Advancing One Health Data Capture at the Point of Zoonotic Spillover in the Congo Basin Forest Perimeter
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Funding Fogarty Program
Mobile Health (mHealth)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Advancing One Health Data Capture at the Point of Zoonotic Spillover in the Congo Basin Forest Perimeter
Principal Institution
University of California at Davis
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Evans, Tierra Smiley; Kellermann, Scott; Wilkes, Michael S
Project Contact Information
Email:
tsmevans@ucdavis.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2023-2025
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Project Description
This project will develop a One Health mHealth platform to improve detection of zoonotic spillover in the Bwindi region of southwestern Uganda. It will be applicable to other sub-Saharan regions and help answer questions regarding the ecological scenarios supporting ebolavirus emergence, enabling forecasting to prevent future outbreaks.
This project is well integrated with existing NIAID funded AFI surveillance programs and collaborates closely with the Ugandan Ministry of Health, and will provide an optimal scenario for rigorously evaluating the benefits of adding an mHealth component to long term zoonotic disease monitoring, benefiting the sustainability of all developed platforms.
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