include streamlined, targeted data collection on snake distributions, snakebites, envenomings, venom composition, health infrastructure, and antivenom accessibility along with fine-scale models of spatio-temporal variation in snakebite risk and incidence, intraspecific venom variation, and environmental change modifying human exposure. These measures could improve and ‘future-proof’ antivenom production methods, antivenom distribution and stockpiling systems, and human-wildlife conflict management practices, while simultaneously feeding into research on venom evolution, snake taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, and conservation.

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“…The problem here is that in many cases data on health and disease in areas of the world such as the Global South are just not available and initiatives to increase local data collection are scarce. 11 More recently, a number of project in global health have tried to implement an approach presented as "precision global health" (Flahault et al 2020;Sheath et al 2020). The goal of these project can be seen as precisely tapping into the issues discussed in this section -the lack of local and indigenous data on population healththrough the collection of health data from digital devices such as smartphones, wearables, trackers.…”

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Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology

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2023

Integrative Approaches in Environmental Health and Exposome Research

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“…Thirdly, in COVID-19 the initial reports connected the causal virus, SARS-CoV-2, to a wildlife market in Wuhan (Haider et al, 2020a;Sheath et al, 2020). This led to some wildlife species -such as snakes, pangolins, and bats -being singled out as possible source or intermediate hosts of the virus.…”

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Situation analysis on the roles and risks of wildlife in the emergence of human infectious diseases

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2022

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This situation analysis presents a thorough, evidence-based examination of the relationship between wildlife and zoonosis, wildlife and emerging human pathogens and associated diseases, their origins, drivers, and risk factors. There is considerable divergence of opinion around the subject both within and outside the biodiversity conservation community and given the ontological challenges and highly different perspectives, contradictory narrative is unsurprising. Context is all-important and to clarify this in the analysis, the evidence of human diseases coming from wildlife is compared to diseases emerging from domestic animals and humans themselves, to provide context and proportions of the relative risk. The report highlights key knowledge, and provides perspective on where research, policy, interventions, and capacity building are needed to reduce risks of zoonoses and emergent animal-origin human diseases globally.

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Precision global health: a roadmap for augmented action

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Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses – Recent advances and future direction

Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses – Recent advances and future direction

Which Integration for Health? Comparing Integrative Approaches for Epidemiology

Situation analysis on the roles and risks of wildlife in the emergence of human infectious diseases

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