Contact
Erika Chenais
Title:State veterinarian, Associate professor (veterinary infectious disease epidemiology)
Research area :Epidemiology of infectious animal diseases, mainly in the global south.
I have particular interests in African swine fever, participatory epidemiology and community engagement approaches for improving disease control. Much of my research is done in multidisciplinary teams studying how social, economic and cultural contexts shape peoples’ experience of diseases, disease prevention and control, as well as how disease control measures can be designed to be sustainable and attractive for smallholder farmers in low-income settings.
Current projects
Data collection from the outbreak of African swine fever in wild boar in Fagersta
Start/end:2024 - 2025
Project manager :Karl Ståhl
Community Engagement for Improved Ebola Disease Outbreak Prevention and Response in Uganda - Co-design for Future Global and Local Strategies
Start/end:2025 - 2027
Project manager :Erika Chenais
Enhanced and cost-effective biosecurity in livestock production
Start/end:2023 - 2026
Project manager :Erika Chenais
Improving future African swine fever outbreak management through multidisciplinary partnership and learning
Start/end:2024 - 2027
Project manager :Erika Chenais
European Partnership Animal Health and Welfare, EUP AH&W
Start/end:2024 - 2034
Project manager :Karin Artursson
Sustainable intensification of Zambian goat production in a changing world
Start/end:2022 - 2025
Project manager :Jonas Johansson Wensman
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Publications
Co-created community contracts support biosecurity changes in a region where African swine fever is endemic – Part I: The methodology. (2023)
Co-created community contracts support biosecurity changes in a region where African swine fever is endemic–Part II: Implementation of biosecurity measures. (2023)
Innovative Research Offers New Hope for Managing African Swine Fever Better in Resource-Limited Smallholder Farming Settings: A Timely Update. (2023)
Diverging discourses: Animal health challenges and veterinary care in northern Uganda. (2022)
Biosecurity in the Smallholder Pig Value Chain in Northern Uganda: Thematic Analysis of Perceptions. (2022)
Power, participation and interdisciplinary tensions: introducing a special issue on methodological developments in participatory epidemiology (2021)
Perceptions of pastoralist problems: A participatory study on animal management, disease spectrum and animal health priorities of small ruminant pastoralists in Georgia (2021)
With or without a Vaccine—A Review of Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Managing African Swine Fever in Resource-Constrained Smallholder Settings (2021)
Using the World Café model to evaluate methods for controlling African swine fever in European wild boar (Sus scrofa) populations (2020)
“Can we agree on that”? Plurality, power and language in participatory research (2020)
Subclinical Mastitis in Pastoralist Dairy Camel Herds in Isiolo, Kenya – Prevalence, Risk Factors and Antimicrobial Susceptibility (2020)
Lack of evidence for long term carriers of African swine fever virus - a systematic review (2019)
Smallholders' perceptions on biosecurity and disease control in relation to African swine fever in an endemically infected area in northern Uganda (2019)
African swine fever: update on East, Central and Southern Africa (2019)
Epidemiological considerations on African swine fever in Europe 2014-2018 (2019)