Dear All, I'd like to share a paper titled 'Global governance for pandemic prevention and the wildlife trade', which came out today and could be of potential interest to this group. Here is the link to the journal, which is fully open access:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519623000293 Here is the paper abstract: Although ideas about preventive actions for pandemics have been advanced during the COVID-19 crisis, there has been little consideration for how they can be operationalised through governance structures within the context of the wildlife trade for human consumption. To date, pandemic governance has mostly focused on outbreak surveillance, containment, and response rather than on avoiding zoonotic spillovers in the first place. However, given the acceleration of globalisation, a paradigm shift towards prevention of zoonotic spillovers is warranted as containment of outbreaks becomes unfeasible. Here, we consider the current institutional landscape for pandemic prevention in light of ongoing negotiations of a so-called pandemic treaty and how prevention of zoonotic spillovers from the wildlife trade for human consumption could be incorporated. We argue that such an institutional arrangement should be explicit about zoonotic spillover prevention and focus on improving coordination across four policy domains, namely public health, biodiversity conservation, food security, and trade. We posit that this pandemic treaty should include four interacting goals in relation to prevention of zoonotic spillovers from the wildlife trade for human consumption: risk understanding, risk assessment, risk reduction, and enabling funding. Despite the need to keep political attention on addressing the current pandemic, society cannot afford to miss the opportunity of the current crisis to encourage institution building for preventing future pandemics. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or comments. Thank you in advance and best regards, Ed. Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, PhD David H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow School of Marine and Environmental Affairs University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ce9QIDkAAAAJ (please note, I recently completed my PhD at the University of Queensland, so I am still transitioning between email systems) Vice President for Education and Outreach Society for Conservation Biology www.conbio.org<http://www.conbio.org> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/SY4P282MB22996D6DFE32DA0561098B9CB3939%40SY4P282MB2299.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
