Promoting stakeholder awareness, collaboration, and engagement in One Health surveillance with a serious game
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.
Authors
- Mathieu Bourgarel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9774-7669)
- Sophie Muset
- Innocent Ndong Bass
- Marisa Peyre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0887-3418)
- François Díaz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3127-0885)
- Marie‐Marie Olive (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4111-3274)
- Ahidjo Ayouba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5081-1632)
- Hélène De Nys (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2942-4531)
- Mamadou Alimou Barry
- Saa André Tolno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5541-0336)
- Victor Yacinthe Guigma Wendmisida
- Brice Lafia
- Mathias Talla
- Emmanuel Laury
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (FR)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (IT)
- Inserm (FR)
- Eduardo Mondlane University (MZ)
- Université de Montpellier (FR)
- Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Écologie, Génétique, Évolution et Contrôle (FR)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Animal, Santé, Territoires, Risques et Ecosystèmes (FR)
- Institut de Recherches Médicales et d’Etudes des Plantes Médicinales (CM)
- Institut Supérieur Agronomique et Vétérinaire Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (GN)
- Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée (GN)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- Organisation Mondiale de la Santé Animale (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- One Health
- Published
- 2025-10-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2025.101257
- Primary Topic
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission