Understanding and strengthening wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes: A research imperative.
Zoonoses Public Health
; 69(6): 768-776, 2022 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1932595
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the urgency and importance of monitoring, managing and addressing zoonotic diseases, and the acute challenges of doing so with sufficient inter-jurisdictional coordination in a dynamic global context. Although wildlife pathogens are well-studied clinically and ecologically, there is very little systematic scholarship on their management or on policy implications. The current global pandemic therefore presents a unique social science research imperative to understand how decisions are made about preventing and responding to wildlife diseases, especially zoonoses, and how those policy processes can be improved as part of early warning systems, preparedness and rapid response. To meet these challenges, we recommend intensified research efforts towards (i) generating functional insights about wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes, (ii) enabling social and organizational learning to mobilize those insights, (iii) understanding epistemic instability to address populist anti-science and (iv) anticipating evolving and new zoonotic emergences, especially their human dimensions. Since policy processes for zoonoses can be acutely challenged during the early stages of an epidemic or pandemic, such insights can provide a pragmatic, empirically-based roadmap for enhancing their robustness and efficacy, and benefiting long-term decision-making efforts.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Animals, Wild
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Zoonoses Public Health
Journal subject:
Veterinary Medicine
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Public Health
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Zph.12981
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