Predicting vulnerability and improving resilience of the Maasai communities to vector-borne infections

Climate change and agricultural encroachment are leading to lifestyle changes for the Maasai. For example, communities are becoming more residential, or moving to areas where they interact with wildlife. This increases vulnerability to Human and Animal African trypanosomiasis.

To develop an ecohealth partnership on vector-borne disease control that encompasses local leadership, contemporary modeling and other approaches to enhance community resilience and to mitigate the impact of environmental change.

The Maasai Steppe ecosystem in northern Tanzania.