Dr Syed Abbas is a physician and public health researcher with more than 10 years’ experience of working on zoonotic diseases policies in South Asia.
He is interested in understanding the dynamics involved in multisector collaborations, both in research and practice. He has worked in both our India case states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. He is a postdoctoral researcher at IDS.
In response to the 2022 multi-country Mpox outbreak, a six-month ESRC-funded rapid research collaboration between IDS and the University of Ibadan focused on Nigeria: the country with the highest number of recorded Mpox cases in...
In May 2022, concern was growing in Geneva about the appearance in Europe of a known zoonotic disease considered endemic to West Africa, within networks of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). A year later, on 11 May 2023, the Public Health Emergency of International...
12 May 2023
This One Health Day, we talk about how the reality of disciplines and sectors working together in holistic harmony remains elusive despite a new definition of One Health and ever-greater buy-in for the approach. This blog focuses on the ZOODLE word ‘WHOLE’. PLAY ZOODLE A One...
3 November 2022
Why We Must Invest in Equitable, Ethical and Effective Approaches to Help Prepare for the Next Pandemic The cost of the Covid-19 pandemic remains unknown. Lives directly lost to the disease continue to mount, while related health, livelihood and wellbeing impacts are still being felt, and the...
10 March 2023
Given the health, social, and economic upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is understandable anxiety about another virus, monkeypox, quickly emerging in many countries around the world. In West and Central Africa, where the disease has been endemic for several decades, monkeypox...
16 June 2022
Given the health, social, and economic upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is understandable anxiety about another virus, monkeypox, quickly emerging in many countries around the world. In West and Central Africa, where the disease has been endemic for several decades, monkeypox...
14 June 2022
IDS Working Paper 569
The Covid-19 virus – and the public health response – has wrought significant disruption on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) in Bangladesh.
6 May 2022