Vector-borne RADAR: Real-time Arbovirus Detection And Response
Vector-borne RADAR enhances surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases of wild birds in the UK by combining bird sampling, mosquito trapping, laboratory screening, sequencing, and outbreak early-warning methods.
About the project
Vector-borne RADAR enhances surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases of wild birds in the UK, including viruses of medical and veterinary importance.
The project combines bird sampling, mosquito trapping, laboratory screening, sequencing, citizen-science data, and early-warning methods to detect and understand emerging arbovirus risks.
Project details
- Project lead(s)
- Dr Arran Folly
- Lead organisation
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Award value
- £961,953
- Period
- March 2023 to June 2026
People and organisations
Team members
- Arran FollyPrincipal Investigator
- Rob RobinsonCo-Investigator
- Jolyon MedlockCo-Investigator
- Becki LawsonCo-Investigator
Participating organisations
- Animal and Plant Health Agency
- British Trust for Ornithology
- UK Health Security Agency
- Zoological Society of London
Research focus
- Wild birds
- Mosquitoes
- Usutu virus
- West Nile virus
- Early warning
How this connects to VBD Hub
RADAR outputs can help make multi-partner surveillance data easier to find and reuse across public, veterinary, and wildlife health contexts.
VBD Hub was not directly part of these research consortia. It was funded as follow-on shared infrastructure to support discovery, documentation, and reuse of outputs across the wider UK One Health vector-borne disease community.