Systemically Designing Zoonotic disease risk management
2024
Zoonotic diseases are pathogens transmitted from animals to humans. Risk for zoonotic diseases is hard to predict and effect of regulations is difficult to measure. Currently, the GGD Brabant-Zuidoost tries to minimize risk for zoonotic diseases within livestock farms through means of health advice within the permitting process. To improve this advice GGD’s created documents with regulations to minimize risk of zoonotic disease transmission. These documents, however, did not make impact within the multi-stakeholder permitting process.
Following a systemic design process, pain points and needs in the permitting process are mapped. Which showed the need for an expanded system view with additional stakeholders and contexts. Through a co-creation session with GGD’s the various contexts are assessed. Resulting in a horizon strategy for transforming the documents into valuable interventions and transitioning towards effective influence of GGD’s. A hypothetical intervention illustrates possible implementation of the documents into policy making.