Mizeck Chagunda leads advisory panel board for Supporting Evidence Based Interventions

Wednesday 5th July 2017, 3:00pm

Mizeck Chagunda, Reader for Future Farming Systems at SRUC, has taken on a new responsibility in his commitment to supporting livestock health and production in sub Saharan Africa.

Photo of Mizeck Chagunda, Reader for Future Farming Systems at SRUC

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Dr Chagunda has been appointed Chair of the External Advisory Panel (EAP) for SEBI (Supporting Evidence Based Interventions), a project lead by Professor Andy Peters, Visiting Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and former Head of International at SRUC.



"This is an important development and link to SRUC’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa. For example the work that our PhD students such as Bridgit Muasa, Aluna Chawala, Hariet Bunning, and Oluyinka Abejide are doing in cattle production and genetics directly links with some of the broader objectives of SEBI."

Dr Mizeck Chagunda

The SEBI programme has two core objectives. The first is to reduce cattle and small ruminant mortality, disease and reproductive losses in three sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania. The second objective aims to strengthen and integrate data systems to prioritise, and track output and outcomes of livestock investments in developing countries. 

While there are a number of organisations worldwide collating data, they can’t cross compare this information and SEBI will create a hub in which this can happen.

"We are coordinating a ‘community of practice’, in which companies and institutions will subscribe to common processes for their livestock data management. Currently there is nothing out there quite like this."

Professor Andy Peters

The purpose of the EAP is to provide external advice and peer review for SEBI so that its activities are supported by other experts from the livestock development community.  

The first meeting of the EAP took place in Edinburgh on 19-20 June. This is a great opportunity for SRUC to be involved in what is aimed to be a world leading ‘go to’ platform for development work in livestock activity in Sub-Saharan Africa.  

SEBI is funded by a three year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and has steadily built momentum over the last year.



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