Livestock Health Flagship: Initial
ideas for Integrated Core Project
Barbara Wieland, ILRI
Livestock CRP Priority Countries Planning Meeting
26 – 27 March 2019
Nairobi, Kenya

CoA1:
Constraints
and Threats
CoA3:
Vaccines and
Diagnostics
CoA2:
Herd Health
CoA4:
Services and
Products

Livestock health flagship key messages
• Animal diseases cause immense production losses globally,
threatening livelihoods and food security of livestock
keepers.
• The majority of the emerging infectious diseases in
humans are zoonotic, with livestock keepers at high risk of
exposure to these threats.
• Improved animal health management mitigates
production losses, secures livelihoods and increases the
availability of nutritious and safe animal source foods.
• Coordinated collaboration between laboratory and field
research is crucial to the detection and identification,
control and prevention of animal diseases.

CoA1: Understand disease constraints
Herd-level models
Disease dynamic TADs
Endemic disease burden
Socio-economic impact
National level
Disease dynamics TADs
Socio-economic and
environmental impact
Global
Emerging diseases
Socio-economic and
environmental impact
Selected modelling factors:
Production system changes: intensification, urbanization
Climate change
Combining/connecting disease and impact models at 3 levels
Outputs: disease impact estimates (current and future
scenarios), risk maps, models to evaluate efficacy and
impact of potential interventions

CoA2: Herd health
Community based approaches
• Optimise production systems to close yield gap:
control/prevent several diseases at once, improve animal
welfare, promote responsible drug use, based on existing
preventive and control tools
• Develop innovative gender sensitive capacity development
tools for farmers, DA/LEA, vets

Cluster 2/Herd health: Ethiopia
• Ongoing intervention
– Respiratory diseases and AM use (vaccination): PhD
– Reproductive health (links with CBBP): PhD
– Young stock mortality: PhD SLU (start 2019)
– Coenurosis (deworming dogs)
– GIT parasite control at community level
– Community conversation on gender roles and norms, and
zoonoses (SIF project): new modules on AMR and animal
welfare
– Trainings for vets and farmers (various topics)
– Milk safety in Borana (LSIL project)

CoA3: Vaccines and diagnostics
• Include other diseases
• Push towards multi-valent and combination vaccines
• Need for quick tests,

CoA4: Access to animal health services
Aims to improved access to veterinary products and services in
support of livestock production and to create business
opportunities, incl. for youth and women
• One Health approach for service delivery
• Engage with private sector
• PPR thermostable vaccine production
• POC tests
• Upscaling of delivery of ITM
• Business models towards privatization of veterinary services
• Bundling of services
• Formalize roole of para-veterinarians
• Out-grower models
• Explore use of novel tools: smart phones, drones, etc

What we aim for
Empower female and male animal health service
providers (public and private vets and para-vets)
– Promote health knowledge and integrated animal health
solutions as a sellable product
– New business models for animal health service delivery (PPPs)
– New extension modes (ICT, privatize extension as advisory
services)
– Diagnostic platforms (onsite, multi-pathogen, affordable)
– Vaccines: thermotolerant, multi-valent and combination
vaccines

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