The PANDASIA venture investigates how infectious illnesses are transmitted between animals, people and surroundings and the way potential pandemics emerge. The findings can be used to boost well being literacy in several goal teams in Thailand and Europe.
Emerging infectious illnesses, that are attributable to zoonotic pathogens equivalent to viruses and micro organism are transmitted between animals and people, pose an rising menace to international well being. Zoonoses happen primarily the place wild animals and people come into common contact. Owing to its species variety, human inhabitants density, and motion, Southeast Asia is taken into account as hotspot for the emergence of latest zoonoses and subsequent pandemics. Climate change and lack of biodiversity speed up the chance of latest pandemics. The EU-funded, transdisciplinary scientific venture PANDASIA investigates potential dangers of latest pandemics in Thailand and develops preventive measures. Findings can be used to boost well being literacy of various goal teams and communities.
From 13-17 February 2023, the Kick-Off-Meeting of the EU PANDASIA venture passed off in Khon Kaen in north-eastern Thailand. Hans J Overgaard, the venture coordinator from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, says: “How does a neighborhood pandemic become a world menace and the way can this course of be averted or stopped in time? PANDASIA is a brand new, transdisciplinary EU venture by universities and analysis establishments in Europe and Thailand with the goal of investigating the origin of pandemics guided by the `One Health` strategy. This transdisciplinary strategy applies human, animal and environmental well being and social science”.
Biologists, veterinarians, mathematicians, sociologists and human medical medical doctors from Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, and Thailand are working intently collectively to grasp the dynamics of so-called zoonotic “spillover infections” and to develop a predictive framework with efficient preventive measures. PANDASIA will accumulate information from native communities in Thailand to find out their publicity to wildlife and livestock. Biodiversity specialists will pattern the related biodiversity which virologists will then study for viruses which have the potential to spill over to people. Based on these information, fashions can be developed which goal to foretell the long run threat of the unfold of latest infectious illnesses.
A pandemic preparedness and prevention literacy (3PL) intervention can be developed, carried out and examined to enhance the information and practices of native communities and to cut back and forestall doable zoonotic transmission from animals to people, thus lowering the chance of native outbreaks turning into international pandemics. Since pandemics first happen on the native degree, this can be very vital for the scientists of this venture to work intently with native authorities items and communities, non-governmental organizations and environmental and agricultural authorities in Thailand to enhance their pandemic well being literacy. The consortium companions of the PANDASIA venture goal to increase their present understanding of the drivers of rising infectious illnesses and the interplay of viruses between people, animals and the surroundings.
The PANDASIA venture is funded by the EU HORIZON.2.1 – Health program “European Union Research and Innovations Actions” (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101095444). This program explores new applied sciences and new strategies or enhance current ones. PANDASIA is coordinated by the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and contains the next consortium members:
- Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
- Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI)
- Khon Kaen University (KKU)
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin (Leibniz-IZW)
- Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg (UKHD)
- Queen Mary University of London
- Center of Excellence for Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in Animals (CU-EIDAs) on the Faculty of Veterinary Science
- Chulalongkorn University (CU)
- Umeå University
- Faculty of Environment & Resource Studies, Mahidol University (MU)
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