Beyond silos: Drivers and barriers to intersectoral collaboration in zoonotic disease surveillance and response in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Joannishka K. Dsani; Sherry Ama Mawuko Johnson; Sandul Yasobant; Walter Bruchhausen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0347471

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Beyond silos: Drivers and barriers to intersectoral collaboration in zoonotic disease surveillance and response in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Joannishka K. Dsani ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: joannishkad@gmail.com

Affiliations One Health Graduate School, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Section Global Health, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (IHPH), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4234-8987

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Sherry Ama Mawuko Johnson,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana
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Sandul Yasobant,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations One Health Graduate School, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Section Global Health, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (IHPH), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Centre for One Health Education, Research and Development (COHERD), Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Department of Public Health Science, Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1770-8745

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Walter Bruchhausen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations One Health Graduate School, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Section Global Health, Institute for Hygiene and Public Health (IHPH), University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, German-West African Center for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC), Bonn, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8115-2334

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Beyond silos: Drivers and barriers to intersectoral collaboration in zoonotic disease surveillance and response in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Joannishka K. Dsani,
Sherry Ama Mawuko Johnson,
Sandul Yasobant,
Walter Bruchhausen

Published: April 16, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0347471

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