This grant will allow the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador (UASB-SE), to consolidate its International PhD Program on Health, Environment and Society with a view to building regional re
This project follows up on a earlier project on institutionalizing Ecosystem approaches to human health in West and Central Africa (102148). The earlier project saw the development of an Ecohealth cur
The emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases affecting Brazil today result from complex interactions between natural and human systems. Zoonotic diseases such as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, rabie
In 2007, IDRC provided the Ecohealth Journal with a grant to increase its Southern content (104284). The results were satisfactory. The magazine increased the number of articles from the South and add
Chagas disease is a important vector-borne disease that constitutes a significant burden of illness among the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). More than 10 million people in the region a
Southeast Asia is undergoing rapid agricultural intensification affecting crops, livestock and plantation forestry. Such agricultural change can be good for human health by improving food security, nu
Development of Ecohealth as an academic field has been catalyzed by a series of conferences starting in Washington DC in 2002. IDRC was heavily involved in organizing two of these: the large Ecohealth
The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) is one of the most important associations of researchers working on environmental problems and their consequences on health. ISEE is hol
IDRC's Ecohealth program endeavours to build the field of Ecohealth through research, capacity-building and networking activities. And yet, while the concept of field-building is widely recognized, pu
Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus is the leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia. This mosquito-transmitted disease has spread over the last 20 years, putting more than 3 billion people in South an