The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa was a research programme designed to deliver much-needed, cutting-edge science on the relationships between ecosystems, zoonoses, health and wellbeing, with the objective of helping people move out of poverty and promoting social justice. It was funded from 2012 to 2016 by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme.
Research focused on four emerging or re-emerging zoonotic diseases in four diverse African ecosystems, with an innovative, holistic approach marrying the natural and social sciences to build an evidence base designed to inform global and national policy players seeking effective, integrated approaches to control and check disease outbreaks.
The Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium comprised 21 partners spanning Africa, Europe and the US, and included researchers from the environmental, biological, social, political, and human and animal health sciences. They generated new knowledge on:
- Ecosystem change
- How ecology and people’s interactions with ecosystems affect disease emergence
- Disease transmission and exposure
They also make significant contributions to understanding, measuring and modelling diseases and disease affect on human wellbeing.
- See publications from the Consortium.
- Find out more about our approach.
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