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建立在加纳学术和政府伙伴机构与密歇根大学之间现有的广泛的职业和环境卫生（OEH）研究和培训合作的基础上，以便加强科学研究、研究培训和课程活动的能力，以解决和通报国家职业和环境卫生的关键优先事项和政策。为此，我们建议提高加纳的能力，使其成为西非职业和环境卫生的区域全球健康中心。主要活动包括对加纳和西非的职业健康卫生需求和机会进行评估，学术规划和课程发展讲习班，以确定区域学术需求，确定职业健康卫生优先研究领域，以及参与者评价。拟议的活动将利用包括密歇根大学（UM）、加纳大学（UG）、夸梅·恩克鲁玛科技大学（KNUST）和加纳卫生部在内的众多财团合作伙伴之间已有的优势

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.