COVID19

ILRI News on COVID19

28 Apr 2022

Building pathogen monitoring networks across Kenya - The Rockefeller Foundation

In a recent article, the Rockefeller Foundation highlighted senior International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) scientist Samuel Oyola's efforts to prevent and mitigate future pandemics through the establishment of surveillance and response teams in Kenya and the expansion of in-country...

Elliot CarletonPrinceton in Africa Fellow

ILRI News

06 Apr 2022

Taking context seriously: In the developing world, containing COVID-19 came at a cost only now being understood

ILRI scientists recently published a paper in the journal Agricultural Systems . Reproduced here is the press release published in EurekAlert . In a recent survey of farmers in seven countries of the developing world, up to 80 per cent of respondents reported eating less and up to 50 per cent...

Brenda CorominaPrinceton in Africa Fellow: Assistant Writer/Editor

COVID19

ILRI News

21 Mar 2022

Renowned vaccinologist Peter Hotez on the COVID-19 pandemic—and how a new vaccine can help end it

With the global surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant finally subsiding, many are wondering what the next phase of the pandemic has in store. To help answer that question, ILRI invited Peter Hotez, a tropical medicine specialist who began his career as a scientist with ILRI’s...