Engaging research with policy and action: What are the challenges of responding to zoonotic disease in Africa?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1725, 2017, Pages

  Bardosh, Kevin Louis ^a   Scoones, Jake Cornwall ^b   Grace, Delia ^c   Kalema Zikusoka, Gladys ^d   Jones, Kate E ^e,f   De Balogh, Katinka ^g   Waltner Toews, David ^h   Bett, Bernard ^c   Welburn, Susan C ⁱ   Mumford, Elizabeth ^j   Dzingirai, Vupenyu ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CLARE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d Conservation Through Public Health ^*  (Uganda)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^g FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Thailand)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

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Author keywords

One health; Policy; Practice; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DEMOCRATIZATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBANIZATION;

AFRICA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; ONE HEALTH; ZOONOSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; ONE HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

EID: 85020409498     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0172     Document Type: Article

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