Research helps prevent pandemics
Region: Africa, Asia
In Africa and Asia, PREVENT project researchers are studying how humans interact with animals and how those behaviors increase the risk of disease crossing between animals and humans. Putting this evidence to work in Bangladesh, FHI 360 experts developed a program to discourage villagers from drinking raw sap from date palm trees — which is often contaminated by bats — to reduce the risk of infection from the Nipah virus. FHI 360 also trained epidemiologists from more than 20 countries on how to communicate the risks of emerging pandemic threats.
Funder: United States Agency for International Development / Australian Agency for International Development
