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Does One Health need an ontological turn? (2025)
Journal Article
Kaiser-Grolimund, A., Bukachi, S. A., Karuga, J., Kämpfen, L., Keck, F., Zinsstag, J., & Brown, H. (2025). Does One Health need an ontological turn?. Critical Public Health, 35(1), Article 2497358. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2025.2497358

One Health has gained global prominence in recent years. Alongside its emergence, there have been extensive social science critiques. In this contribution, we make the case for the value of recent theoretical discussions in the field of anthropology... Read More about Does One Health need an ontological turn?.

Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface (2024)
Journal Article
Jenkins, J., Lawundeh, W., Hanson, T., & Brown, H. (2024). Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface. PLoS ONE, 19(3), Article e0298929. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298929

‘Bushmeat’ markets are often portrayed as chaotic spaces where exotic wild animals are sold. They are hypothesized to be important sites for zoonotic disease transmission, given the prolonged and intense nature of the cross-species encounters that oc... Read More about Human-animal entanglements in bushmeat trading in Sierra Leone: An ethnographic assessment of a potential zoonotic interface.

Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say? (2023)
Journal Article
Zinsstag, J., Kaiser-Grolimund, A., Heitz-Tokpa, K., Sreedharan, R., Lubroth, J., Caya, F., Stone, M., Brown, H., Bonfoh, B., Dobell, E., Morgan, D., Homaira, N., Kock, R., Hattendorf, J., Crump, L., Mauti, S., del Rio Vilas, V., Saikat, S., Zumla, A., Heymann, D., …de la Rocque, S. (2023). Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?. The Lancet, 401(10376), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2822%2901595-1

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic vividly illustrates that the emergence of a new lethal pathogen of probable animal origin in one part of the world affects public health everywhere. In this article, we review the contributions of human-animal-environmen... Read More about Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?.

Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Kenya in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022 (2022)
Report
Lamarque, H., & Brown, H. (2022). Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Kenya in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022. [No known commissioning body]

This brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics between Uganda and Kenya in the context of the outbreak of Ebola (Sudan Virus Disease, SVD) in Uganda. It is part of a series focusing on at-risk border areas between Uganda an... Read More about Key Considerations: Cross-Border Dynamics Between Uganda and Kenya in the Context of the Outbreak of Ebola, 2022.

‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC (2022)
Journal Article
Park, S.-J., Brown, H., Wema, K. M., Gobat, N., Borchert, M., Kalubi, J., Komanda, G., & Morisho, N. (2023). ‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC. Critical Public Health, 33(3), 297-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2128990

This paper examines the atmosphere of mistrust that permeated the response to the tenth Ebola epidemic in Eastern DRC (2018–2020). The concept of an ‘atmosphere of mistrust’ that we develop in this article directs attention to the elusive-yet-pervasi... Read More about ‘Ebola is a business’: an analysis of the atmosphere of mistrust in the tenth Ebola epidemic in the DRC.