September 2013

Survey launched to help improve family health

Traveling by bicycle, community interviewers visit homes in Asembo, Kenya, to learn how animal and human disease impacts a family’s health, access to education, and economic well-being. They will visit more than 1,400 households four times each year over several years to ask about their nutrition, family members’ health, household assets, and health of their animals. They collect the data on a handheld computer, or PDA, so that it can be sent back to Pullman the next day for analysis.

The goal is to reduce poverty and hunger and improve health and education.

Two Kenyan community volunteers standing in a field conducting the interview with a Kenyan woman.