
Kenya Launches One Health Strategies to Control Zoonotic Diseases
On 16th February 2022, Kenya reached a significant milestone in combating emerging zoonotic diseases by launching three One Health Strategic […]
On 16th February 2022, Kenya reached a significant milestone in combating emerging zoonotic diseases by launching three One Health Strategic […]
The World Health Organization has declared that Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR) is one of the top 10 global public health […]
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The long anticipated HORN strategic planning workshop was held between the 22nd and 26th of November 2021 at the Sarova […]
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By Dr Olivia Howland The Rongai Rivers Project (RRP) is a One Health, ethnographically led study of urban rivers in […]
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Sheikh Technical Veterinary School, Somaliland, opened in 2002 with the aim of reducing Somalia’s isolation from international networks. By creating […]
The National Rabies elimination strategy, launched in 2014, utilises a Step-wise Approach to Rabies Elimination (SARE) anchored on five main […]
The HORN One Health (OH) Masterclass is an intensive training course for early career researchers based in the Horn of […]
In July 2018, research capacity assessment at the University of Nairobi (UoN) was undertaken by the Centre for Capacity Research. […]
Ruth Omani – 2018 Sandpit Fellow – is exploring the epidemiology and transmission dynamics of Rift Valley Fever in the […]
From the 10th to the 30th of July, Dr. Muse Awale of the IGAD Sheikh Technical Veterinary School (ISTVS) in […]
In July 2018, a research capacity assessment at the University of Nairobi (UoN) was undertaken by the Centre for Capacity Research. […]
We began phase two of the study on 17th May 2021. We planned to conduct in-depth interviews and focus group […]
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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