Report of the expert workshop: Community Knowledge and Social Sciences Contributions to Zoonotic Disease Prevention

The PREZODE (PREventing Zoonotic Diseases Emergence) initiative, which the ASAMCO project is tied to, aimed to build resilient socio-ecological systems in order to prevent zoonotic disease emergence while preserving biodiversity and combatting poverty, social injustice and food insecurity. The ASAMCO project is the second phase of PREACTS (PREzode in Action in the global South) project, led by IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) and funded by AFD (Agence Française du Développement), as the first operational component of the PREZODE initiative.

Despite their increasing recognition within the One Health agenda, the effective integration of social sciences into zoonotic disease prevention remains constrained by several structural, epistemological, and institutional challenges. These obstacles explain why, historically, Humanities and Social Sciences have been underrepresented in disease prevention programmes and why their contributions and mobilizations often arrive late in the research process.