Implementation
Steering Committee
- Peter Bazeley
- Contracted Adviser to DFID
London, UK - Lovell S. "Tu" Jarvis
- Associate Dean,
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Professor,
Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California
Davis, USA - Junaidu Maina
- Acting Director
Department of Livestock and Pest Control Services
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Abuja, Nigeria
- Samuel M K Muriuki
- Chief Animal Health Officer
African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources
Nairobi, Kenya
- David Nabarro
- United Nations System Senior Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza
United Nations System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC)
United Nations
New York, USA
- Christine Okali
- Senior Lecturer
Rural Development and Gender
School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK - Moez Sanaa
- Professor
Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d'Alfort (ENVA)
Maisons-Alfort, France - Elly Sawitri Siregar
- Coordinator
Avian Influenza-Campaign Management Unit (AI-CMU)
Ministry of Agriculture,
Jakarta, Indonesia
- Jimmy W. Smith
- Livestock Advisor
Agriculture and Rural Development
World Bank
Washington, USA - Dang Kim Son
- Director
Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development - IPSARD
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
Ha Noi, Viet Nam
- Peter Stevenson
- Head of Animal Health and Welfare Research Unit, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
London, UK
The project combines two teams comprising of two international research institutes, two universities and an intergovernmental organization. These teams work in close collaboration with national research institutions and other stakeholders involved in HPAI risk management in selected countries.
Team 1 (IFPRI/ILRI)
Team Leader: Clare Narrod
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI, lead) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) address HPAI in East and West Africa and Indonesia. This research will be carried out by modelling the spatial spread; evaluating the cost-effectiveness of alternative control strategies, and assessing impacts thereof on the poor. This is in part anticipatory research – addressing what will happen if and when HPAI spreads further in Africa- which aims to aid decision makers in improving their preparedness and forward planning capabilities.
Team 2 (FAO/RVC/UCB)
Team Leader: Joachim Otte
The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO, lead), Royal Veterinary College and University of California at Berkeley assess policy responses to the threat of HPAI in the Mekong countries (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand) through retrospective and prospective studies to develop learning from HPAI epicentre countries in South East Asia.
The international teams will be working collaboratively with multidisciplinary national teams in each of the study countries. In all the modules care will be taken to enable the national collaborators to use methodologies or models which are likely to be of continued relevance within the study countries in the context of animal disease risk management. For some of research question, in the spirit of pushing the research envelope, the international teams may be doing some additional analysis.
An important part of the programme will be to ensure that any lessons learnt during the programme are disseminated to the relevant policy makers as quickly as possible, and that representative users of the research outputs are involved in the process from the outset. This will generate a participatory approach to designing the programme’s communication strategy, and will ensure that research products are demand-driven with users’ needs in mind.
Project Oversight
A Steering Committee provides overall programme guidance. The Steering Committee includes renowned scientists to provide scientific oversight; high-ranking country officials engaged in HPAI control to provide feedback on contextual relevance, and representatives of international organizations to provide linkages with other international programmes.
Project Countries
Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia
Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria