Research at SVA
Research and development is one of our four main tasks, which has a major bearing on our ability to tackle the three remaining tasks: disease surveillance and preparedness; diagnosis and analysis; and knowledge transfer.
Strategic research areas
Research at SVA is focused on infectious diseases and biologic toxins. We work with zoonotic, epizootic and endemic diseases. We have five defined strategic research areas: antimicrobial resistance, disease preparedness, future diagnostics, infectious diseases in wildlife and zoonotic enteric diseases. However, research is not limited to these strategic topics.
The purpose of all research at SVA is to generate knowledge and technical support for activities within our responsibility, which can be found in the governmental instructions for the institute. Our vision is "Healthy animals – Safe people". By continuous horizon scanning and dialogue with other authorities, industry and farmer´s associations we identify lack of knowledge and needs for research and development. We use a One Health approach, wherever applicable.
The scope of our research is broad and we strive for and always consider suggestions for national and international collaboration. We have unique competence in several areas. Find out more about recent and ongoing research projects.
International collaboration
Research and development at SVA is perfomed in close collaboration with both national and international universities, research institutes, organizations and companies. Different kinds of projects are managed at SVA, between individual researchers and research groups as well as projects spanning the entire institute.
Some international projects
- European Partnership Animal Health and Welfare, EUP AH&W (2024– 2034)
- Ecology of Wild-life, Livestock, huMan and Infectious Diseases in changing environments (2023–2028)
- IDAlert: Infectious Disease decision-support tools and Alert systems to build climate Resilience to emerging health Threats (2022–2026)
- Data-driven control of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases (DECIDE) (2021–2025).
- Modern approaches for developing antivirals against SARS-CoV 2 (2020–2024)
International networks
- CoVetLab
- European network for medical and veterinary entomology (VectorNet)
- STAR-IDAZ – Coordinating animal health research globally to accelerate delivery of disease control tools and strategies
- Epizone
One Health Sweden
Most human infections are caused by microorganisms that originates from animals. However, historically science has ben divided into different disciplines depending upon if the agent is found in humans, domestic animals or wild life. One Health Sweden is a network for researchers, working by stimulating interdisciplinary research and increasing knowledge about One Health.
Research projects
Our research projects are available on the Swedish page.
Last reviewed 07/05/2025