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Kenya’s One Health record shows research mattered when it was translated into disease-control policy

An ILRI retrospective traces how sustained research partnerships contributed to national strategies for anthrax, brucellosis and Rift Valley fever.

Evidence
Institutional synthesis
Geography
Kenya
System
Human–livestock–wildlife disease governance

WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS

An ILRI evidence-to-policy brief reviews a decade of Kenyan One Health research and partnerships and links that work to three national policy products: an anthrax control strategy, a human brucellosis testing strategy and a Rift Valley fever contingency plan. The emphasis is on the institutional work required to move evidence through agencies and into operational guidance.

WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ

Disease science does not become public policy automatically. The case is useful because it treats translation capacity—long-term relationships, cross-sector institutions and decision timing—as part of the evidence system rather than as communication added after research is finished.

CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY

This is an institutional retrospective from an organization involved in the work, not an independent causal evaluation of policy effectiveness. The existence of a strategy does not demonstrate implementation quality or improved disease outcomes.

SOURCE

International Livestock Research Institute
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