Mobile pastoralists in Africa: a blind spot in global health surveillance

Hannah Wild^{1

2}, Seid Mohammed Ali³, Bonfoh Bassirou⁴, Rea Tschopp^{5

6

7}, Michele Barry^{1

8}, Jakob Zinsstag^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, CA, USA.
³ Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia.
⁴ Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
⁵ Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁸ The Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Hannah Wild et al. Trop Med Int Health. 2020 Nov.

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. 2020 Nov;25(11):1328-1331.

doi: 10.1111/tmi.13479. Epub 2020 Sep 17.

Hannah Wild^{1

2}, Seid Mohammed Ali³, Bonfoh Bassirou⁴, Rea Tschopp^{5

6

7}, Michele Barry^{1

8}, Jakob Zinsstag^{6

7}

¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, CA, USA.
³ Jigjiga University, Jigjiga, Ethiopia.
⁴ Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
⁵ Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
⁶ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁸ The Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Demographic and Health Surveys; Sub-Saharan Africa; health surveillance; nomadic populations; pastoralists; public health; zoonoses.

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