Natasha has been awarded a mid-career ARC Future Fellowship, enabling her to conduct four years of research on ‘A Multispecies Anthropological Approach to Influenza’. She is part of an ARC Discovery team with a focus on 'Mongolian Medicine: different modes of multispecies knowledge transmission', which is an extension of previous Mongolia-based field research examining multispecies medicine used by herding communities in the Khangai Mountains. Natasha observes how herders apply preventative practices and medicinal techniques across species, treating family members and different species of herd animal. The ultimate aim of this cross-species, pluralistic approach to medicine is to inform the discussion surrounding One Health, conservation and natural and cultural heritage, where concepts and ideas from mobile pastoral techniques, veterinary medicine and rangeland ecology are integrated to provide a holistic perspective on respiratory illnesses across domestic and wild animals.
