Mission

Our mission is to investigate potential pandemic drivers along nature-rural-urban gradients through a comprehensive collection of social and biological data, as well as predictive modeling of zoonotic spillover rates and disease emergence in high-risk settings. By improving the knowledge and practices of at-risk communities, we strive to prevent or, at the very least, reduce the likelihood of local outbreaks becoming global pandemics.

Objectives

  1. To enhance the understanding of the drivers of emerging infectious disease (EID) pathogens and spillover, and their underlying interactions across the environment, animals, and human domains.
  2. To provide healthcare providers with an improved evidence-base and tools that enable more effective public health countermeasures.

Ambitions or Beyond State of Art

PANDASIA has ambitious goals in the following areas:

  1. Transdisciplinary and trans-sectoral approaches, including the integration of social sciences.
  2. Co-development and co-evaluation of interventions with community members to ensure cultural and contextual relevance. This aims to improve health and pandemic literacy, moving towards people-centered pandemic preparedness and response.
  3. Exploration of alternative genome sampling methods to assess biodiversity and viral presence.
  4. Implementation of high-throughput and viral capture approaches, such as shotgun and hybridization capture sequencing.
  5. Development of an easy-to-use immunological prototype assay.
  6. Co-creation of the first community-based Pandemic, Preparedness, and Prevention Literacy (3PL) intervention.

Our Main Activities

We have main activities per work package as follows:

Partners

No. Abbreviations Full name  Country  Main roles 
1 NMBU Norwegian University of Life Sciences  Norway  Coordinator 
2 NVI Norwegian Veterinary Institute  Norway  WP4 
3 UKHD Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg University  Germany  WP5 lead 
4 IZW Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research  Germany  WP2-WP3 
5 QMUL Queen Mary University of London  UK  WP1 
6 CU Chulalongkorn University  Thailand  WP1 lead 
7 UMU Umeå University  Sweden  WP4 lead 
8 KKU Khon Kaen University  Thailand  WP3 lead 
9 MU Mahidol University  Thailand  WP2 lead 
10 SUPA71 SUPA71 Co., Ltd.  Thailand  WP6 lead 

Mission

Our mission is to investigate potential pandemic drivers along nature-rural-urban gradients through a comprehensive collection of social and biological data and predictive modelling of zoonotic spillover rates and disease emergence in high-risk settings to improve the knowledge and practices of at-risk communities prevent or at least reduce the likelihood of local outbreaks becoming global pandemics.

Objectives

  1. To improve understanding of the drivers of EID pathogens and spillover and their underlying interactions across environment, animals, and human domains.
  2. To provide health care providers a better evidence-base and tools for more effective public health countermeasures.

Ambitions or Beyond State of Art

PANDASIA has ambitions in the following –

  1. Transdisciplinary, trans-sectoral approaches, and integration of social sciences.
  2. Intervention co-developed & co-evaluated with community members to ensure cultural and contextual relevance and improve health and pandemic literacy to move towards people-centered epidemic preparedness and response.
  3. Alternative genome sampling methods to assess biodiversity & viral presence.
  4. High throughput and viral capture approaches (shotgun and hybridization capture sequencing)
  5. Develop an easy-to-use immunological prototype assay.

Co-creation of the first community-based Pandemic, Preparedness, and Prevention Literacy (3PL) intervention.

Our Main Activities

We have main activities per work packages in the following

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