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Theory of Change for Building Stronger Wildlife Health Surveillance Systems Globally

Liz P. Noguera Z.
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Carrie Kappel
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Jonathan M. Sleeman
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Marcela M. Uhart
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François Diaz
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Claire Cayol
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Keren Cox-Witton
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Clare Death
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Damien O. Joly
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Kevin Brown
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Emma G. Gardner
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Sarin Suwanpakdee
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Bernard Bett
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Kim M. Pepin
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Kacey Yellowbird
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Dina Saulo
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Oliver Morgan
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Sarah H. Olson
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Mathieu Pruvot
Version 1 : Received: 11 July 2024 / Approved: 12 July 2024 / Online: 15 July 2024 (19:36:21 CEST)

How to cite: Noguera Z., L. P.; Kappel, C.; Sleeman, J. M.; Uhart, M. M.; Diaz, F.; Cayol, C.; Cox-Witton, K.; Death, C.; Joly, D. O.; Brown, K.; Gardner, E. G.; Suwanpakdee, S.; Bett, B.; Pepin, K. M.; Yellowbird, K.; Saulo, D.; Morgan, O.; Olson, S. H.; Pruvot, M. Theory of Change for Building Stronger Wildlife Health Surveillance Systems Globally. Preprints 2024, 2024071055. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1055.v1 Noguera Z., L. P.; Kappel, C.; Sleeman, J. M.; Uhart, M. M.; Diaz, F.; Cayol, C.; Cox-Witton, K.; Death, C.; Joly, D. O.; Brown, K.; Gardner, E. G.; Suwanpakdee, S.; Bett, B.; Pepin, K. M.; Yellowbird, K.; Saulo, D.; Morgan, O.; Olson, S. H.; Pruvot, M. Theory of Change for Building Stronger Wildlife Health Surveillance Systems Globally. Preprints 2024, 2024071055. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1055.v1

Abstract

Background Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that infect wildlife, such as African swine fever, avian influenza, and SARS-CoV-2, have highlighted the necessity for wildlife health surveillance (WHS) due to their direct and indirect impacts on wildlife species, ecosystems, domestic animals, and human health. While global policies and guidelines exist, a critical gap remains in local-to-national implementation of WHS systems. A group of local, national, and global actors in WHS have formed a working group to address this gap. Methods and Findings The working group reports on a theory of change (ToC) developed to implement WHS from local to global scales. Through brainstorming, plenary exercise, and building on peer-reviewed science and existing surveillance systems, we identified six transformative pathways to be implemented via collaborations across scales and contexts: mindset change, policy and investment, user-driven science, user-driven technologies, capacity enhancement, and mobilization of a global community of practice. Interpretation This ToC serves as a roadmap to develop effective WHS systems that support adaptive management and implementation. WHS is fundamental to understanding the impacts of health threats to biodiversity and human and domestic animal health. This ToC presents an approach to operationalize integration of wildlife health into collaborative One Health surveillance. Funding The Science for Nature and People Partnership

Keywords

One Health; wildlife health surveillance; WHIN

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Other

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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