Hot Off The Press–New HALI Research Briefs Available

Three new HALI research updates are available from our sponsor, the Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program.  These brief papers detail our investigation into livestock losses from disease, gender roles in pastoralist society, and highlight the exciting training course called Envirovet!

Just click on the links to download a pdf version of the brief.
HALI 09-01:  Landscape [...]

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Focus on Training Part Deux – HALI Honor’s student Enos Kamani

In part 2 of the series about HALIs Honor’s students at Sokoine University, we highlight Enos Kamani’s project.
Enos is a 5th year veterinary student from the Mwanza region of northern Tanzania near Lake Victoria. Enos’s research project is a dirty job – he is working to determine how frequently young cattle  in pastoralist households shed [...]

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Focus on training Part I – HALI Honor’s Student Khadija Said

This year two exceptional veterinary students at Sokoine University of Agriculture are conducting their Honor’s research with the HALI Project.
Khadija Said is a 5th year veterinary student from the Tanga region of northeastern Tanzania. She is conducting molecular typing of Salmonella spp. and E.coli bacteria to identify the relatedness of bacteria isolated from different water [...]

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HALI team members from UC Davis visit Tanzania

April through early May, HALI Project Coordinator -Deana Clifford, and HALI Project team member – Woutrina Miller visited Tanzania to work with HALI students and team members in the field and at Sokoine University. HALI is in its third year now, and we are starting to analyze the information we have collected about diseases affecting [...]

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