ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa, and Virtual
March 18, 2021
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Global Burden of Animal Diseases:
Disease prioritization theme
Kebede Amenu1, Theo Knight-Jones2 and Delia Grace2,3
1Addis Ababa University, 2International Livestock Research Institute, 3Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich

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Outline of the presentation
 Disease prioritization and resource allocation
 Animal health decision-making: Role of GBADs and prioritization
tools
 Major activities (2021)
 Iterative survey of end-users
 Synthesis of lessons learned on resource allocation for animal health
 Points of discussion

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Disease prioritization and resource allocation
• Resource is limited!
• Animal health priority setting
• Criteria or evidence-based priority setting approaches
[rationality?]
• Heuristic or intuitive approaches [can lack rationality?]
• Need for rational and transparent tools or approaches
for prioritizing animal diseases which can further
justify resource allocation
• Resource Allocation Decision Support Suite of Tools (RADSST)
• GBADs [Burden of Animal Disease estimate]

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Disease prioritization and resource allocation
• GBADs is a new initiative and new product
• Who are end-users of GBADs and RADSST?
• Potential to be accepted by end-users (animal health
planners and analysts)?

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Disease prioritization activities: Two major activities
 Iterative survey of end-users of GBADs and RADSST
 Synthesis of lessons learned on resource allocation for
animal health

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Iterative market survey of end-users
• Surveys of potential GBADs users focusing on Africa, Asia and
Europe
• Survey could include assessment of the existing current
practices related to disease prioritization and understanding
of animal disease burden
• Survey of the perception of decision makers towards GBADs
and RADSST

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Potential end-users: proposed lists (examples?) -
global levels
• National governments (representing different parts of the globe, Africa,
Asia, Europe, America, Australia…?)
• Private companies
• Inter-governmental agencies (FAO, OIE, WHO, ILRI, CGIAR, World Bank)
• Regional or continental agencies (e.g. AU-IBAR, IGAD, EU)
• Donors
• NGOs

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Synthesis of lessons learned on resource allocation
for animal health
• Garner information from people who have learned lessons
about resource allocation for animal health or relevant to
this.
• Conduct a systematic literature review of grey and published
literature

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Year 2
• Validation through workshop
Expert consultation
Key people from other themes
Key end-users

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Question and comments?

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