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18 livestock investments to take One Health to scale and prevent new pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest evidence that we can’t protect human health if we fail to protect the health of animals and environments. A new One Health playbook makes the case that livestock systems, economies and peoples of the South are One Health game-changers—inflection points for a...

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Preventing future pandemics hinges on improving Global South livestock systems, says new One Health playbook

Scientists present 18 ways governments, investors and experts can protect human health by addressing interactions with livestock and their environment across seven key areas. A new One Health playbook offers governments around the world 18 practical ways to improve livestock systems in developing...

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Building pathogen monitoring networks across Kenya - The Rockefeller Foundation

In a recent article, the Rockefeller Foundation highlighted senior International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) scientist Samuel Oyola's efforts to prevent and mitigate future pandemics through the establishment of surveillance and response teams in Kenya and the expansion of in-country...

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Taking context seriously: In the developing world, containing COVID-19 came at a cost only now being understood

ILRI scientists recently published a paper in the journal Agricultural Systems . Reproduced here is the press release published in EurekAlert . In a recent survey of farmers in seven countries of the developing world, up to 80 per cent of respondents reported eating less and up to 50 per cent...

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Renowned vaccinologist Peter Hotez on the COVID-19 pandemic—and how a new vaccine can help end it

With the global surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant finally subsiding, many are wondering what the next phase of the pandemic has in store. To help answer that question, ILRI invited Peter Hotez, a tropical medicine specialist who began his career as a scientist with ILRI’s...

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Pills for the pandemic: Dieter Schillinger gives an update on pharmaceuticals for treating COVID-19

In a presentation titled ‘Pills for the Pandemic’ for the International Livestock Research Institute’s in-house townhall on 26 November 2021, Dieter Schillinger , deputy director general of research and development–Animal and Human Health, gave an update on pharmaceuticals for treating COVID-19...

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Dairy genetics gains platform launches dairy e-learning tool for farmers across Africa

African Dairy Genetics Gains platform funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has recently launched the ADGG Dairy Tool , a free interactive digital short course, covering cattle breeding and health management practices for farmers and extension agents. The free interactive micro-courses has been developed by the livestock genetics team in partnership with Learn.Ink which are accessbile through smart phone devices and are available in any country. Kiswahili translations of the tools are especially targeted for farmers in eastern Africa.

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Marking the Open Access Week 2021 with a focus on research output from ILRI’s Policies, Institutions and Livelihoods Program

This year’s International Open Access Week is being held between 25–31 October. The theme is 'It matters how we open knowledge: Building structural equity.' The International Open Access Week provides an opportunity to raise awareness about research outputs published in open access to enable their...

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What COVID-19 reveals about humanity's relationship with the natural world

Amid the worldwide suffering caused by COVID-19, a silver lining emerged: that because of the slowdown in human activity, nature itself was healing. A widely circulated image on social media summed up the idea: it showed Mount Kilimanjaro’s towering snow-covered peaks, supposedly glimpsed from...

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Adrian Hill, of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, on the platforms and progress of global health vaccines

For those of you who, like me, are getting behind in your ‘vaccinology’ education and/or updates, here is a friendly, lucid and very current primer from Adrian Hill. Hill was recently interviewed by Brian Perry, a former research leader at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) who...

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An update on COVID-19 vaccines, supply, performance and in-house tests

By Brenda Coromina Currently, there is a COVID-19 vaccine supply problem that disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries, said Vish Nene at a town hall meeting at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in July. Only vaccines that are on the World Health Organization...

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ILRI scientists and research partners contribute to growing body of knowledge on COVID-19

As countries around the world continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), in collaboration with national and international research partners, are contributing to the growing body of knowledge on COVID-19 and its impacts on...