This article looks into the role of traditional or so-called 'wet markets' and their importance to public health after the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights the need for a One Health approach to prevent zoonotic diseases and the importance of traditional markets for access to fresh food products,...
Publisher
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, Australia
Citation
Partners in Research for Development, 2022, 4, pp 12-14
This article focuses on research in policies that promote protection against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with the ultimate aim of designing policies that align with stakeholder's objectives and incentives.
Publisher
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Canberra, Australia
Citation
ACIAR Final Reports, 2021, FR2021/043, pp unpaginated
This chapter describes the evolution of global health governance (GHG), from the early years of international health diplomacy in the 19th century, to a discussion of the systems, actors and networks that currently hold a stake in GHG today. The various options, considerations and challenges that...
Author(s)
Okello, A.; Vandersmissen, A.; Welburn, S. C.
ISBN
2021 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242577)
Global livestock narratives have hit an interesting, and increasingly conflicting, point in recent history, with the often-lauded 'livestock revolution' accompanied by increasing 'anti-livestock' rhetoric driven largely by environmental concerns and calls to decrease, and in some cases halt, global ...
Publisher
Crawford Fund, Fyshwick, ACT, Australia
Citation
Proceedings of the Crawford Fund 2018 Annual Conference: Reshaping agriculture for better nutrition: the agriculture, food, nutrition, health nexus, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 13-14 August, 2018, 2018, pp 52-57
Taenia solium taeniasis-cysticercosis and soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) are parasitic Neglected Tropical Diseases endemic throughout Southeast Asia. Within Lao PDR, a remote northern hill tribe village had previously been identified as a hyper endemic focus for T. solium. To reduce this...
Author(s)
Ash, A.; Okello, A.; Khamlome, B.; Inthavong, P.; Allen, J.; Thompson, R. C. A.
Publisher
Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Acta Tropica, 2017, 174, pp 171-178
The recent adoption of the World Health Assembly Resolution 66.12 for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in May 2013 is an important turning point for advocacy regarding a number of endemic zoonotic infections, defined by the World Health Organization as the neglected zoonotic diseases (NZDs). In...
Author(s)
Okello, A.; Welburn, S.; Smith, J.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
Health Policy and Planning, 2015, 30, 6, pp 804-812
Background: Years of advocacy for the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have focused the world's attention on these diseases of the poor, resulting most recently in the 2012 "London Declaration" and the recent World Health Assembly Resolution WHA66.12 on NTDs in May 2013. Control of the endemic...
Author(s)
Mableson, H. E.; Okello, A.; Picozzi, K.; Welburn, S. C.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014, 8, 6, pp e2800
A survey was carried out to determine the disease and vector constraints to cattle production in pastoral communities settled in three villages of two sub-counties in Ssembabule district. A total of 454 cattle randomly selected in three villages were sampled for blood parasite infections (antibody...
Author(s)
Otim, C. P.; Ocaido, M.; Okuna, N. M.; Erume, J.; Ssekitto, C.; Wafula, R. Z. O.; Kakaire, D.; Walubengo, J.; Okello, A.; Mugisha, A.; Monrad, J.
Publisher
CIPAV Foundation, Cali, Colombia
Citation
Livestock Research for Rural Development, 2004, 16, 5, pp article 35