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(tel.: +41 22 791 3264; fax: +41 22 791 4857; e-mail: [email protected]; order on line: http://www.who.int/bookorders) W H O T e c h n i c a l R e p o r t S e r i e s Research Priorities for the Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty Technical Report of the TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty This report contains the collective views of an international group of experts and does not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated policy of the World Health Organization WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Research priorities for the environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: technical report of the TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty. (Technical report series ; no. 976) 1. Communicable diseases. 2. Environment. 3. Research. 4. Climate change. 5. Agriculture. 6. Ecosystem. 7. Neglected diseases. 8. Poverty. 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Printed in Italy Contents WHO/TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG 4), 2008–2010 vii Abbreviations ix Executive summary xi 1.Introduction 1 1.1Rationale and context 1 1.1.1Systems-based approaches 3 1.1.2Recent resurgence of infectious diseases 4 1.1.3Emerging diseases 5 1.1.4Environmental and social determinants of infectious diseases 7 1.1.5Interdisciplinary research priorities 7 1.2Group membership 8 1.3Host country 8 1.4Think Tank members 8 2.Methodology and prioritization 9 2.1Selection of TRG members 9 2.2First TRG meeting 9 2.3Stakeholder consultation 10 2.4Second TRG meeting 10 2.5Third TRG meeting 11 2.6Prioritization process 11 2.6.1Literature review 11 2.6.2Principles of priority setting 12 2.6.3Multi-criteria decision analysis 15 2.6.3.1Rationale 15 2.6.3.2Methodology 15 2.6.3.3Research prioritization 16 2.6.3.4Criteria identification 16 2.7Transformation of TRG report into a WHO Technical Report 19 3.Human infectious diseases: categorization 21 3.1Vector-borne diseases 22 3.2Waterborne diseases 22 3.3Airborne diseases 22 3.4Rodent-borne diseases 23 3.5Soil-borne diseases 24 3.6Foodborne diseases 24 3.7Disease transmitted by body fluids 26 3.8Other possible classifications of human infectious diseases 26 3.8.1Socioeconomic status 26 3.8.2Vaccination status or underlying immune status 27 3.8.3Vaccine preventability 27 3.8.4Form of the infectious agent 27 3.8.5Zoonoses, reverse zoonoses, anthroponoses and epizoonoses 27 3.8.6Burden of disease over time 28 iii 3.9Infectious diseases of non-human species that indirectly affect human health 28 3.9.1Farmed mammals, birds and fish 28 3.9.2Birds, bats, bees and amphibians 30 3.9.3Infectious diseases of plants 31 3.10Emerging infectious diseases 32 3.11Infections and chronic diseases 34 4. Environmental and agricultural drivers of infectious diseases of poverty 35 4.1Forestry changes, ecological disruption and contamination 36 4.2Dams, lakes and irrigation systems 39 4.3Agricultural intensification 40 4.4Climate change and infectious diseases of poverty 42 4.5Other environmental and agricultural driving forces 42 5.Social drivers of infectious diseases of poverty 45 5.1Poverty 45 5.2Population growth 46 5.3Urbanization 46 5.4Cultural forces and institutional change 47 6.Selected recent scientific advances, insights and successes 49 6.1One Health–One Medicine 49 6.2Eco-biological mechanisms of interaction 50 6.2.1The opening of new ‘ecological niches’ for microbes 50 6.2.2Global trade in bushmeat and its interaction with infections 50 6.2.3 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and other bat-associated infections 51 6.3Environmental quality and the burden of infectious diseases 51 6.4Climate, seasonality, environmental change, geography and infectious diseases 52 6.5Climate change and helminthiases (other than schistosomiasis) 53 6.6The value of the socio-ecological perspective 54 6.7Success stories 54 7.Hunger, nutrition, poverty and immunity 57 7.1Links between undernutrition and immunity 58 7.2Undernutrition and infections: non-immunological links 58 7.3Hunger and the first Millennium Development Goal 59 7.4Tensions and synergies between agriculture and health 61 7.5Agriculture and the Millennium Development Goals 62 7.6Environment, agriculture and health: sectoral cooperation 62 7.7Global action plan 63 7.8Global information systems and databases 63 8. Environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: selected examples 65 8.1Vector-borne diseases 65 8.1.1Malaria 65 8.1.2Dengue fever 66 iv 8.1.3Chagas disease 67 8.1.3.1Biofuel plantations 68 8.1.3.2 Amazon Countries' Initiative for Surveillance and Control of Chagas Disease 68 8.1.3.3Challenges for the future 70 8.2Waterborne diseases 70 8.2.1Schistosomiasis in Africa 70 8.2.2Schistosomiasis in south-east and east Asia 71 8.2.2.1Schistosomiasis and climate change in China 71 9.Research priorities 73 9.1Criteria preferences and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) results 73 9.2Relevant research priorities identified by others 73 9.3Priorities for policy-makers 75 10. Conclusions 81 Acknowledgements 83 References 87 Annex 1 Research priorities ranked 1-143, determined using the multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology 107 Appendix 1 Membership of Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG4) 115 Appendix 2 Disease-specific and thematic reference groups (DRGs/TRGs) of The Think Tank for infectious diseases of poverty and host countries 116 Appendix 3 Think Tank members 117 Appendix 4 Distribution of the Think Tank leadership (co-Chairs) 125 v This page intentionally left blank WHO/TDR Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty (TRG 4) 2008–2010 Reference Group Members Professor C. Bradshaw, Research Institute for Climate Change & Sustainability, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Professor C.D. Butler, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Dr S. Gillespie, Director, RENEWAL, Coordinator, Agriculture and Health Research Platform, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Geneva, Switzerland Professor F. Guhl, Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiologia y Parrasitologia Tropical (CIMPAT), Bogota, Colombia (2008–2009) Professor A.J. McMichael, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (Chair) Professor S.M. Sulaiman, Nile College, Khartoum, Sudan Professor J.A. Trostle, Anthropology Department, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Professor J. Utzinger, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland Professor B.A. Wilcox, Tropical Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Dr A.L. Willingham III, Deputy Director, WHO/FAO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training on Neglected and Other Parasitic Zoonoses, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark (2008–2009) Dr G. J. Yang, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Jiangsu, China Professor X.N. Zhou, Director, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai, China (co-Chair) Advisers Professor J. Blignaut, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Dr D. Grace, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya Career Development Fellow Dr J.H. Huang, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China vii Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases of Poverty Report of the TDR Thematic Reference Group Secretariat Dr D. Kioy, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Dr A.M.J Oduola, Coordinator, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Dr J.U. Sommerfeld, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Dr A.L. Willingham, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (2010) Dr F. Zicker, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 3 1 0 2 6, 7 9 o. N s, e eri S t or p e R al c ni h c e T O H W viii

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