Better lives through livestock
One health, three healths, many healths
Delia Grace, Professor food safety systems, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich
Joint appointed scientist, International Livestock Research Institute
Seminar at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Uppsala, Sweden
4 November 2021

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The current crisis: COVID-19 pandemic

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Costs of emerging zoonoses and pandemics
Graphics: Annabel Slater, ILRI

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Warning! Increasing frequency of pandemics
Graphics: Annabel Slater, ILRI; adapted fromUnited Nations Environment Programme and International Livestock Research Institute (2020).
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission. Nairobi, Kenya.

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Preventing the next pandemic
Seven major anthropogenic
drivers of zoonotic disease
emergence
1. Increasing demand for
animal protein
2. Unsustainable agricultural
intensification
3. Increased use and
exploitation of wildlife
4. Unsustainable utilization
of natural resources
5. Travel and transportation
6. Changes in food supply
chains
7. Climate change
United Nations Environment Programme and International Livestock Research Institute (2020). Preventing the Next
Pandemic: Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission. Nairobi, Kenya.

VET-LED
One Health

MED-LED

DEV-LED
EcoHealth

ECO-LED
Planetary
Health

Human health
Human
health
„One Medicine“
Ecosystems
Societies
Economies
Peace
Institutions
“Syndrome
approach”
Agroecosystem
Animal
health
Veterinary Public
Health
Ecosystem Approach
to Health
Planetary
Health
One world – one health
VET-LED

THE ELEPHANT
described by 6 blind persons touching different parts…
Photo: U. Wiesmann
 All are somehow right
 All are somehow wrong
 Nobody was able to describe the entire reality

Timely responses to reduce impacts
• Surveillance and response in animal hosts can reduce costs by 90%
Adapted from
IOM 2009

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Engagement to increase effectiveness

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• The first evidence-based global
estimates of the many scientific,
economic, policy and capacity
development impacts of livestock
research in and for developing
countries.
• Four main sections (18 chapters)
• Animal Genetics, Production and
Human Health
• Primary Production
• Tropical Livestock Systems and
Policies
• Future of Livestock Research
The Impact of the International
Livestock Research Institute
Edited by John McIntire and Delia Grace
What we did
• Veterinary epidemiology
• Zoonoses
• Food safety & nutrition
• 2 chapters on trypanosomosis
• East Coast fever
• Immuno-parasitology
• Policy and economics
• Gender

One Health Research, Education and
Outreach Centre in Africa (OHRECA)

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