Coronaviruses roadmap:
Control Strategies
Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for coronaviruses
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Stakeholder acceptance
Stakeholder acceptance
Research Question
- New ways to engage with stakeholders (public and policy decision-makers) to improve social acceptance of control strategies
Research Gaps and Challenges
- Identifying relevant key stakeholders and finding ways to engage effectively to communicate the benefits of introducing control measures
- Influencing decision-makers by successfully communicating the future savings (in financial terms) made from the implementation of control measures in the present
Solution Routes
- Mapping stakeholders and amplifiers in peace time, including social media usage
- Experiences of recently declared global emergencies should be considered (e.g. M-pox)
- Social studies to meliorate communication campaign
- Increasing stakeholder acceptance within the agricultural sector by lobbying politicians to introduce compensation for farmers
- Comms tools – getting the correct message to the correct people has huge impacts for success. In the case of vaccination, some studies show that communicating the potential harm of the disease influences human behaviour more than communicating the benefit of the vaccine. Nevertheless, animal owners tend to be receptive to vaccination
Dependencies
- Funder buy-in to conduct studies to assess tolerance of various control measures
- Cost-benefit analysis to be complete, at least partially, to enable economic quantification of financial savings
Projects
What activities are planned or underway?
Differential susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 in animals : Evidence of ACE2 host receptor distribution in companion animals, livestock and wildlife by immunohistochemical characterisation
Planned Completion date 26/07/2021
Participating Country(s):
Netherlands
Veterinary Biocontained facility Network for excellence in animal infectiology research and experimentation
Planned Completion date 28/02/2023
Participating Country(s):
Europe