Updates from the field: January - March 2020

During this time, the field team was hard at work sampling urban participants in Laikipia County, specifically in the towns of Nanyuki, Rumuruti, Ol Jogi, and Kinamba. They were able to sample around 50 participants per location. Data and samples from urban Turkana residents will be an important contrast to data and samples we have already collected from traditional pastoralists living in the remote desert regions of Turkana county.

Laikipia county is a densely populated area in central Kenya, outlined on the map in red.

A bustling street in Nanyuki, one of our urban sampling locations in Laikipia county.