I have had the pleasure to conduct research in Kibale National Park, Uganda, for 34+ years, where I focus on the roles that disease, nutrition, stress, and climate change play in determining primate abundance, while also exploring how to best to conserve the world's biodiversity.
One conservation approach that I have found to be especially rewarding is to promote conservation action by helping the local communities around Kibale. Some examples of this approach include building a health and conservation clinic that provides subsidized health care and education to residents, establishing a mobile version of that clinic, helping to build two field stations, and establishing chimpanzee and crater lake ecotourism. I am also passionate about training the next generation of conservation scientists, currently, I am concentrating my training efforts on Ugandan conservation scientists.