report · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
One Health projects involve diverse participants, such as veterinary epidemiologists, field ecologists, anthropologists, and livestock-keeping communities. These different parties often hold distinct, conflicting standards regarding what counts as adequate evidence. Current formal instruments like terms of reference, data management plans, and consortium agreements allocate tasks, manage data storage, and assign rights, but they fail to capture acceptable evidential standards or address conflicts between them. The epistemic charter is introduced as a short operational document developed at project inception to resolve this gap. Drafted directly by the project participants, the charter explicitly records what each party accepts as evidence and what should happen if standards clash. It is updated at predetermined milestones and published alongside the main project protocol to ensure methodological alignment throughout the research lifecycle.
Multidisciplinary initiatives often struggle when different experts and local groups evaluate evidence using conflicting rules. By establishing mutual evidential standards at the start of a collaboration, projects can avoid costly misunderstandings and build clearer, more transparent research governance across diverse professional fields and local communities.
The epistemic charter serves as a project governance and procedural tool for multi-stakeholder research partnerships, particularly those involving public health, academic, and community actors. It is conceptualised for direct use at project inception. However, the abstract does not indicate a commercialisation pathway or direct product development potential.
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One Health projects bring together parties who do not agree about what counts as adequate evidence. A veterinary epidemiologist, a field ecologist, an anthropologist and a community of livestock keepers each hold standards that are reasonable within their own practice and that do not transfer intact to the others. Existing project documents do not record this. Terms of reference allocate roles. Data management plans specify how data will be stored. Consortium agreements distribute rights. None of them asks what each party will accept as evidence, or what happens when those answers conflict. The epistemic charter is a short document, produced at project inception, that records exactly that. It is completed by the parties themselves, revised at defined points, and published alongside the protocol.
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22125641
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