 Good evening, everyone. My name is Caroline Kimani. I am an alumnus of the One Health training demo sites. Thank you. I am also a postgraduate students at the University of Nairobi, taking MSc in range management. I am glad to present to you my experiences learning and working in the One Health framework. Thank you. So let me just start by saying that as a child, my dream was to become a neurosurgeon. So clearly that didn't happen because you can see I'm in sociology. But One Health has brought me close enough. So I'm grateful for that anyway. So up until the One Health training demo site, the demo site is a training, a pre-workforce training where students are trained for one week in theory and then there's a field training for a couple of three or so weeks. So up until then I thought One Health was a preserve of vets. Yeah. And it was not until from the members of the students One Health Innovations Club that I learned that I was, I could apply for the demo site training and so I jumped at the opportunity. I was privileged to be among the pre-workforce trainees and the demo site happened in southern Kenya in the Ambos Ali ecosystem. And as you can see some of the trainees went through was one participatory approaches. So what you see there is a lot of community engagement which started with the colder mapping and just a needs assessment of community challenges through tools such as proportional piling and prioritizing the needs of the community as presented by them. And we were a very diverse range of professions in the training, which also opened my mind to how interconnected we are. And it is clear that you can always point to any challenge there is globally. And this points the problem of a lack of multi sectoral multi disciplinary approach. And so One Health really brought me to breaking the perspective of being a hardcore ecologist, with no interactions from other professions, and also just the role of socio ecology in in One Health, or in the health sector. So, yes, we identified needs, and then we together also with the community, we prioritized identified possible interventions, and also means in which to address some of those, some of those are challenges but forward and a couple of them while a human conflict, diseases such as diarrhea, and in our, in our community, we prioritized the diarrhoea diseases, because of open defecation, after doing a root cause analysis it was identified that open defecation was the priority of the outreach, and therefore we came up with community outreach programs to just dedicate the community on on healthier practices. And, as you can see from the images. This was some of the, just some of the tools, I would say we used to, to bring the message to the community. The first image is, is a skit, just explaining to the community how these diseases would spread. And the second is how the, the cycle of pathogens in diarrhoea diseases. As you can see the community were really interested and fascinated by just the images we were showing them. And it was also a really eye opening experience for each one of us. So the one sitting in a court is a nurse, and the one I am in pink, and the one holding me is a public health practitioner. Yes. We were able to, through various platforms, just spread, or share information or the trainings we have gathered through the demo site experience. And one is a nurses, the international nurses conference in 2019. And also were able to share to an audience of young people through TV, just share on the one hand approaches and zoonotic diseases, and the interplay and interlinkages of all the, all the professions, when it comes to health challenges. And it was pretty interesting. I mean, I never thought I would be able to attend a nurse, nurses conference, and they were also really fascinated to have an ecologist. And some of the key lessons, the multidisciplinary approach, and the need to have various professions in, in carrying out community interventions. And this has the learnings from the demo site have been crucial for me. It is true also the demo site experience that I developed my concept for my master's research project, and it came up with the research on human elephant conflict. And I also carried it out in the same place where we had the demo site. So the networks there were really important. And through that I was also able to get a grant. And later I am still, I'm still in touch with the various professions that I was able to come into contact with. And so it has also taught me to, to how to develop a wide network of professions and not just in ecology or environment, and whatnot. And also systems thinking, taking a systems approach to every challenge, and not just like in my case not just think the environmental way, and so on, but to, to think really not just in parts but in systems, and also how interconnected we are. And I don't think this, this can be emphasized anymore, especially with COVID. I think we have all seen how interconnected we are. And yes, sharing information freely between various professions and breaking silos. This is also a key lesson. And this was some of the equal health challenges, which I've seen have been mentioned. And these are, these are great global crisis of our times like biodiversity loss, land use, wildlife habitat encroachment climate change food systems. And this is important for one health to continually keep aligning to these environmental challenges. And with that I would like to conclude with a quote from the earth chatter, which I think is, which I personally love. And I think reminds me of also one health that we stand at a critical moment in ads history. Humanity must choose its future, as the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, and the future at once holds great burial in great promise. I don't think there has ever been a more appropriate time when one health approaches should be implemented than now. Thank you.