One of the major challenges we noted in the process was that the
evaluation and assessment of government efficacy focused on
individual agency processes and workforce issues, and rarely considers systems and activities that do/should cut across agency lines. The OH SMART Tool and approach helps stakeholders review existing cross-sectoral interactions, identify areas of improvement and
Global hotspots for
emerging infectious diseases that originate in wildlife A database of all known emerging infectious diseases3 since 1940 was used to identify the most likely origins of each separate emergence event. Presence or absence of infections emerging from wildlife was analysed with logistic regression against a series of known drivers, including human population density, change in human population density, and wildlife diversity (mammalian species richness), gridded