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Living Safely With Bats: Lessons in Developing and Sharing a Global One Health Educational Resource

Martinez S 1 , Sullivan A 2 , Hagan E 2 , Goley J 2 , Epstein JH 2 , Olival KJ 2 Show all authors , Saylors K 3 , Euren J 4 , Bangura J 5 , Zikankuba S 6 , Mouiche MMM 7 , Camara AO 8 , Desmond J 2 , Islam A 2 , Hughes T 9 , Wacharplusadee S 10 , Duong V 11 , Nga NTT 12 , Bird B 5 , Goldstein T 5 , Wolking D 5 , Johnson CK 5 , Mazet JA 5 , Olson SH 13 , Fine AE 13 , Valitutto M 2 , Karesh WB 2 , Daszak P 2 , Francisco L 14 , PREDICT Consortium

Affiliations 

  • 1 EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY, USA. [email protected]
  • 2 EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY, USA
  • 3 Labyrinth Global Health, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
  • 4 Metabiota, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 5 One Health Institute, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
  • 6 Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania
  • 7 School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences, University of Ngaoundéré, Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
  • 8 Expert Surveillance Interface H/A/E FAO-ECTAD, Conakry, Guinea
  • 9 Conservation Medicine, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 10 Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Clinical Center, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 11 Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Pasteur Network, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
  • 12 Wildlife Conservation Society, Viet Nam Country Program, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 13 Wildlife Conservation Society, Health Program, Bronx, NY, USA
  • 14 Henry Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD, USA
Glob Health Sci Pract, 2022 Dec 21;10(6).
PMID: 36951282 DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00106

Abstract

As part of a public health behavior change and communication strategy related to the identification of a novel ebolavirus in bats in Sierra Leone in 2016, a consortium of experts launched an effort to create a widely accessible resource for community awareness and education on reducing disease risk. The resulting picture book, Living Safely With Bats, includes technical content developed by a consortium of experts in public health, animal health, conservation, bats, and disease ecology from 30 countries. The book has now been adapted, translated, and used in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia. We review the processes used to integrate feedback from local stakeholders and multidisciplinary experts. We also provide recommendations for One Health and other practitioners who choose to pursue the development and evaluation of this or similar zoonotic disease risk mitigation tools.

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