Investigating Zoonotic Interface

Sierra Leone, Africa

  • Environment & Health
  • Epidemiology
  • *Infectious Diseases
  • Nutrition
  • Population & Family Health

Conducted by Catherine Bolten and primatologist Andrew Halloran, director of chimpanzee care at Save the Chimps, on the Tonkolili Chimpanzee Project. This project studies chimpanzee survival, conservation, and the possibilities for zoonotic disease transfer in light of rural food insecurity, overpopulation, climate change, and the recent Ebola epidemic.

Researchers

  1. Portrait of Catherine Bolten

    Catherine Bolten

    Professor

    • Anthropology

Partners

  • Conservation Society Sierra Leone
  • University of Makeni, Sierra Leone
  • Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
  • Kellogg Institute for International Studies
  • Poverty Studies Center