Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance

A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020) exposes Africa’s nomadic pastoralist communities as a ‘blind spot’ in global health surveillance, elaborates on the ways in which current health surveillance infrastructure is ill-equipped to capture pastoralist populations and the animals with which they coexist, and highlights the consequential risks of inadequate surveillance among pastoralists and their livestock to global health.