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This is where you find project profiles and updates, case studies, videos, and slideshows about activities supported by IDRC’s Ecosystems and Human Health (Ecohealth) program. You also find original research and synthesis published by Ecohealth staff.

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Climate change impacts health in Tunisia

Research is showing that climate change is having major impacts on human health. Weather-related disasters are on the rise and water- and vector-borne diseases are spreading. Strategies to adapt to the effects of climate change may also pose...

Boosting food security, battling bird flu in Asia

Researchers with the Asian Partnership on Emerging Infectious Disease Research (APEIR) have confirmed the importance of backyard poultry to national food security in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. They also found that organizing...

ECOHEALTH RESEARCH IN PRACTICE
Innovative Applications of an Ecosystem Approach to Health

This book, besides being informative, is inspirational. The introductory chapters, the description of the research projects, and the closing chapters that analyze the scope and challenges of ecohealth all together present evidence that this is a...

Managing waste and water improves health in Cameroon

In Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, steep hills and watercourses limit habitable land. About 21,000 people live in dense slum settlements in the Mingoa River watershed, a swampy area of 12 neighbourhoods. A project funded by IDRC’s Ecohealth...

Beyond the vector

The Ecohealth Approaches to Communicable Diseases initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean (CD LAC) funded a set of 7 research projects led by 9 multidisciplinary teams from different countries: Chagas in the Gran Chaco region (Argentina...

Brazilian Institute for Ecological Research: Teaching and applying an ecohealth approach

In reflecting on her experience at IEF 2008, Dr Suzana Padua, president of the Brazilian Institute for Ecological Research (IPE) said: “The more you understand the interconnection of everything that is alive in the planet, then it has to touch you...

Moving forward with urgency following the IEF 2008

The International EcoHealth Forum (IEF 2008) provided an opportunity to share information and profile successes across disciplines. Because ecohealth is an interdisciplinary field of study, “most of the people working in ecohealth projects don’t...

PAHO: Advocating for ecohealth

Ecohealth is “breaking new ground,” said Dr Carlos Corvalan. At the International EcoHealth Forum (IEF 2008), Dr Corvalan said it was “great to see how ecohealth has grown in a short time.”“There is agreement that [humanity is] not on a sustainable...

EcoHealth: On the way to London 2010

The biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health (the EcoHealth Association) to be held in London in 2010 will explore emerging areas in the field of ecohealth. These include: energy policy and health; ecological...

IEF 2008 Moves WHO’s eco-bio-social framework forward

The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the WHO developed the “eco-bio-social” concept, combining ecological, biological, and social perspectives “to better understand transmission dynamics of vector-borne...