2026-06-27http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/246104The objective of this research project is to investigate the international policy processes surrounding avian flu, identifying key actors and networks and associated narratives and practices of policy. The research will involve an extensive literature review, interviews with key players and a roundtable discussion of a draft paper. This report presents the results of the literature review element. From a recognition that avian flu might once again be a potential problem for human health followin g deaths in Hong Kong in 1997, it was the SARS outbreak in 2003 that alerted the international community to the potential global threat of pandemic outbreaks, and began to set the scene for the global response to HPAI from 2004-05, the focus of which increasingly shifted from dealing with the problem in areas where outbreaks occurred to developing a large infrastructure for pandemic early warning and response.13 p.application/pdfFAODocument