Agri-Health / AHH / Asia / Emerging Diseases / ILRI / ILRI40 / Southeast Asia / Vietnam

ILRI@40 celebrations in Hanoi focus on opportunities for ‘One Health’ in livestock research

This year (2014) is a milestone for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) as it marks 40 years of livestock research. On 1 October, ILRI headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya marked ‘ILRI@40’ with a conference on livestock-based options for development.

Two weeks later, on 13 October, ILRI in East and Southeast Asia celebrated 40 years of ILRI’s research by holding a gala dinner at Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam on the sidelines of a three-day One Health workshop, which ILRI co-organized. Continue reading

A4NH / AHH / Animal Diseases / Emerging Diseases / ILRI40 / Southeast Asia / Zoonotic Diseases

Successes and challenges in capacity building on ‘ecohealth’ in Southeast Asia

To address current challenges related to disease emergence in livestock and humans, new integrated approaches are needed to promote collaboration between actors and groups towards more effective control. Southeast Asia is considered a hotspot for diseases emergence as demonstrated by the emergence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Such … Continue reading