1/2 - Establishing a GEOHealth Hub Platform for East Africa - USA

1/2 - 为东非建立 GEOHealth Hub 平台 - 美国

• 批准号: 8441170
• 负责人: Kiros T Berhane
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-22 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8441170
• 关键词: Address; Africa; African; Agriculture; Air; Area; California; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Country; Development; Development Plans; Djibouti; Ecology; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Elements; Environment; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Health; Environmental Protection; Equipment and supply inventories; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Goals; Grant; Health; Horns; Immersion Investigative Technique; Interdisciplinary Study; Kenya; Knowledge; Lead; Low income; Mainstreaming; Malnutrition; Medical; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Health; Policies; Policy Making; Policy Research; Pollution; Poverty; Preventive; Preventive Medicine; Principal Investigator; Process; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Research; Research Activity; Research Training; Role; Rwanda; Schools; Scientist; Series; Solutions; Somalia; Sudan; Surveys; Sustainable Development; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Translating; Uganda; Uncertainty; Universities; Visit; Work; authority; base; burden of illness; climate change; college; cost effective; evidence base; experience; global environment; global health; information gathering; innovation; occupational hazard; outreach; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): These paired applications from the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), USA, and the School of Public Health of Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia, a low income African country, have the goal of taking crucial exploratory and planning steps towards establishing a hub for interdisciplinary research and training in environmental and occupational health for East Africa. We propose to carry out information-gathering, networking, and planning activities using an approach that follows the general paradigm of evidence-based public health; involving evidence gathering, evaluation of current state of knowledge, identification of critical uncertainties, assessment of activities of key stakeholders, and an inventory of training, research, policy and outreach capacity. We focus on three targeted areas; namely, indoor and outdoor air quality, occupational health with emphasis on agriculture, and climate change. Building on the rich and complementary experiences of USC and AAU in training and research activities in environmental and occupational health, this partnership will strengthen the ongoing training, research and policy-making activities related to environmental and occupational health and environmental sciences at various schools of AAU, governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ethiopia, including the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA), Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EEPA), and other Ethiopian Universities. The hub will broaden its activities across the region through the AAU-based Horn of Africa Regional Environment Center and Network (HOAREC/N), a partner in this application (which includes one of our targeted countries - Kenya), and to Uganda and Rwanda through USC collaborations. Through the College of Development Studies (CDS) at AAU, will (i) pursue outreach activities through community innovation platforms and ads straight in agricultural health, and also (ii) explore mainstreaming adaption to climate change into sustainable development plan at the community level. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The burden of disease from environmental and occupational hazards and climate change are of growing concern in East Africa, a region already facing challenges of malnutrition, poverty, and infectious diseases. To tackle these challenges, a comprehensive planning process involving information gathering and synthesis, and networking will be undertaken by a multi-disciplinary team from the US, Ethiopia and other East African countries towards the eventual establishment of a GEOHealth Hub for Fast Africa.

描述（由申请人提供）：来自南加州大学（USC）的预防医学系的这些配对申请，以及亚的斯亚贝巴大学（AAU）的公共卫生学院，埃塞俄比亚是一个低收入的非洲国家，其目的是为了建立跨学科研究和培训的互联网培训，以对环境和培训进行互联网培训，以实现重要的探索和计划步骤。我们建议使用遵循循证公共卫生的一般范式的方法进行信息收集，网络和计划活动；涉及收集证据，对当前知识状态的评估，批判不确定性的识别，主要利益相关者活动的评估以及培训，研究，政策和外展能力的清单。我们专注于三个目标领域；即室内和室外空气质量，职业健康，重点是农业以及气候变化。 Building on the rich and complementary experiences of USC and AAU in training and research activities in environmental and occupational health, this partnership will strengthen the ongoing training, research and policy-making activities related to environmental and occupational health and environmental sciences at various schools of AAU, governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ethiopia, including the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs （MOLSA），埃塞俄比亚环境保护局（EEPA）和其他埃塞俄比亚大学。该枢纽将通过总部位于AAU的非洲区域环境中心和网络（HOAREC/N），本申请中的合作伙伴（包括我们目标国家之一 - 肯尼亚）以及通过USC合作来扩展其在整个地区的活动。通过AAU开发研究学院（CD），（i）通过社区创新平台和广告在农业健康方面进行外展活动，以及（ii）探索对气候变化的主流改编，以在社区层面对可持续发展计划进行主流。 公共卫生相关性：在东非，环境和职业危害以及气候变化的疾病负担在东非越来越关注，东非已经面临营养不良，贫困和传染病的挑战。 为了应对这些挑战，涉及信息收集和综合的综合计划过程以及联网将由美国，埃塞俄比亚和其他东非国家的多学科团队进行，以最终为非洲快速建立地球卫生枢纽。