Regional Workshop on Establishing a GEOHealth Hub Platform for East Africa
Regional Workshop on Planning for the Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) Hub for Interdisciplinary Research and Training Project held in Kampala. Training sessions, needs assessment, research dissemination strategies, tailored courses, and stakeholder engagement discussed.
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Regional Workshop on Planning for the Regional Workshop on Planning for the Global Environmental and Occupational Global Environmental and Occupational Health ( Health (GEOHealth GEOHealth) Hub for Interdisciplinary ) Hub for Interdisciplinary Research and Training Project: Establishing a Research and Training Project: Establishing a GEOHealth GEOHealth Hub Platform for East Africa Hub Platform for East Africa 22ndApril 2015 at Sheraton Kampala Hotel Break out Session
Training group James Mwitari Prof John Samet Namanya Didas Rukia Kalanzi Abera Kumie Kenya USC Uganda Uganda Ethiopia Chair Rapporteur
Type of training Type of training Initial step: Needs assessment might be needed Air pollution OSH Climate change
Type of training Type of training Internal to the hub Research training to the academia How to friendly disseminate and communicate research findings to policy makers How to formulate policy briefs to the local people and policy makers
Type of training: external to the hub Type of training: external to the hub Tailored courses: for one week on the three areas of GEOHealth Curriculum development for short courses Graduate training on climate change, air pollution, and OSH Training on the use of equipment for both monitoring air, lung function, noise pollution, audiometry, ,, Modelling and simulation of climate change Attaching a trainee person to an academia for skill learning
Mode of training Mode of training Online Tailored short courses (In-service training)
Targets of training Stakeholders: Universities, Government-policy makers Policy implementers NGOs, media experts, Funding Models The trainee contribution after advertisement of short courses Getting additional funds: Grant application to decentralize equipment's to measure air pollution and OSH related parameters
