HEALTHY FUTURES (Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa) was a cooperative project funded under the European Commission (EC)'s Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Africa-2010 call. It ran for four years, terminating at the end of 2014, and aimed to build capacity in risk mapping for three water-related high-impact vector-borne diseases (malaria, Rift valley fever, and schistosomiasis) in eastern Africa. Major outputs from the project are represented in the papers that make up this issue.

Guest Editors: David Taylor, Stefan Kienberger, Jack B. Malone, Adrian M. Tompkins