Welcome to the Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases research group, led by Dr Eric Fèvre. Our website aims to provide an outline of the work currently under way in our collaborative team. We are based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution (CIIE), in the Institute for Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR), University of Edinburgh, where we collaborate closely with a wider group of epidemiologists, immunologists and evolutionary biologists.  At present, we are physically based at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), in Nairobi Kenya, with a significant focus of research activity operating from our field laboratory in Western Kenya.

We study a range of epidemiological issues revolving around domestic livestock and humans, in particular the epidemiology of zoonotic and emerging/re-emerging diseases.  We have significant research activities on-going on co-infections with zoonoses, on elucidating the epidemiology and societal impacts of specific zoonotic pathogens, as well as activities on pathogen discovery in various domestic and wildlife reservoir species.  We are involved in studies to both develop and apply tools for measuring the burden of infectious diseases in humans.  We work with a range of local and international partners, and are involved in research projects based in Africa, Asia and Europe at present (see Research pages).  Key research themes are:

• Epidemiology of multiple zoonotic infections in domestic animal and human hosts
• Field studies and modelling to better understand multi-host pathogens
  
• Role of livestock demography and trade on the spread of disease
• Interactions between domestic animals and the environment and the role of the environment on exposure to infection
• Quantification of the burden of disease, including estimating under-reporting
• Base-line data collection for neglected zoonoses in the field
  

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LATEST NEWS:


January 2012: ILRI publishes a series of posts on the ILRI-BioLives blog, entitled "A Day in the Life of the PAZ Project"
December 2011: Statistical modelling PhD position now open for applications - click here for details
November 2011: The World Health Organization releases the Atlas of Human African Trypanosomiasis, which received contributions from our group
November 2011: Our group is represented at a Joint Colloquium on Zoonoses and Neglected Infectious Diseases of Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa
October 2011: Dorte Dopfer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine visits our Kenyan projects with a UW Global Health Institute award

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