Power, participation and their problems
A consideration of power dynamics in the use of participatory epidemiology for one health and zoonoses research
Abstract
The use of Participatory Epidemiology in veterinary research intends to include livestock keepers and other local stakeholders in research processes and the development of solutions to animal health problems, including potentially zoonotic diseases. It can also be an attempt to bring some of the methods and insights of social science into a discipline largely shaped by natural science methods and ways of seeing the world. The introduction of participatory methodologies to veterinary epidemiology and disease surveillance follows a wider movement in development thinking, questioning the top-down nature of much post-second world war development efforts directed from the Global North towards the Global South.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme
Citation
Ebata A, Hodge C, Braam D, Waldman L, Sharp J, MacGregor H, Moore H (2020). Power, participation and their problems: A consideration of power dynamics in the use of participatory epidemiology for one health and zoonoses research. Prev Vet Med. 177:104940.