Mission
To provide a platform for scientists interested in vector-borne diseases to deliver research output towards control and prevention of vector-borne diseases through collaboration and partnerships.
Vision
Excellence in research on modelling vector-borne diseases towards policy implication on control and prevention.
Network summary
The network focuses on vector-borne diseases (VBD) of humans (for example dengue and chikungunya), of livestock (for example East Coast fever and African animal trypanosomiasis), and of both (for example Rift Valley fever and onchocerciasis). These diseases are important public health problems and pose significant barriers to economic development in East Africa and beyond. They are sensitive to ecological and climatic factors that are expected to change, causing long-term dynamic patterns that differ from past experience.
The objective of the network is to develop an interdisciplinary network covering human and livestock models, economics and policy. This requires developing the expertise and relationships needed to build mathematical models of the transmission dynamics of vector-borne diseases that take climate variability and ecology into account.