Better lives through livestock
One Health approach to address zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases and
antimicrobial resistance issues in low- and middle-income countries
Hung Nguyen-Viet, Hu Suk Lee, Fred Unger, Arshnee Moodley, Eric Fèvre, Barbara Wieland, Bernard Bett,
Michel Dione, Edward Okoth, Johanna Lindahl, Sinh Dang-Xuan and Delia Grace
9–10 November 2020

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Reduce
poverty
Improve
food and
nutrition
security
Improve
natural
resources
and
ecosystem
services
ILRI’s mission is
to improve food and nutritional security
and to reduce poverty in developing
countries through research for
efficient, safe and sustainable
use of livestock —
ensuring better lives through livestock.
CGIAR and ILRI mandates
Livestock contribute to all 17 of
the SDGs and directly to at least 8
of the goals.

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Why focus on livestock health?
 Animal health
o Animal diseases cost several billion dollars a year and represent a major
constraint to increasing productivity; many tropical diseases represent neglected
problems.
 Human health
o Most animal source food in developing countries is sold in wet markets and most
is unsafe; foodborne disease causes over 2 billion people to fall ill every year.
o Animal health products are used widely, often unwisely or are not available, e.g.
drugs, antimicrobials and vaccines. More antimicrobials are used in animals than
in humans.
 Ecosystem health
o One new disease emerges every four months: 75% of new human diseases
emerge from animals; many have a wildlife–livestock interface

Gender and socio-economics: incentives, value chains, impacts, livelihoods etc.
Management unit
Graduate fellowships: fellowship program; science communication
Field practitioners: community-based surveillance; value chain actors; lab technicians
Policymakers and mitigation agents: simulation exercises (link to international health
regulations; action plans, contingency plans, disease control policies
EMERGING
INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
NEGLECTED
ZOONOTIC
DISEASES
FOOD SAFETY
& INFORMAL
MARKETS
ANTIMICROBIAL
RESISTANCE
Thematic areas
Applied research
Biomedical science: epidemiology, surveillance and diagnostics, disease control etc.
Environment: climate and other environment drivers, animal waste management etc.
Capacity building
Integration of
thematic areas
Work in common
systems, integrated
surveillance
systems, common
tools, environment,
strengthening of
One Health units
One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa

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One Health
• Understanding the linkages
• Adding values:
• More knowledge
• Better health (human or animal)
• Economical benefits
CGIAR is uniquely positioned and actively promoting
One Health in low- and middle-income countries
human
environment
animal
One
Health

Animal and Human Health program: Goal and activities
To manage effectively or eliminate livestock, zoonotic and foodborne diseases that matter to poor
people through generation and utilization of new knowledge, technologies and products
Herd health Food safety and
antimicrobial resistance
Zoonoses and emerging
infectious diseases
Vaccines and diagnostics
Program activities centre around two fundamental objectives:
1. To increase the productivity of tropical livestock through better health
2. To reduce the negative impacts of livestock and their products on human health and the environment

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Locations of project countries
Animal and Human Health program at ILRI
Location of program partners

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by: Sonja Niederhumer
A portfolio of product lines, focusing on products with clients and a delivery system
 Farmer training to improve herd
health and livestock
productivity
 A package of technologies,
incentives and governance to
improve food safety in informal
markets
 Risk maps for zoonoses and
pandemic surveillance,
prevention and progressive
control
 Vaccines for priority diseases

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Insights on disease priorities in Ethiopia
• Differences in disease priorities between
policymakers and farmers
o Parasites and respiratory diseases most important
to farmers
o Reproductive diseases neglected in the past
• Division of labour results in different zoonoses
risks for men and women
o Limited knowledge on zoonoses in general
o Low awareness of risky behaviour
More emphasis needed on production diseases
SARI
ARARI
OARI

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• Integration of interventions at community level
• Strong community participation, with other interventions by
the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock
• Parasite control
• Vaccination for production diseases
• Clinical diagnosis and monitoring
• Responsible antimicrobial use
• Mobile app to facilitate herd health and
productivity data recording over time
• Synergies of animal welfare and agroforestry
Intervention highlights in Ethiopia
SARI
ARARI
OARI

Urban livestock keeping in Hanoi city, Vietnam: Systems and
vector-borne diseases
1. Knowledge, attitudes and practices
among urban inhabitants regarding
risks and benefits of urban agriculture,
and current knowledge on mosquito-
borne disease transmission
2. The distribution of mosquitoes and Flaviviruses
(dengue, Japanese encephalitis, and Zika virus)
present in urban mosquitoes and its relationship to
livestock keeping.
4. Intervention package
• On-site training
• Given fans with simple key messages
• Weekly reminders through text messages
 3. Risk factors of mosquito-
borne flavivirus by
investigating febrile patients
in a national hospital

Work on zoonoses and emerging diseases in Africa:
Early warning and forecasting
• Studies on Rift Valley fever, a
mosquito-borne viral zoonosis
mainly affecting cattle, sheep,
goats and camels
• Outputs
o Risk maps
o Improved understanding on drivers, e.g.
climate change variability
o Livestock vaccination strategies
o Influencing policy in Kenya and Uganda

