In the future, how can we be more prepared when a pandemic occurs and how to enhance our response to it?
Do you have any idea or solutions to help key players better manage health risks?
How can you help to optimize the monitoring and the management of a pandemic?
« What are the integrative, sustainable, One Health-based solutions for the preparedness, response & monitoring of epidemics, and how to implement and adapt them according to the local contexts and key players? »
Zika, Ebola, Influenza, SARS, COVID-19… the list of zoonoses¹ epidemics is getting longer and epidemics are more and more frequent. The current estimate of « undiscovered » viruses in mammals and waterfowl, hosts most often identified as the origin of new zoonoses, amounts to 1.7 million [1].
Among these, between 631,000 to 827,000 [1] have the capacity to infect humans. All the related costs, more or less directly, are insane on all levels. It is urgent to act in view of the very significant human, health, social and economic impact.
The emergence, re-emergence, and spread of these zoonotic diseases are mainly fostered by human economic activity which puts pressure on biodiversity and natural habitats [1].
The One Health concept is defined as a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to health issues considering the interactions of humans, animals, and the environment.
The One Health approach makes consensus to better deal with potential new pandemics. For example, the international PREZODE initiative [2] is based on a One Health approach to better understand and act on the stages of anticipation, prevention, and mitigation of the risks of the emergence of zoonoses.
Acting and reacting upstream of the emergence of zoonosis is essential, but we must not forget the downstream aspects for which the One Health approach appears just as relevant. Building initiatives complementary to PREZODE will thus make it possible to deal with the problem in its entirety and complexity.
How can we increase our preparedness for the emergence and post-emergence phases of zoonoses with a One Health approach? How to take action in the post-emergence phase of zoonotic diseases? How to better manage the monitoring of a pandemic after its emergence? How can we organize and distribute data related to zoonoses so that they are both shareable, interoperable, and well-supervised? How to bring together the different granularities of geographical, temporal, modeling, and operational scales of a zoonotic crisis? How to move from theory to practice so that the One Health approach takes head-on the economic impacts of health risk management? How to build a dialogue of trust between science, society, and politics to act quickly and effectively in the face of the threat to global health and security?
What are the integrative, sustainable, One Health-based solutions for the preparedness, response & monitoring of epidemics, and how to implement and adapt them according to the local contexts and key players?
All applicants are welcome: we are looking for expertise from all kinds of actors.
We are looking for solutions and operational frameworks to implement them.
From the emergence to the total disappearance of a zoonosis, many decision-making frameworks, monitoring, and control protocols already exist. Nevertheless, their operationalization, costs, benefits, and impacts for animals, humans, and the environment are barely evaluated and even less in a systemic way. It is, therefore, necessary to work together.
Whatever part you play in the preparedness, response, and monitoring of epidemics, we need your expertise to think and develop functional, impactful, and sustainable solutions.
By applying for The Future Of One Health you are invited to meet with all kind of actors to collaborate in order to move towards a more resilient response to epidemics.
You will take advantage of this opportunity to find complementary approaches and skills.
The best collaborative projects that will emerge will be offered technical and operational support for 6 months to help you launch said collaboration (multi-stakeholder coordination, intellectual property, project management, fundraising, etc.)
Open to all kind of experts (company, researcher, startup, social entrepreneur, non profit and association, public organization, financing partners,…)
The Future Of program is a collaborative research and multi-stakeholders open innovation program specifically designed to launch new collaborations to find new solutions to solve social and environmental challenges.
With this program, unlike traditional innovation challenges, we are not looking to reward one or two solutions or organizations in particular. The Future Of Program aims to set up new collaborations to experiment with new solutions and respond to economic, technological, social and environmental challenges.
The Future Of has been recognized as a Sustainable Development Goals Good Practices by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in June 2021.
The IRD, the French Research Institute for Development, is a French science and technology establishment operating internationally and conducting scientific programs contributing to the sustainable development of the countries of the South, with an emphasis on the relationship between man and the environment.
SoScience, is a social entreprise helping private and public organizations to adopt collaborative ways of working to make research and innovation aligned with social and environmental challenges. SoScience is expert in Responsible Research and Innovation since 2015 for the European Commission. The Future Of methodology is recognized by the UN since June 2020 as a Sustainable Development Goals good practice.
Zoonosis¹: disease or infection naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans and vice versa.
[1] IPBES (2020) Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Daszak, P., das Neves, C., Amuasi, J., Hayman, D., Kuiken, T., Roche, B., Zambrana-Torrelio, C., Buss, P., Dundarova, H., Feferholtz, Y., Foldvari, G., Igbinosa, E., Junglen, S., Liu, Q., Suzan, G., Uhart, M., Wannous, C., Woolaston, K., Mosig Reidl, P., O’Brien, K., Pascual, U., Stoett, P., Li, H., Ngo, H. T., IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4147317
[2] https://prezode.org/
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