Strategic Partners
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Mission
Eyes on the ground for animal health
Outbreaks of disease in animals pose an increasing threat to biodiversity conservation and public health. In many rural parts of the world, these are difficult to spot.
Wildlife Health Watxh extends the EarthRanger platform to connect people working in remote landscapes and their observations of animal health, to decision-making in conservation, veterinary medicine and public health.
13
Protected areas
11,000+
Square kilometers
80+
Rangers trained
0
Events detected
Approach
Focus Areas
WHW comprises a three-step approach to enhancing detection and response to outbreaks of animal-borne diseases in geographically remote landscapes
01
Reporting
Having developed a health module for the WHW platform, our team is piloting this in 13 protected areas in Kenya over a two-year period.
Wildlife rangers are being trained to recognize and report symptoms of disease, and data is being passed in real-time to field veterinarians, conservation managers and epidemiologists who work for the Kenyan Government.
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Epidemiological Intelligence
We are harnessing the power of the EarthRanger platform and artificial intelligence to automate detection and flagging of local epidemiological patters, so that stakeholders are notified of potential outbreaks of animal-borne disease in real-time.
This high quality 'epidemiological intelligence' feeds back to professionals working on the ground to support in-field decision-making.
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Response
With a grant from Ending Pandemics, we are developing a participatory model for the management of diseases circulating in geographically remote wildlife populations.
Specifically, we are seeking to link data generated by the WHW platform in Kenya to veterinary response mechanisms, and a pipeline capable of generating beneficiary-centred and beneficiary informed risk reduction measures, within the framework of One Health approach.
OPEN SOURCE
From the pilot in Kenya, we aim to develop the technical infrastructure to scale WHW through open-source protocols, automated packages, and best practice guidelines