1/2-The West Africa-Michigan CHARTER II for GEOHealth-Ghana

1/2-西非-密歇根 GEOHealth-加纳宪章 II

• 批准号: 9766898
• 负责人: Julius N. Fobil
• 金额: $ 11.34万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-28 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9766898
• 关键词: Address; Africa; African; American; Applications Grants; Area; Burkina Faso; Canada; Central Africa; Collaborations; Community Developments; Community of Practice; Consultations; Country; Data Collection; Decision Making; Degree program; Discipline; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Elements; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Faculty; Funding; Ghana; Gold; Government; Grant; Health; Health Policy; Health Priorities; Health Services; Home environment; Informal Sectors; Information Resources; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; International; Ivory Coast; Knowledge; Lead; Leadership; Link; Manuscripts; Measures; Mentors; Methods; Michigan; Mining; Monitor; Occupational Health; Office of Administrative Management; Participant; Peer Review; Policies; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Process; Productivity; Protocols documentation; Publications; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Activity; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resource Allocation; Science; Senegal; Senior Scientist; South Africa; Statistical Methods; Technology; Time; Training; Training Programs; Transportation; Universities; Work; Writing; ambient air pollution; base; bilingualism; career; community based practice; curriculum development; design; doctoral student; experience; health practice; improved; improved outcome; innovation; member; multidisciplinary; policy implication; programs; public health relevance; research and development; research study; responsible research conduct; success; wasting

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of The West Africa-Michigan CHARTER II for GEOHealth is to build upon long- standing, extensive occupational and environmental health (OEH) research and training collaborations between academic and government partner institutions in Ghana, as well as other countries of West Africa (WA), and the University of Michigan (UM; lead of current U2R application) so as to sustainably enhance capacity for world-class scientific research and research training which address and inform key national and regional occupational and environmental health priorities and policies. We will leverage numerous existing strengths among consortium partners, who include the University of Ghana (UG; lead of linked U01 application, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the Ghanaian Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service (MOH/GHS), and UM to create a dynamic regional hub in EOH. A critical element for a truly regional strategy is to strengthen partnerships across Francophone and Anglophone countries in West Africa region. This is being achieved by strategically linking with the existing West African francophone-based Community of Practice in Eco-Health for West and Central Africa (COPEH-WCA) through their Ecohealth Chair based at the University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC) in Benin (also involved are Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Sénégal), which is funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), as well as through linking with McGill University (North American partner in a bilingual environment with long-standing history of OEH practice in West Africa). In addition, our program will benefit from the active input of key leaders from the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), who has extensive experience in working in close coordination with the program leadership at UM to build regional OEH capacity in the Southern African Development Community. Project management, ongoing evaluation, and key decision-making for the two closely linked U01 research and U2R research training grant, will reside with the Administrated Oversight Committee (AOC), which will include among its members representatives from the US (UM), Canada (McGill), Ghana (UG, KNUST, and MOH/GHS), Benin (UAC, also representing COPEH-WCA), and South Africa (UKZN). With a specific research activities (mainly exposure assessments) focused on OEH-threats associated with work activities in the informal sector (primary focus: electronic waste; secondary focus: small-scale gold mining and informal transportation-related ambient air pollution), the plan holds great promise of tangibly improving EOH-related research practice and training, and increasing scientific knowledge, and technical ability in Ghana, and, at the same time, improving prevailing products, processes, and policies to create outcomes of improved effectiveness, affordability, accessibility, and superior scalability throughout West Africa.

 说明（由申请人提供）：《西非-密歇根 GEOHealth 宪章 II》的总体目标是建立在加纳以及西非其他国家 (WA) 的学术和政府伙伴机构与密歇根大学（UM；当前 U2R 申请的牵头者）之间长期、广泛的职业和环境健康 (OEH) 研究和培训合作的基础上，以可持续地增强世界一流的科学研究和研究培训的能力，这些研究和培训解决和提供信息 国家和区域的主要职业和环境卫生优先事项和政策。我们将利用包括加纳大学（UG；链接 U01 应用程序的领导者、夸梅·恩克鲁玛科技大学 (KNUST)、加纳卫生部/加纳卫生服务局 (MOH/GHS) 和 UM 在内的联盟合作伙伴之间的众多现有优势，在 EOH 中创建一个充满活力的区域中心。真正的区域战略的一个关键要素是加强法语国家和英语国家之间的合作伙伴关系 西非地区。这是通过与现有的以西非法语国家为基础的西非和中非生态健康实践社区（COPEH-WCA）进行战略性联系来实现的，该社区的生态健康主席设在贝宁阿波美卡拉维大学（UAC）（也参与其中的是布基纳法索、科特迪瓦和塞内加尔），该社区由加拿大国际发展研究中心资助 (IDRC)，以及与麦吉尔大学（双语环境的北美合作伙伴，在西非 OEH 实践历史悠久）的联系。此外，我们的项目还将受益于夸祖鲁纳塔尔大学 (UKZN) 主要领导的积极投入，他们在与 UM 项目领导密切协调以建设南部非洲发展共同体的区域 OEH 能力方面拥有丰富的经验。项目管理、持续评估、 两个密切相关的 U01 研究和 U2R 研究培训拨款的关键决策将由管理监督委员会 (AOC) 负责，该委员会的成员包括来自美国 (UM)、加拿大 (麦吉尔)、加纳 (UG、KNUST 和 MOH/GHS)、贝宁 (UAC，也代表 COPEH-WCA) 和南非 (UKZN) 的代表。以特定研究活动（主要是暴露评估）为重点 关于与非正规部门工作活动相关的 OEH 威胁（主要重点：电子废物；次要重点：小规模金矿开采和非正规交通相关的环境空气污染），该计划有望切实改善 EOH 相关研究实践和培训，提高加纳的科学知识和技术能力，同时改进现行产品、流程和政策，以创造改善环境的成果。 整个西非的有效性、可负担性、可及性和卓越的可扩展性。