Project C:
The Team
Prof. P Gwakisa
NMAIST
Role: Principal investigator. Prof Gwakisa is an animal scientist with research experience in immunology and infectious disease of livestock.
Dr R Crane
PSU
Team: Meteorology, Climate Models and Downscaling
Role: Climate downscaling modelsDr B Hewitson
UCT
Team: Meteorology, Climate Models and Downscaling
Role: Climate downscaling and application in East Africa
Dr M Thomas
PSU
Team: Entomology
Role: Vector development rate estimation from temperature variation
Dr M Malecela
NIMR, Tanzania
Team: Health
Role: Health care issues, immunology
Dr L Matemba
NIMR, Tanzania
Team: Health
Role: Public health and epidemiology of zoonoses
Dr A Estes
PSU/NMAIST
Team: Land Use
Role: Project co-ordinator: land-cover change and habitat analysis
Dr M Agaba
ILRI/NMAIST
Team: Trypanosome genetic identification
Role: Livestock Animal Genetics, trypanosome identification
Ms A Rose
GKI
Team: Social Sciences research, action and outreach
Role: Action research programme
Prof. P Hudson
PSU/NMAIST
Team: Disease dynamics
Role: Disease dynamics, project co-ordination with students
Ms HJ Nnko
NMAIST
Team: Meteorology, climate models and downscaling
Role: PhD student researching the "Climate impact on tsetse and trypanosome distribution in the Tanzania Maasai Steppe"
Mr A Ngonyoka
NMAIST
Team: Land use
Role: PhD student researching "The correlates of land cover characteristics on abundance and distribution of tsetse flies and trypanosomiasis prevalence in the Maasai Steppe"
Mr MS Meshilieki
NMAIST
Team: Social sciences research and action/outreach
Role: Project research assistant: Monitoring and evaluation and social surveys
Ms LP Salekwa
NMAIST
Team: Trypanosome genetic identification
Role: Project research assistant and PhD student
Ms M Simwango
SUA
Team: Trypanosome genetic identification
Role: MSc student researching the "Molecular prevalence of trypanosome species in cattle and tsetse fly hosts
Dr M Neselle
Team: Health
Role: Field coordinator