Health

Improving milk and chicken meat quality and safety in the Kenyan food sector (QUALIFOOD)

Research project Final grant amount TBA Climate change augment antimicrobial resistant infections and affects the rate at which microbes acquire resistance, and if not dealt with, 10 million people is estimated to die globally by 2050 due to resistant bacteria. ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Kenya Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Ministry of Health, Kenya Kenya Dairy Board (KDB), Kenya Rigshospitalet (RH), Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Project code: 24-M03-KU

Mitigating emerging climate-sensitive disease vectors amongst internally displaced communities in Somaliland

Research project East Africa has experienced years of serious droughts exacerbated by the climate crisis. In Somaliland, due to climate change and the worst drought seen in 40 years, the magnitude of internally displaced people (IDP) fleeing from the drought has led ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Somalia (incl. Somaliland) Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI), Somaliland University of Hargeisa (UOH), Somaliland Project code: 24-02-KU Total grant: 10,393,256 DKK

Promoting Climate Change Adaptation in a context of multiple crises in Burkina Faso: The role of civil servants

Research project Final grant amount TBA The project aims at identifying and studying the potentialities for the civil servants to promote climate change adaptation and sustainable development within a context of overlapping crises. The climate crisis affects the ...

Period: 2024-04-1 to 2029-03-31 Countries: Burkina Faso Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University Joseph KI-Zerbo (UJKZ), Burkina Faso Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Burkina Faso École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France Project code: 24-03-KU

Pregnancy in the context of climate change: Co-creating climate-responsive antenatal care for urban Tanzania (the CC-ANC Project)

Research project Antenatal care (ANC), which pregnant women are recommended to obtain from trained health professionals, offers multiple opportunities to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). However, Sub-Saharan African (SSA) women continue to fa ...

Period: 2023-10-1 to 2028-09-30 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Aga Khan University (AKU), Tanzania Project code: 23-11-KU Total grant: 9,999,991 DKK

Climate influence on zoonoses at human-livestock-wildlife interfaces in the transboundary region between Kenya and Tanzania (ENHANCE)

Research project Climate change is arguably the most important global environmental challenge. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected, particularly rural communities that are very reliant on natural resources. Wildlife, humans and li ...

Period: 2023-10-1 to 2028-09-30 Countries: Kenya Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Aarhus University (AU), Denmark University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya Project code: 23-05-KU Total grant: 10,349,805 DKK

Climate Change, Migration, Health and Hygiene – Adapting to a WATer-SCARCE future WatScarce

Research project The UN estimates that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in places with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be facing water stress. This lack of water is likely to cause an increase in diarrhoeal and respiratory ...

Period: 2023-06-1 to 2028-05-31 Countries: Bangladesh Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Dhaka (DU), Bangladesh International Centre for Diarrhoea Disease Research (ICDDR), Bangladesh Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), Bangladesh Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States of America Project code: 23-14-KU Total grant: 9,999,948 DKK

Improving treatment of malnutrition to support child development in the context of climate change: the BrightSAM study

Research project Almost half of the World Food Programme’s emergency operations are now in response to climate-related disasters. Child malnutrition is a major consequence of climate change threatening health and development in low-income countries. Every year, 15 mi ...

Period: 2023-06-1 to 2028-05-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: Rigshospitalet (RH), Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark Partner institutions: National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Tanzania Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Bugando Medical Center, Tanzania University of Liverpool, United Kingdom University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark BetterGreen, Denmark Project code: 23-13-RH Total grant: 10,000,000 DKK

Climate Change and its Adverse Effects on the double burden of Malnutrition and Infectious Diseases among women of reproductive age in Tanzania

Research project In this project, we seek to explore and identify high-risk mothers for tailored management to alleviate the impact of climate change on reproductive health in rural Tanzania. The relationship between climate change, food availability, malnutrition, m ...

Period: 2023-06-1 to 2028-05-31 Countries: Tanzania Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), Tanzania Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUC), Tanzania Joint Malaria Programme (JMP), Tanzania Project code: 23-10-KU Total grant: 9,999,520 DKK

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