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In the October issue, STOP Spillover at SEAOHUN’s International Conference, read the results of Uganda’s Outcome Mapping, and much more!

In Case you Missed It! STOP Spillover at the SEAOHUN 2022 International Conference

Last month, more than 300 health practitioners, educators and researchers from 30 countries came together at the SEAOHUN 2022 International Conference in Thailand to discuss complex health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance, and how to apply a One Health approach to address these challenges.

STOP Spillover’s Vietnam Country Team Lead Ha Nguyen Ngoc and STOP Spillover’s Vietnam Lead for the Surveillance, Modeling, & Mapping Hub Quyen Nguyen presented on their ongoing work to stop future spillovers and pandemics by reducing risk and embracing the One Health approach:

Ha Nguyen Ngoc discussed how to use the Outcome Mapping approach to strengthen One Health platforms and prevent zoonotic spillover. Her presentation highlighted specific spillover risks in Vietnam and the benefits of using Outcome Mapping as a bottom-up participatory tool to address these challenges. Read her presentation here and see the poster here.

Quyen Nguyen presented on the importance of using the One Health approach to design, plan, and implement local zoonotic spillover prevention policies. In her presentation, she stressed the importance of local government officials and authorities being active participants in the One Health approach. Read her presentation here.

New Report: Outcome Mapping at Work in Uganda

STOP Spillover aims to enhance global understanding of the complex causes of the spread of a selected group of zoonotic viruses from animals to humans. To do this, we’re taking a One Health approach—focused on getting to the root causes of viral spillover by understanding the role of a wide range of complex drivers of spillover across the environmental, health and wildlife sectors. Part of this approach is using Outcome Mapping, a participatory process that brings stakeholders together in designing, monitoring, and evaluating a project or intervention for sustainable social and institutional change.

This month, we released a report detailing the results of our Outcome Mapping sessions in Uganda. The report has critical information about zoonotic disease pathogens and points or locations with the highest spillover risk in Uganda, obstacles to addressing those risks, and how to overcome them.

Read the report

Read about STOP Spillover – in French and Khmer

What are STOP Spillover’s main objectives? How does STOP Spillover work? What does each member of the STOP Spillover global consortium do? Who are STOP Spillover's partners? What countries does STOP Spillover work in?

Check out our STOP Spillover fact sheets for these answers and more — now available in English, French, and Khmer.

Learn more about STOP Spillover

Partner Spotlight

STOP Spillover is a global consortium led by Tufts University with experts in infectious disease forecasting and epidemiology, virology, virus ecology, prevention, food and water safety, risk analysis including gender-associated dimensions of risk, social and behavior change, global health diplomacy, and One Health programming and education at 14 organizations. In this section of the newsletter, we’ll introduce you each month to one of our partners.

Meet the Broad Institute

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is an organization that works to accelerate biomedical research and help the world conquer disease. Within the Broad, the Sabeti Lab specializes in infectious diseases and has a long history of working with partner countries to surveil and respond to outbreaks across the world. They develop diagnostic technologies, generate and analyze pathogen genomes, build tools for data sharing, and provide training for the scientific and public health workforce. The lab has been on the front line of most of the major outbreaks of the past two decades, including Ebola, Zika, Lassa, and the recent coronavirus pandemic.

As part of the STOP Spillover consortium, the Broad Institute’s Sabeti Lab collaborates with STOP Spillover’s country teams and other consortium members to implement proven technologies and develop innovative CRISPR-based systems for pathogen detection. With an initial focus in Liberia, the team is working with stakeholders to apply technology for performing real-time surveillance in humans, wildlife, and domestic animals to help stop future spillovers and pandemics before they start.

Learn more about STOP Spillover's partners

Tech Byte

In this section of the newsletter, we share innovations in data and diagnostics, and technologies that can be used to identify and reduce spillover risk, amplification, and spread.

How Digital Agriculture Can Help Stop Spillover

Earlier this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization, a UN agency focused on defeating hunger and improving nutrition and food security, released a new report on digital agriculture. The report explored the use of new and advanced technologies integrated as one system to enable farmers and others within the agriculture value chain to improve food production. The report looked at these systems in 47 countries, including STOP Spillover’s priority countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.

This type of “smart farming” enables digital collection, analysis, and sharing of data on agriculture, which could help prevent zoonotic spillover by catching spillover threats early. Additionally, these platforms could be used to keep livestock managers informed in real time about livestock handling safety practices to reduce spillover risk.

Read the report

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