In collaboration with the De Leo Lab at Stanford University we developed a tool to incorporate schistosomiasis risk into dam and water infrastructure development decisions. This work is based on the Walz et al. 2015 paper with additional contributions by Andy Chamberlain and Guilio De Leo from the De Leo Lab, and Lisa Mandle and Doug Denu from the Natural Capital Project.
Add info here about the schistosomiasis model, inputs, calculating risk. Essentially could be the user guide section.
Currently, plugins for InVEST is still under active development. A fork of InVEST has been created to specifically support running the schisto plugin ([schisto-invest]](https://github.com/natcap/schistosomiasis-invest)). In the future this plugin will be run directly in InVEST.
Download schist-invest: [a link to download invest]
Install plugin into schisto-invest With the schistosomiasis InVEST version installed and open, select "Manage Plugins" in the top right. Copy the git url into the "Add a plugin" field and select "Add". For this plugin the url would be: https://github.com/natcap/schistosomiasis.
The plugin will take several minutes to install, between 5-10 minutes. Once the plugin is installed a new "Schistosomiasis" model option will appear in the home list of models, with a "plugin" badge next to it. Select this to run the schistosomiasis model.
The core of the model lives in src/natcap/invest/schistosomiasis.py.