Animals to humans: how culture impacts infectious disease
About the event
When outbreaks of infectious diseases strike, one obvious solution is to increase health education. But lack of education is only one of many factors contributing to the issue.
Join Dr. Kariuki Njenga, Country Director of the Washington State University Global Health Program – Kenya, for a close look at zoonotic illnesses: diseases that can pass between animals and humans. Dr. Njenga will discuss his work in sub-Sahran Africa investigating zoonotic diseases, and his surprising findings that suggest a region’s own culture and the occupation of its people – NOT a lack of health education – contribute most to these outbreaks.