Directly after the first annual HARMONIZE meeting in Bogotà, a group of HARMONIZE team members, including Rachel Lowe and Raquel Martins Lana (BSC, Spain), Maurício Santos-Vega, María Galvis and Felipe Aramburo (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), and Cláudia Torres Codeço (Fiocruz, Brazil) travelled to the Colombian Andes hotspot in the state of Tolima. The specific objectives of the campaign were:

1) meet the health sector professionals at the Department of Health located in Ibagué, the capital of Tolima,

2) engage with local communities in Ibagué, El Espinal, Charco Azul, Rovira and Cañon de Combeima,

3) install a weather station in an ecological reserve and conduct drone flights in the different municipalities and 4) obtain footage for a short documentary film to help disseminate HARMONIZE activities.

The team was also accompanied by Jason Brooks, a filmmaker from Spirited Pictures, and Guillermo Alejandro Botero, a drone expert from Drone Solutions.

Potential mosquito breeding site.

First meteorological station installed at the Don Hernán Galego farm at the ecological reserve. 

Mauricio Santos is interviewed about

 the HARMONIZE project at the Cañon de Combeima. 

A water reservoir in a Rovira home with mosquito larvae. 

Setting up the drone by Felipe Aramburo (PhD student from the Universidad de los Andes).

Conducting the flights by Felipe Aramburo (PhD student from the Universidad de los Andes).