Children
Diarrhoeal disease, asymptomatic carriage and repeated infection during early life.
Flagship project
Enteric disease in Africa.
GETcampy and the Campylobacter Control Campaign connect One Health sampling, genomic epidemiology, modelling and prevention.
Project passport
Understanding exposure in connected human, animal and environmental systems.
The programme studies childhood enteric disease alongside asymptomatic carriage and relevant household, livestock, food, water and environmental sources.
GETcampy established coordinated protocols and genomic sampling. CCC expands that foundation towards population annotation, source attribution, intervention modelling, training and prevention.
West AfricaChild healthOne HealthCampylobacter
Study system
Sampling the routes through which children encounter enteric bacteria.
Households
Family members, surfaces, food preparation and shared environmental exposures.
Animals and food
Poultry and livestock populations embedded in local production and household systems.
Water and environment
Potential routes that connect otherwise separate host populations.
Leadership and funding
Built through successive collaborative programmes.
The Campylobacter Control Campaign is led by Professor Sam Sheppard and builds on the GETcampy-Africa programme.
Programme acknowledgements
Programme PI: Sam Sheppard, University of Oxford
Current major support: Wellcome
Foundation programme: MRC GETcampy-Africa
Open infrastructure
Protocols and population annotation are research outputs.
Shared laboratory and sequencing procedures support comparison across sites. Open nomenclature and linked metadata are intended to make bacterial populations interpretable across studies, outbreaks and surveillance systems.