The One Health PACT consortium is a research collaboration that brings together experts from various disciplines across the Netherlands. We aim to gain systemic understanding of mosquito-borne diseases and of how their emergence and transmission is influenced by major environmental and social changes.
The Netherlands is particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of viral diseases transmitted by mosquitoes due to its water-dominated landscape, dense humans and livestock population and the expected establishment of new mosquito species such as Aedes albopictus. Separated and reaction-based research efforts into the numerous factors interplaying in the emergence of viral outbreaks, however results in disconnected research findings and critical factors unstudied. The One Health PACT is a research collaboration of experts in a wide variety of fields relevant for infectious disease outbreaks, ranging from ecological and climate modelling to medical entomology, virology and public health.
The One Health PACT project takes place within a multidisciplinary research field. The aim of our project is to extensively look into all aspects of preparedness of potential arboviral introduction and spread. To reach this goal, many partners from different fields are involved. Among those partners are the universities, where our PhD students and Post-doc are located. In addition to that, the NWO financed this project together with several co-financiers that all provide their expertise in different research fields. Lastly, there are national and international collaborating partners involved in the project by sharing data and knowledge with our researchers. An overview of all the partners is given below.
On the news page of our website you can find updates on our projects and news articles on exciting findings and events within our project.
The pandemic has seen the breakthrough of genomic surveillance, with a massive global response from the bioinformatics community, developing tools to be able to mine the nascent datasets in a use friendly way. A commentary
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants and resources
Nature Methods - Outbreak.info empowers real-time variant monitoring and tracing of associated publications and resources ...
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Very interesting and diverse week with @OneHealthPact! Mosquito identification, wild bird catching and metagenomic sequencing for arboviral surveillance in wildlife. @BlomRody @TjommeM @MarionKoopmans @Essenburgpark
We're looking for #postdoc w interest in #immunology, #arboviruses &diagnostics to understand emergence&spread on human-animal-interface in several (inter)national projects @AcademicTrnsfr @EuropeVeo @OneHealthPact @pdpc21 @MarionKoopmans @IDAlertproject
Vacature: Postdoc on the development, validation and application of serological assays to understand epidemiology and spread of viruses in the human and animal populations
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the development, validation and application of serological a...
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Masterclass for Technasium students @OneHealthPact @CharlotteLinth @BlomRody
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This project 'Preparing for vector-borne virus outbreaks in a changing world: a One Health Approach' (NWA. 1160.1S.210) is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
More about this project and the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
OHPACT is a NWA ORC project. More info can be found here