Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win-win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control

Skylar R Hopkins; Kevin D Lafferty; Chelsea L Wood; Sarah H Olson; Julia C Buck; Giulio A De Leo; Kathryn J Fiorella; Johanna L Fornberg; Andres Garchitorena; Isabel J Jones; Armand M Kuris; Laura H Kwong; Christopher LeBoa; Ariel E Leon; Andrea J Lund; Andrew J MacDonald; Daniel C G Metz; Nicole Nova; Alison J Peel; Justin V Remais; Tara E Stewart Merrill; Maya Wilson; Matthew H Bonds; Andrew P Dobson; David Lopez Carr; Meghan E Howard; Lisa Mandle; Susanne H Sokolow

doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00148-6

Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win-win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control

Lancet Planet Health. 2022 Aug;6(8):e694-e705. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00148-6.

Authors

Skylar R Hopkins¹, Kevin D Lafferty², Chelsea L Wood³, Sarah H Olson⁴, Julia C Buck⁵, Giulio A De Leo⁶, Kathryn J Fiorella⁷, Johanna L Fornberg⁸, Andres Garchitorena⁹, Isabel J Jones⁶, Armand M Kuris⁸, Laura H Kwong¹⁰, Christopher LeBoa¹¹, Ariel E Leon¹², Andrea J Lund¹³, Andrew J MacDonald¹⁴, Daniel C G Metz¹⁵, Nicole Nova¹⁶, Alison J Peel¹⁷, Justin V Remais¹⁸, Tara E Stewart Merrill¹⁹, Maya Wilson²⁰, Matthew H Bonds²¹, Andrew P Dobson²², David Lopez Carr²³, Meghan E Howard¹⁶, Lisa Mandle¹⁰, Susanne H Sokolow¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. Electronic address: skylar_hopkins@ncsu.edu.
² Western Ecological Research Center, US Geological Survey at Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
³ School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁴ Wildlife Conservation Society, Health Program, Bronx, NY, USA.
⁵ Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA.
⁶ Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences and Master of Public Health Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
⁸ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
⁹ MIVEGEC, Université Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France; NGO PIVOT, Ranomafana, Madagascar.
¹⁰ Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹² Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; US Geological Survey, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI, USA.
¹³ Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, USA.
¹⁴ Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
¹⁵ Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹⁷ Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.
¹⁸ Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
¹⁹ Coastal and Marine Laboratory, Florida State University, St Teresa, FL, USA.
²⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
²¹ Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
²² Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
²³ Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Abstract

As sustainable development practitioners have worked to "ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all" and "conserve life on land and below water", what progress has been made with win-win interventions that reduce human infectious disease burdens while advancing conservation goals? Using a systematic literature review, we identified 46 proposed solutions, which we then investigated individually using targeted literature reviews. The proposed solutions addressed diverse conservation threats and human infectious diseases, and thus, the proposed interventions varied in scale, costs, and impacts. Some potential solutions had medium-quality to high-quality evidence for previous success in achieving proposed impacts in one or both sectors. However, there were notable evidence gaps within and among solutions, highlighting opportunities for further research and adaptive implementation. Stakeholders seeking win-win interventions can explore this Review and an online database to find and tailor a relevant solution or brainstorm new solutions.

Publication types

Review
Systematic Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Communicable Disease Control*
Humans
Sustainable Development*