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The School of Public Health at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University (AAU), has recently received a Clevertouch […]
The School of Public Health at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University (AAU), has recently received a Clevertouch […]
A team from IGAD Sheikh Technical Veterinary School (ISTVS), funded by the HORN project via our COVID Sandpit event in […]
The coronavirus (COVID-19) was first reported in China in December 2019. COVID-19 has spread across the world, and according to […]
The Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology (DMIP), School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University (AAU), has received 26 new UltraBIo-5 […]
A team from Addis Ababa University, funded by the HORN project via our COVID Sandpit event in June 2020, recently […]
The One Health Leadership Programme was all set to take place as a face-2-face event in Kenya, in May 2020. […]
The HORN project undertook a survey to quantify baseline estimates for how much research is currently, or has recently been, […]
By Dr Olivia Howland A paper from Olivia’s recent study of indigenous medicines in Kenya has just been published in […]
Work by Olivia Howland, a PDRA on the HORN Project, has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s […]
The 6th World One Health Congress is taking place as a “virtual” event between the 30th October and the 3rd […]
From the 1st – 5th June 2020, the HORN project hosted its third Sandpit event which culminated in six research […]
The Soulsby Foundation was established in 2016 by Lord Soulsby, his colleagues, family and friends, to honour his life’s work […]
My name is Ruth Omani and I am one of the 2018 sandpit research fellows. I am currently involved in […]
Since the first case of COVID19 in Somalia on March 16, 2020, cases have rapidly spread to all federal member […]
The inaugural HORN One Health Masterclass was held on the ILRI campus in Nairobi from 25th November to 6th December […]
One Health is the concept that the health and well-being of people is linked to the health of their animals and the environment. It is nowhere more true than in the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti) where many people’s livelihoods are highly, or in some cases entirely, dependent on livestock. Animals are culturally, socially and economically vital in the region. Livestock provide, for example, over 60% of agricultural GDP in the Horn. Livestock are also a source of human disease. Outbreaks of disease in animals thereby directly affect people’s health but also their wealth and nutrition.
Livestock production and human health and wellbeing in the Horn of Africa can be increased through research, leading to improved agricultural systems; more food and less malnutrition; more financial resilience; and better detection, diagnosis, prevention and control of disease.
HORN is a multidisciplinary, international partnership of the following organisations: the University of Liverpool, and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; University of Nairobi, and International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya; University of Addis Ababa, International Livestock Research Institute, Jimma University, and Mekelle University, Ethiopia; Red Sea University, Somalia; Amoud University and iGAD Sheikh Technical Veterinary School, Somaliland; Hamelmalo Agricultural College, Eritrea; and other national and international organisations and NGO’s.
HORN’s mission is to improve the health and wealth of the people of the Horn of Africa by developing a One Health Regional Network – a network of individuals and organisations across the Horn of Africa – that can undertake high quality research into the link between people’s health and wealth and that of livestock and the environment.
HORN will strengthen the ability of organisations to undertake research with a 5 step process:
The HORN project is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) from the Growing Research Capability call. The project was awarded £7.7 million to improve the health and wealth of people in the Horn of Africa by increasing local capacity to undertake ‘One Health’ research.
The GCRF call aims to build upon research knowledge in the UK, and to strengthen capacity overseas by addressing challenges informed by expressed need in the developing countries.
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