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Meet Mildred Bembo Harris

In a recent interview, STOP Spillover’s Liberia Country Team Lead Mildred Bembo Harris discussed what she sees as the biggest challenges to stopping future spillovers, outbreaks, and pandemics in Liberia and across the globe.

“The STOP Spillover consortium collaborates and maintains partnerships with One Health partners and communities who have done significant work in Liberia already. We will listen to their voices in identifying our priorities and our work plans. Our goal is to form synergies where possible and forge strong partnerships, identify gaps related to viral pathogens, and to avoid duplication in a very resource-constrained country.”

Project Update

Now Stopping Spillover in Sierra Leone

STOP Spillover is working in countries at high risk for the emergence and re-emergence of known zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential, directly at suspected spillover locations – places where zoonotic viruses are likely to make the jump from animals to humans. In its first year, STOP Spillover began work in five countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Liberia, Uganda, and Viet Nam).

This month, we’re beginning our work in Sierra Leone and are pleased to welcome Abu-Bakar Massaquoi as our Sierra Leone Country Team Lead – a researcher, lecturer and development professional with 13 years of local and international development experience. Watch this space for more about our work in Sierra Leone.

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New Videos from SEAOHUN and AFROHUN

In two new videos STOP Spillover’s partners, Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) and Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN), explain their core missions and their ongoing work to advance One Health.

Meet Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. HOT enables communities, NGOs, international organizations, and government partners to use and contribute to OpenStreetMap.

As a partner of STOP Spillover, HOT works with other consortium members and country teams to incorporate geospatial technology into interventions to better understand public health risks and surveillance activities. HOT will work together with STOP Spillover and local communities to fill in spatial data gaps in the regions of interventions and to map human-animal interfaces to better monitor potential spillover points.

“Through STOP Spillover’s partnership with HOT, more community members will be able to map their communities and track important data on the ground to help prevent future spillovers and pandemics,” said Jessie Pechmann, Global GIS Manager at HOT.