1. Wildlife-Livestock-Human EcoHealth Research and Health Monitoring.
1. Establishment of interdisciplinary consortium of local and international scientists to build capacity for the detection and epidemiological investigation of emerging diseases at wildlife / human interface in the Albertine biodiversity hotspots. This will be achieved through a work program, investigates disease prevalence in indigenous populations at sites with different levels of habitat disturbance.  Hence, establishment of EcoHealth  Research Group as major arm to implement all research programs.


2. Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. The program's focus is on both the discovery, and the building and testing models that expound these principles and processes. Research proposals should focus on understanding the determinants of transmission of diseases to humans, non-human primates, other wildlife, or plants; the spread of pathogens by environmental factors, vectors or a biotic agents; the population dynamics and genetics of reservoir species or alternate hosts; or the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of disease transmission.


3. Capacity building at different levels from local community to university graduates through trainings, documentation, and diagnostics as well as assessment of local treatment strategies and low cost-interventions will be important milestones in a fruitful collaboration between our partner-institutions.


4. Establish research satellite centers in Hoima and Masindi for proper coordination, information sharing, sample collection and storage.


5. Extension of these programs to other National Parks/Forest Reserves within and outside Uganda

2. Chimpanzee Health Monitoring and other wildlife in fragmented private forests between Budongo Forest Reserve and Bugoma Forest Reserve and other chimpanzee sites including protected areas

• Establish a continuous health monitoring program of endangered chimpanzee population in private forest communities and other wildlife while incorporating a community health program.


• Consolidate efforts from other organizations of chimpanzee health monitoring  existing in habituated research/tourist chimpanzee groups within protected national/forest reserves in the Albertine  Ecosystem into a national systematic health monitoring system

3. Conservation and Ecosystem Health Assessments
4. Conservation Health Education in the study locations
5. Promote and integrate Population, Health, and Environmental concepts towards enhancement of community livelihoods and health with linkages to conservation.