Archive of selected news items from the website...

[December 2011]: The PAZ Busia Laboratory molecular and serological diagnostic facility is built - in association with the ILRI/BecA AusAid-CSIRO African Swine Fever project
[November 2011]: Our group is represented at a Joint Colloquium on Zoonoses and Neglected Infectious Diseases of Africa, in Johannesburg, South Africa
[October 2011]: Dorte Dopfer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine visits our Kenyan projects with a UW Global Health Institute award
[October 2011]: Results of studies investigating brucellosis in Kampala, Uganda, on herd prevalence/risk factors and spatial distribution of human cases, are published
[September 2011]: Our group co-hosts (with ILRI) a workshop on developments in pen-side diagnostics for Taenia solium cysticercosis at ILRI, Nairobi, funded by the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
[September 2011]: We are participating in a World Rabies Day dog vaccination and rabies awareness activity in Kiambu West District of Kenya - this is managed by the Kenya Women's Veterinary Association (KVWA)
[August 2011]: We welcome Hannah Johnson (University of Edinburgh UK) and Mason Jager (Cornell University USA), summer undergraduate students working on the PAZ project
[August 2011]: Lian Doble and Annie Cook participate in the Advanced Epidemiology Course at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA)
[August 2011]: Applications for the ILRI-AusAid-CSIRO sponsored PhD position on African Swine Fever epidemiology are now closed
[August 2011]: Applications for an ILRI-sponsored PhD post on African Swine Fever, in collaboration with and the University of Pretoria, are now open
[July 2011]: Congratulations to MSc student Elija Juma, who has been selected to attend ''Advances in knowledge of parasite resistance of ruminant hosts '' taking place in São Paulo, Brazil in September 2011
[June 2011]: We welcome Daniel Cheruiyot and Lorren Alumasa, both Clinical Officers, to the team in Busia
[March 2011]: The work of our project on zoonoses in livestock and humans in Western Kenya features on the Catalyst Programme on Australia's ABC television
[January 2011]: The Good Practice Guide for Quantitative Veterinary Epidemiology, which we have been involved with developing, is released this month
[April 2011]: Applications are now CLOSED for the recently advertised Clinical Officer and Community Health Worker posts
[March 2011]: Applications are open for two new field posts in Western Kenya - a Clinical Officer and a Community Health Worker (Kenyan nationals only); closing date is 15 April
[December 2011]: We welcome Elijah Juma to the group, working on his MSc project at the University of Nairobi, on human behaviour and the risk of parasitic disease transmission
[December 2010]: Our research group was part of the 3rd International Conference on Neglected Zoonotic Diseases at WHO, Geneva; this has resulted in a position statement on neglected zoonoses issued by WHO
[December 2010]: Our analysis of the risk of brucellosis transmission through the milk distribution network in Kampala, Uganda, led by Kohei Makita, is published in PLoS ONE
[November 2010]: Our jointly authored publication, led by Lucas Matemba on the burden of human sleeping sickness in Tanzania is published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
[September 2010]: We welcome William de Glanville and Annie Cook to the group; Will and Annie are starting PhD programmes focussing in different aspects of zoonotic disease epidemiology
[July 2010]: We welcome Katie Hamilton to the group; Katie will be working on preparing a research programme on urban zoonotic diseases in Kenya
[July 2010]: The International Livestock Research Institute features the work of the PAZ Project on the ILRI blog
[May 2010]: We are very pleased to announce the start of our latest project on the drivers of the emergence of zoonotic and food-borne diseases in urban environments, funded through the MRC/LWEC ESEI scheme
[May 2010]: The Veterinary Record features the activities of the PAZ project on neglected zoonoses in Kenya
[April 2010]: We welcome John Mwaniki, Hannah Kariuki, Fredrick Opinya and Jenipher Ambaka to the group, who come to use through our collaboration with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
[March 2010]: Summer project opportunity in Kenya (June-July 2010) for a veterinary student focussing on 'One Health'
[February 2010]: The British Veterinary Association newsletter for Feb 2010 features an article on Lian Doble's research in Western Kenya
[January 2010]: Our jointly-authored paper on serological patterns of zoonotic infections in cattle in Cameroon is published in PLoS ONE
[January 2010]: Our paper on the comparative value of diagnostic tests for animal trypanosomiasis in Western Kenya is published in PLoS ONE
[January 2010]: We welcome James Akoko, Omoto Lazarus, Alice Kiyonga and Edward Onkendi to the group.  See our People pages
[January 2010]: Applications are no longer being accepted for the PhD position on the epidemiology of neglected, zoonotic diseases
[December 2009]: Nicola Batchelor publishes key work on the spatial epidemiology of sleeping sickness in Uganda in PLoS NTD
[December 2009]: We welcome Cheryl Gibbons, who is working on estimating the burden of infectious diseases, to the group
[October 2009]: Now open for applications - PhD position on the epidemiology of neglected, zoonotic diseases
[August 2009]: We are taking informal inquiries from interested parties relating to a research assistant post on quantifying the burden of communicable diseases in Europe
[June 2009]: We co-authored an article reporting the results of a pilot study on the epidemiology of cysticercosis (Taenia solium) in Uganda, published in the Journal of Parasitology Research
[March 2009] We participated in the World Health Organization's latest output on neglected zoonoses: "Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonotic Diseases in Africa: Applying the 'One Health' Concept."  Now available with full text on-line here
[March 2009] We co-authored an article reporting progress on the mapping of the population at risk of sleeping sickness, "Towards the Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis," published in the International Journal of Health Geographics
[January 2009] Recently advertised post-doctoral and PhD positions have now been filled, and applications are closed
[December 2008] Article on peri-urban brucellosis in Uganda published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science
[December 2008] Eric Fèvre speaking at the ‘Living with Climate Change (LWEC)” Health Workshop hosted by the Scottish Government (on globalisation, trade and animal disease)
[December 2008] Article on the burden of Human African Trypanosomiasis published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
[December 2008] PhD competition funded by the BBSRC now open, for a PhD position to study neglected zoonotic diseases...
[October 2008] Applications open for post-doctoral position jointly with Achim Schnauffer's group (IIIR, Edinburgh) and funded by CIIE
[September 2008] www.zoonotic-diseases.org goes live!