healthRiskADAPT - User-driven Health risk Assessment Services and Innovative ADAPTation options against Threats from Heatwaves, Air Pollution, Wildfire Emission and Pollen

Transformative adaptation is gaining recognition as the appropriate response to climate change as the current adaptive measures reach their limits. In addressing health risks associated with heat waves, air pollution, wildfire emission and pollen, the implementation of comprehensive transformative…

01.11.2024 - 31.10.2028
Research project
European Commission (EU) / Horizon Europe
Bayesian Modeling and Analysis
Penelope Vounatsou
Preventing Pandemics in the CEMAC region

The German Ministry Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation is interested in investing through KfW in a future project which aims to strengthen pandemic prevention capacities in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), by reducing the negative impact of…

15.10.2024 - 30.09.2025
Long term service project
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
Swiss Centre for International Health
Kaspar Wyss
ICS-West Africa - Institutional Capacity Strengthening for Health Research Partnerships between Switzerland and West Africa

This institutional capacity strengthening approach of the triangular research management consortium aims at developing a cross-institutional framework with standardized procedures and training of trainers, to be consolidated to the three applicant institutions in the first instance. In a second…

01.09.2024 - 31.08.2028
Research project
Velux Stiftung
Project and Grant Unit
Michael Käser
Roadmap Evaluation - Evaluation of the contribution of Fundación Anesvad to the WHO Road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021-2030

The WHO framework for integrated control and management of skin-related NTDs provides a people-centred integrated approach to reduce the morbidity, disability and psychosocial impact of skin NTDs. It defines 20 skin NTD-specific targets and indicators, some of which overlap with the 22…

01.09.2024 - 31.12.2024
Short term service project
Anesvad
Diseases and Programmes
Peter Steinmann
EPCL - Enhancing palliative care in Lao PDR: Addressing the unmet need

Palliative care is a fundamental right that allows people with cancer to die with dignity and without unnecessary suffering. Health and social systems should fulfill the fundamental right to die with dignity and without avoidable suffering, regardless of geographic location or socioeconomic status.…

01.08.2024 - 31.07.2027
Research project
Krebsforschung Schweiz
Household Economics and Health Systems Research
Daniel Cobos Muñoz
RESIST - Resistance Evaluation and Surveillance Initiative for Schistosomiasis Treatment (RESIST)

Zanzibar has an impressive track record implementing mass drug administration (MDA) with praziquantel (PZQ) against Schistosoma haematobium infections since the 1980s, achieving elimination of schistosomiasis as a public health problem in most areas, with a possibility of interruption of…

22.07.2024 - 21.07.2027
Observational study, Intervention Study
Wellcome Trust
Helminth Drug Development
Stefanie Knopp
POCC - Resilience to climate change and natural hazards in Philippine jails

The Philippines, one of the world's most disaster-prone countries, frequently faces environmental and climate disasters such as heat waves, floods, droughts, typhoons, landslides, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, with climate change worsening these extreme events. Prisons and jails in the…

22.07.2024 - 01.11.2024
Short term service project
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Diseases and Programmes
Astrid Knoblauch
PTCS - Contribute to the promotion of social protection and decent work through support for mutual health organisations in Burkina Faso

To meet the challenges of climate change and land degradation in the Sahel, Enabel, with funding from the Kingdom of Belgium, is implementing the Sahel Regional Thematic Climate Portfolio (PTCS) in four countries (Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger and Mali) for a period of 05 years (2022-2026). The…

19.07.2024 - 18.12.2025
Short term service project
Enabel: Agence Belge de Développement, Team Burkina Faso
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Damien Revault
PREPAS - Diagnostic Study of Mixed Health - One Health

Chad's healthcare system faces significant challenges due to recurring health crises, limited resources, and the impacts of climate change, particularly in its rural and pastoral regions. The Sahel's low annual rainfall of 250-500 mm limits agricultural production, positioning pastoralism as the…

01.07.2024 - 30.04.2025
Long term service project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Systems Strengthening and Health Promotion
Damien Revault
Stakeholder mapping in Rwanda's Nutrition and Food Systems

Given the complexity of the actors operating and delivering on nutrition outcomes, and engaging and participating in the government decision-making processes related to Food Systems we are undertaking an analytical mapping of the actors involved in nutrition and food system in Rwanda. Through this…

18.06.2024 - 30.11.2024
Short term service project
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
Swiss Centre for International Health
Cornelia Speich