Applications are invited for funding of research from April 2002 in the field of tropical animal health through the Department for International Development Rural Livelihoods Department¡¯s Animal Health Programme (AHP).

AHP research must target appropriate groups of livestock keepers and livestock species for whom the programme can have specific relevance.

Appropriate groups: moderately poor people owning/managing small numbers of livestock; displaced people for whom livestock are an important component of livelihood.

Appropriate livestock species: small stock as part of a network of income generating activities; larger stock, cattle and camels where they underpin livelihoods of poorer people.

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Four inter-related thematic areas of research will address animal health problems of these target groups: point of care diagnostics and decision support systems; human health impacts of animal diseases: zoonoses; dissemination and delivery of animal health knowledge; vaccine development.

Preference will be given to proposals that are important to the livelihoods of poor people in countries in East, Central and Southern Africa or South Asia.

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Details:
Address: DFID Animal Health Research Programme Office
Sir Alexander Robertson Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine
The University of Edinburgh
Easter Bush Veterinary Centre
Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RG

Telephone: 0131 650 6287
Email: ahp@vet.ed.ac.uk