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

 描述（由申请人提供）：西非-密歇根州地球健康宪章II的总体目标是建立在加纳学术和政府伙伴机构以及西非其他国家（WA）和密歇根大学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（UM;目前U2 R应用的领导者），以可持续地提高世界级科学研究和研究培训的能力，解决并通报关键的国家和区域职业和环境卫生优先事项和政策。我们将利用联盟合作伙伴之间的众多现有优势，包括加纳大学（UG; U 01申请的领导者，Kwame Nkrumah科技大学（KNUST），加纳卫生部/加纳卫生服务部（MOH/GHS）和UM，以创建EOH的动态区域中心。一项真正的区域战略的一个关键要素是加强西非区域法语国家和英语国家之间的伙伴关系。目前正在通过与现有的西非法语国家西非和中非生态卫生同业交流圈建立战略联系来实现这一目标（COPEH-WCA）通过其设在贝宁阿波美-卡拉维大学（UAC）的生态健康教席（布基纳法索、科特迪瓦和塞内加尔也参与其中），该项目由加拿大国际发展研究中心（IDRC）资助，以及通过与麦吉尔大学（北美合作伙伴，在西非拥有长期的OEH实践历史的双语环境）的联系。此外，我们的计划将受益于来自夸祖鲁纳塔尔（UKZN），谁在与UM的方案领导密切合作，以建立在南部非洲发展共同体区域OEH能力工作的丰富经验大学的主要领导人的积极投入。U 01研究和U2 R研究培训补助金这两个密切相关的项目管理、持续评估和关键决策将由行政监督委员会（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。具有特定的研究活动（主要是暴露评估）侧重于与非正规部门工作活动有关的OEH威胁（主要关注点：电子废物;次要关注点：小规模金矿开采和与非正规运输有关的环境空气污染），该计划在切实改善与EOH有关的研究实践和培训，增加加纳的科学知识和技术能力方面前景广阔，与此同时，改进现有的产品、流程和政策，以在整个西非创造更有效、可负担、可获得和上级可扩展性的成果。

 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.