Surveillance of influenza virus in live bird markets in Hanoi
and three highland border provinces in northern Vietnam
- Monthly collection of swabs, faeces, bioaerosol, poultry worker nasal wash samples in the live bird markets in three
border provinces: H7N, emerging infectious diseases, pigs and poultry
- Weekly collection of samples in the biggest live bird markets in Hanoi

One Health work
in Kenya
Surveillance design
Agriculture interventions for human health
‘Classical’ zoonoses epidemiology
Landscape epidemiology and disease transmission
Emerging virus research
Wildlife interface
Antimicrobial resistance: population genetics,
antimicrobial use
Training in One Health
Food chains and disease transmission
Health of low-income urban populations
Urban disease emergence
Intensification of farming
Policy development
Contact: Eric Fèvre, ILRI Nairobi
www.zoonotic-diseases.org
@ZoonoticDisease

15Foodborne disease: A new priority, most probably from animal-source food
Million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost per year (global)
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
16,000,000
18,000,000
20,000,000
Asia Africa Other
developing
Developed
Other toxins
Aflatoxins
Helminths
Microbial
Havelaar et al. (2015)
31 hazards
• 600 mio illnesses
• 420,000 deaths
• 33 million DALYszoonoses
non zoonoses
Burden in low- and middle-income countries
Cost estimates for 2016 (US$ billion)
Productivity loss 95
Illness treatment 15
Trade loss or cost 5 to 7
Domestic costs may be 20
times trade costs

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Research approach: what do we do to understand
and improve food safety?
Key content
Grid slaughter
Frequent washing (and
disinfection)
Training
Separation (clean/dirty)
Branding
Key content
Easy to clean surface
Frequent washing (and
disinfection)
Separation (fresh/cooked)
Training
Hygienic cutting board
Branding
Approach:
• Situational analyses of food safety
• Capacity building on risk-based approaches
• Proof of concept: participatory risk assessment
• Pilot testing interventions

Policy impact: translational research for interventions in
modernizing food system
• CGIAR/ILRI niche: risk assessment and policy/regulatory
analysis for fresh foods in domestic markets
• World Bank convenes overall support to government:
ILRI led technical work
• Upcoming projects based on World Bank report we led
will improve food safety for 20 million people in major
cities of Vietnam

COVID-19 response at ILRI
• One Health COVID-19 testing at ILRI for Kenya
by the BMZ-funded One Health Centre in
Africa
• Continue to produce evidence-based scientific
assessments (e.g. active surveillance)
• Policy options (e.g. raise awareness and
improve health governance)
• A One Health approach is the optimal method
for preventing and responding to pandemics

www.cgiar.org
Partners:
CGIAR COVID-19 Hub
http://a4nh.cgiar.org/covidhub/
The CGIAR COVID-19 Hub provides a coordinated research response to the global pandemic
threatening health systems worldwide, along with posing serious risks to food security; local
businesses and national economies; and hard-fought progress by stakeholders at all levels towards
the Sustainable Development Goals.
Launched 23 June 2020, the hub focuses on the four
research pillars making up the core of CGIAR’s response to
COVID-19:
1. Food systems
2. One Health
3. Inclusive public programs
4. Policies and investments
CGIAR COVID-19 Hub will focus on four primary
work areas:
1. Addressing value chain fractures
2. Integrating a One Health approach to COVID-19
responses
3. Supporting country COVID-19 responses
4. Addressing food system fragility and building
back better

Partnerships
Antimicrobial
use and
value chains
Transmission
dynamics
Interventions
Enabling
policy
Capacity
Key partners
Key projects
amr.cgiar.org

• Antimicrobial use and knowledge, attitudes and
practices surveys
• Antimicrobial resistance prevalence and
transmission at human–animal interfaces
• Interventions including economic impact
• Capacity development (laboratory capacity and
mentorship)
Studies conducted in different value chains
New activities in West Africa
Burkina Faso (poultry, food)
Benin (aquaculture)
Other antimicrobial resistance projects
• Antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in crop production
• Fate and transport of antimicrobial resistance in water bodies
• Antimicrobial resistance in wildife and bushmeat
Antimicrobial resistance
activities
amr.cgiar.org

Collaborative initiatives between ILRI and Korea
• MAFRA: Third ODA forum
• RDA–NIAS: African swine fever projects in Vietnam; development of disease
resistance in chicken in Africa
• APQA: International workshop on veterinary epidemiology
• Korea Telecom: Livestock Epidemic Prevention Platform in Southeast Asia

RDA–NIAS: Identification of environmental risk factors on African
swine fever-infected farms (ongoing project)
Farm sampling
Pig samples
Blood
Rectal swab
Nasal swab
Oral swab
Conjunctiva
Environmental
samples
Mosquitoes & flies
Rat
Soil, water
Aerosol

Partnership with Korean researchers
Universities and institutes: Vaccine and diagnostic kits

Take-home messages
1. Livestock plays a key role in food security and in addressing the Sustainable
Development Goals.
2. Animal health, human health and ecosystem health are closely interconnected, and One
Health is a useful approach to address complex health issues.
3. ILRI’s Animal and Human Health program has a portfolio of product lines in zoonoses,
emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and herd heath,
focusing on products with clients and a delivery system.
4. Collaborations with Korea are being developed including African swine fever research
and information and communication technology for animal health surveillance and
response, among others.

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