2/2 - Establishing a GEOHealth Hub Platform for East Africa - Ethiopia

申请者描述(由申请人提供)：美国南加州大学预防医学系和埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴大学公共卫生学院(AAU)的这两份配对申请的目标是采取关键的探索和规划步骤，为东非环境和职业健康方面的跨学科研究和培训建立一个中心。我们建议采用循证公共卫生的一般模式开展信息收集、联网和规划活动；包括收集证据、评估当前知识状况、确定关键不确定性、评估主要利益攸关方的活动以及清点培训、研究、政策和外联能力。我们专注于三个目标领域：即室内和室外空气质量、以农业为重点的职业健康和气候变化。在南加州大学和埃塞俄比亚大学在环境和职业健康方面的培训和研究活动方面丰富和互补的经验的基础上，这一伙伴关系将加强埃塞俄比亚各大学、政府机构和非政府组织正在进行的与环境和职业健康及环境科学有关的培训、研究和决策活动，包括卫生部、劳动和社会事务部 (MOLSA)、埃塞俄比亚环境保护局(EEPA)和其他埃塞俄比亚大学。该中心将通过设在非盟的非洲之角区域环境中心和网络(HOAREC/N)扩大其在整个区域的活动，HOAREC/N是这一应用程序的合作伙伴(包括我们的目标国家之一-肯尼亚)，并通过南加州大学的合作扩展到乌干达和卢旺达。通过非洲联盟发展研究学院(CDS)，将(I)通过社区创新平台和农业健康方面的直接广告开展外联活动，并(Ii)探索将适应气候变化纳入社区可持续发展计划的主流。

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.