Promoting stakeholder awareness, collaboration, and engagement in One Health surveillance with a serious game
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic and recurrent Mpox and Ebola virus epidemics have revealed a critical need for One Health disease surveillance systems, and especially systems with integrated community-based approaches for early disease detection. Local stakeholders, including community workers in the human, animal, and environmental health sectors, are at the forefront of emerging disease detection and early warnings. However, their involvement in surveillance systems remains limited, even though they play a critical role in event- and community-based surveillance and responses. We developed a collaborative board game, called ALERT, to strengthen stakeholder engagement across all levels of One Health surveillance systems in West and Central Africa. This serious game has generated significant enthusiasm among the 500 people who have tested it in over 100 countries.
Source: One Health
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Université de Montpellier, Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôle, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Institut Supérieur des Sciences et de Médecine Vétérinaire, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Inserm, Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les Maladies Infectieuses, Organisation Mondiale de la Santé Animale, Eduardo Mondlane University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,080
Funder: European Commission
Awards: G2875236884, G6440623904
OpenAlex ID: W4415613106