Alexis Delabouglise’s PhD project was initiated in the framework of REVASIA, a project aiming at building evaluation tools for animal health surveillance in the context of Southeast Asia. Alexis is particularly working on the socio-economic constraints to animal health surveillance systems in the framework of the poultry production sector. His field research activities have first been conducted in Vietnam (near Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi) and are now continuing in Thailand (Sukhothai province).

Summary

Student’s name: Mr. Alexis Delabouglise

Topic of the PhD: “The socio-economic impacts of avian influenza surveillance in Southeast Asia.”

Started in: January 2012

Main objective: The main objective of this project is to assess the socio-economic factors impacting the surveillance system of avian influenza in Southeast Asia. 

The study sites are in Northern (Hải Dương province, Cẩm Giang district) and Southern (Đồng Nai provinces) Vietnam and in Northern Thailand (Sukhothai province).

Specific objectives:

• Identify the pathways of information flow (both formal and informal) about poultry diseases between private and public actors involved or not involved in poultry production and health management. Characterization of the structure of these informal and formal information networks.
• Identify the socio-economic issues faced by local actors of the surveillance of avian influenza. Estimation of the relative importance of these constraints on the information transmission in the avian influenza surveillance system.

Candidate’s brief curriculum:

Alexis Delabouglise registered in the field of Health Geography in the University Paris 10 in Nanterre – La Défense, France. 

However, his PhD thesis has the particularity to be an inter-disciplinary research project: “My approach is not related to a specific discipline but involves the contribution of many ones at every steps of my research: epidemiology, economics, sociology, modeling and geography.”

Through field research in two Asian countries facing different socio-economic and avian influenza epidemiological contexts, Vietnam and Thailand, Alexis’ work is making a great contribution to the REVASIA project.

Read the interview of Alexis on his Research activities