One Health on the Move (OHM): Multi-risk, Pastoral Mobility and Global Health

Project description

Global mobility brings opportunities and challenges to global health. Globally, pastoral communities have been mobile for centuries, offering lessons for governing mobility for improved global health security. The pastoralist communities have withstood extreme events, different governance regimes, and demographic transitions and have established knowledge of the human-animal-environment interface. They are ‘one health on the move.’ However, little do we know about the resilience of this community, which is encountering multiple risks at the same time, and the implications of these risks for global health. Past studies are fragmented and have taken a static approach limited by administrative boundaries compared to a dynamic pastoralist world. Our proposal takes a transdisciplinary research and capacity building (TDRC) approach, using the case of the Maasai community in Kenya and Tanzania to examine multi-risk, pastoral mobility and global health.  The aim of our pilot phase is to co-design a TDRC proposal for understanding the integration of multi-risk, pastoral mobility, and global health in eastern Africa.