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Land Management on Interspecies Dynamics in Rural Kenya | MCubed Symposium 2013

120 views · Published 19 February 2014 · 13:25 · Indexed 2 October 2026

Channel: Michigan Engineering · 2014 · Science & Technology

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This project aims to understand the impact of rapid social and ecological change on disease ecology in Africa's drylands. In Laikipia County, Kenya, wide-ranging wildlife move freely among private commercial and pastoral community-owned management systems, providing a unique human-livestock-wildlife interaction. Change forces include social and environmental factors. Our pilot studies have revealed Q-fever in various species of Laikipia's livestock, a disease transmitted by animals to humans. This research examines the effects of land and animal management on the transmission of Q-fever in Laikipia among wild and domesticated animals, human residents and visitors. While this project has benefited from internal pilot funding we are in the process of applying for external funds. This cube will benefit from a combination of social science, animal ecology and public health. We seek a post doc to help bridge fields and move the research forward through the development of interdisciplinary frameworks and methodologies.
MCubed is a two-year seed-funding program designed to empower interdisciplinary teams of University of Michigan faculty to pursue new initiatives with major societal impact. The program minimizes the time between idea conception and successful research results by providing immediate startup funds for novel, high-risk and transformative research projects. The funds are intended to generate data for groundbreaking, high-impact publications, or preliminary results for new, innovative research proposals. The program also includes high-visibility, campus-wide research symposia to showcase the resulting groundbreaking research. To find out more about the University of Michigan's revolutionary way of funding research, visit:
http://mcubed.umich.edu

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