A new publication from William Gilbert, Thomas L Marsh, Gemma Chaters, Wudu T Jemberu, Mieghan Bruce, Wilma Steeneveld, Joao S Afonso, Benjamin Huntington, Jonathan Rushton has recently been published. Titled ‘Quantifying cost of disease in livestock: a new metric for the Global Burden of Animal Diseases‘, is now available online here.

Summary

Increasing awareness of the environmental and public health impacts of expanding and intensifying
animal-based food and farming systems creates discord, with the reliance of much of the world’s population on
animals for livelihoods and essential nutrition. Increasing the efficiency of food production through improved animal
health has been identified as a step towards minimising these negative effects without compromising global food
security. The Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) programme aims to provide data and analytical methods to
support positive change in animal health across all livestock and aquaculture animal populations.

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