Coordination Funds

协调基金

• 批准号: 427358138
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Ina Danquah, since 12/2021
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Heidelberger Institut für Global Health (HIGH)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/427358138?language=en
• 关键词: Coordination; Funds

The proposed Research Unit (RU) addresses the growing public health concern of accelerated disease burden as a consequence of climate change. So far, there have been very limited concerted efforts by public health scientists, climate change researchers, and social scientists to quantify the climate change impacts on human health. Even more so, the vulnerable populations in sub-Saharan Africa have been under-researched for this matter, despite the facts that rural populations in Africa are strongly affected by climate change and exhibit the lowest adaptive capacity. Indeed, this sub-continent faces an unfinished agenda of combatting undernutrition and infectious diseases with all the negative societal and economic consequences. At the same time, non-communicable conditions have been rapidly emerging in sub-Saharan Africa over the past decades, and their management now competes with the limited resources of the local health systems. To date, the additional impacts of climate change on three of these major health problems in the region, namely childhood undernutrition, malaria and cardio-vascular dysfunction from heat have been insufficiently defined. Therefore, this RU aims at i) establishing the causal pathways from weather changes through hydrological, agricultural and economic factors to undernutrition, malaria and heat stress among defined rural populations in Burkina Faso and Kenya, ii) projecting future developments along these pathways, iii) quantifying the effectiveness, the socio-economic costs, and the changes in projections of promising climate-specific adaptation strategies, iv) upscaling the historic and projected scenarios from the local to the national level, and finally, v) identifying broader societal impacts related to long-term health consequences of climate change. For the success of this RU, two German centers of scientific excellence in population health science and in climate change research have joined forces and partnered with expert academic institutions: The Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and their long-standing partners from Burkina Faso and Kenya offer the wide range of expert scientists needed from public health, nutrition, physiology, climate research, economics, and political science. This North-South network will meet the conceptual and technical challenges for better understanding the complex interplay between climate change, intermediate bio-physical factors and human health. Thereby, the proposed RU will provide essential knowledge for developing effective and efficient climate-specific adaptation strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. In a globalized world, such informed adaptation efforts will contribute to population health, societal wealth and political stability.

拟议的研究单位（RU）解决了气候变化导致的疾病负担加速的日益增长的公共卫生问题。到目前为止，公共卫生科学家、气候变化研究人员和社会科学家在量化气候变化对人类健康的影响方面的协同努力非常有限。更重要的是，尽管非洲农村人口受到气候变化的严重影响并且适应能力最低，但撒哈拉以南非洲的弱势群体在这方面的研究却不足。事实上，这个次大陆面临着一个未完成的议程，即消除营养不良和传染病，以及所有负面的社会和经济后果。与此同时，过去几十年来，非传染性疾病在撒哈拉以南非洲迅速出现，其管理工作现在与当地卫生系统的有限资源竞争。迄今为止，气候变化对本区域三个主要健康问题的额外影响，即儿童营养不良、疟疾和高温引起的心血管功能障碍，尚未得到充分界定。因此，本RU旨在：（一）在布基纳法索和肯尼亚确定的农村人口中，建立从天气变化到水文、农业和经济因素导致营养不良、疟疾和热应激的因果路径;（二）预测沿着这些路径的未来发展;（三）量化有希望的气候适应战略的有效性、社会经济成本和预测变化，iv）将历史和预测情景从地方一级提升到国家一级，最后，v）确定与气候变化的长期健康后果有关的更广泛的社会影响。为了这个RU的成功，两个在人口健康科学和气候变化研究方面的德国卓越科学中心已经联合起来，并与专家学术机构合作：海德堡全球健康研究所（HIGH）、波茨坦气候影响研究所（PIK）及其来自布基纳法索和肯尼亚的长期合作伙伴提供了公共卫生、营养、生理学、气候研究、经济学和政治学。这一南北网络将迎接概念和技术挑战，以更好地了解气候变化、中间生物物理因素和人类健康之间复杂的相互作用。因此，拟议的区域办事处将为撒哈拉以南非洲制定有效和高效的气候适应战略提供必要的知识。在一个全球化的世界中，这种知情的适应努力将有助于人口健康、社会财富和政治稳定。