The One Health Social Sciences Initiative invites you to a webinar event on Rabies and One Health in India - An Anthropological and Ecological perspective

Citizen Science, passive surveillance and rabies in India

Dr Abi T. Vanak

Faculty member at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India.

Description:
Dog-mediated rabies in India continues to be an important public health concern, especially in rural areas, despite it being an easily vaccine-preventable disease. The reasons for this are many, including a lack of timely access to post-exposure prophylaxis, belief in alternate systems of medicine, and a poor understanding of the dynamics of disease in dog populations. Abi T. Vanak will present a large-scale, citizen reporting driven passive surveillance system they undertook in Pune city in western India and the surrounding rural areas.