Workshop highlights vector borne diseases

Researchers joined the workshop from schools and centres across the University of Edinburgh – Biological Sciences, Geosciences, the Roslin Institute, Health in Social Science and the Vet School – and the Moredun Research Institute.  

Attendees discussed key questions in the field, and the broad transdisciplinary collaborations needed to approach them

• surveillance/monitoring of environmental drivers
• prevention and treatment of VBD infections in hosts
• control of vectors and their populations
• assessment and monitoring  of health, social and economic impacts
• ethical implications of vector control 

Participants from over 30 research groupingsheard short talks on a wide range of topics including sustainable control of crop ​viral vectors; African trypanosome transmission biology; understanding the impact of parasites in natural populations​; climate variables and deprivation on the incidence of Dengue virus infection, and the socio-economic factors driving human vulnerablility to zoonoses.  

They also explored the wide range of specialist facilities and sources of expertise in Edinburgh that underpin much of the research activity into vector borne diseases.

The presentations on research topics and facilities are now available.

School of Biological Sciences

School of Geosciences

School of Health in Social Science

Roslin Institute

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

SEBI-Livestock

EPIC (Scottish Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks)

Large Animal Resesrch Imaging Facility

Moredun Research Institute

Centre for Hydrology and Ecology