1/2-The West Africa-Michigan CHARTER for GEOHealth: USA

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案的总体目标是建立在加纳学术和政府合作机构与密歇根大学（UM）之间现有的广泛的职业和环境健康（OEH）研究和培训合作的基础上，以提高科学研究、研究培训和课程活动的能力，以解决和告知国家关键的职业和环境健康优先事项和政策。为此，我们建议提高加纳的能力，使其成为西非职业和环境健康区域 GEOHealth 中心。主要活动包括加纳和西非的 OEH 需求和机会评估、学术规划和课程开发研讨会以确定区域学术需求、确定 OEH 优先研究领域以及参与者评估。拟议的活动将利用联盟合作伙伴之间的众多现有优势，包括密歇根大学（UM）、加纳大学（UG）、夸梅·恩克鲁玛科技大学（KNUST）和加纳卫生部/ 加纳卫生服务局 (MOH/GHS)。此外，这一新提出的西非区域战略将借鉴南非主要学术机构开普敦大学和夸祖鲁纳塔尔大学的长期经验，这些机构与密歇根大学密切合作，在南部非洲发展共同体建立区域职业健康和卫生能力。 与公众健康的相关性：拟议的活动预计将促成关于创建位于加纳的西非职业和环境健康区域中心的详细规划和区域共识。为此，拟议的活动将进一步加强加纳和区域学术和政府机构进行环境和职业健康科学研究和教育培训的能力，并为国家职业和环境健康重点优先事项和政策提供信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of this proposal is to build upon existing and extensive occupational and environmental health (OEH) research and training collaborations between academic and government partner institutions in Ghana and the University of Michigan (UM) in order to enhance capacity for scientific research, research training, and curricular activities that address and inform key national occupational and environmental health priorities and policies. In doing so, we propose to increase capacity in Ghana to serve as a regional, GEOHealth Hub of occupational and environmental health in West Africa. Key activities include a needs and opportunities assessment on OEH in Ghana and West Africa, academic planning and curriculum development workshops to determine regional academic needs, identification of priority OEH areas of research, and participant evaluation. The proposed activities will leverage numerous pre-existing strengths among consortium partners that include the University of Michigan (UM), the University of Ghana (UG), the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and the Ghanaian Ministry of Health/ Ghana Health Service (MOH/GHS). In addition, this newly proposed regional strategy in West Africa will be informed by the long experience of key academic institutions in South Africa, the University of Cape Town and the University of KwaZulu Natal, of working in close coordination with UM to build regional OEH capacity in the Southern African Development Community. RELEVANCE TO PUBLIC HEALTH: The proposed activities are expected to result in detailed planning and regional consensus on creation of a Ghana-based West African regional hub of occupational and environmental health. In doing so the proposed activities will further strengthen the capacity of Ghanaian and regional academic and governmental institutions to conduct environmental and occupational health scientific research and educational training, and inform key national occupational and environmental health priorities and policies.