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

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案的总体目标是在加纳和密歇根大学(UM)学术和政府合作机构之间现有的和广泛的职业和环境健康(OEH)研究和培训合作的基础上，提高科学研究、研究培训和课程活动的能力，这些活动旨在解决和宣传国家关键的职业和环境健康优先事项和政策。为此，我们建议增加加纳的能力，使其成为西非职业和环境健康的区域地理健康中心。主要活动包括对加纳和西非的牛津卫生研究院的需求和机会进行评估，为确定区域学术需求而举办的学术规划和课程开发讲习班，确定优先的牛津卫生保健研究领域，以及参与者评估。拟议的活动将利用财团伙伴之间的许多先前存在的优势，包括密歇根大学(UM)、加纳大学(UG)、夸梅·恩克鲁马科技大学(Knust)和加纳卫生部/ 加纳卫生服务(卫生部/全球卫生服务体系)。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，即与曼彻斯特大学密切协调，在南部非洲发展共同体建设区域原生环境卫生能力。 与公共卫生的相关性：预计拟议的活动将产生详细的规划和区域共识，以创建一个设在加纳的西非职业和环境健康区域中心。通过这样做，拟议的活动将进一步加强加纳和区域学术和政府机构开展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的关键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.