This project seeks to develop new ways of thinking about the risk factors for bird flu (avian influenza), a disease which causes devastating losses for farmers and also has pandemic potential.
Working in Bangladesh, Vietnam and UK, partners in the project will develop a transdisciplinary collaborative modelling approach to enable a better understanding of the biological, social, economic and ecological systems from which risks for the disease might develop and spread. The ZIP project aims to address the criticism that the One Health approach has been insufficiently accommodating of non-human health perspectives, such as the economic and social constraints within which livestock production takes place. It will build on earlier work of IDS and research collaborations, such as the GCRF One Health Poultry Hub, Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and the Myanmar Pig Partnership that applied interdisciplinary collaborative modelling and systems thinking approaches to diseases that spread from animals to people (zoonoses).
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