Research projects
Overall aim: To examine newborn hospital mortality in South Vietnam in order to design intervention studies to be conducted in the next project phase. The studies are conducted in a tertiary…
Pediatric Hospital No 1, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Mr Gorm Greisen, former head of Deptm Neonatolgy, Rigshospitalet, Vietnam
Total grant: 1,901,942
The overall objective of the research project is to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between labour market regulation, wages and employment. The project is based mostly on…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (KU), Department of Economics (KU)
Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) , Vietnam, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Vietnam
Total grant: 2,213,228
The project is an investigation into the lives, futures, and military livelihood strategies of a generation of war-affected youth in Acholiland on the Uganda/Sudan border. Due to ongoing peace talks…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (KU), Department of Antropology (KU)
Total grant: 2,146,713
The study aims to examine the beneficial impact of use of mobile phones for health care on maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality, and to seek innovative ways to ensure access to skilled…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Health Sciences (KU), Department of International Health Immunology and Microbiology (KU)
Total grant: 2,659,096
Enterprise development in food processing with support from science base in food science and technology, nutrition and business management. Overall objective is to fill the knowledge gap on how to…
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, Faculty of Agriculture (SUA), Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness (SUA)
Total grant: 3,091,000
The project investigates, to which degree Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs) in Kenya support or inhibit the implementation of the Education-For-All (EFA) strategy, and to which degree TTC supports or…
Total grant: 2,139,584
From a predominantly political standpoint, informed by a multi-sited ethnographical case study in Mozambique, this project aims to provide a clear articulation of the relationship between curative…
acquired immune deficiency syndrome, antiretroviral agents, efficacy, ethnography, malnutrition, politics, treatment
Total grant: 2,147,963
This project explores how governance, politics and authority operate in present day Bangladesh. The project centres on the sites of incubation of political leaders and state servants - the youth in…
Total grant: 401,186
Developing countries are preparing for the next global climate regime to follow the Kyoto protocol in 2012 and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation and enhancing forest carbon…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Science (KU), Department of Food and Resource Economics (KU)
Total grant: 197,123
Smallholder livestock is a potential driver of economic growth in Tanzania. This is recognized in the National Strategy for Livestock Development, the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (KU), Department of Veterinary Disease Biology (KU)
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College,Tanzania
Total grant: 4,077,480
Project Completion Report: The focus of the Ph.D. thesis is how the efforts to access and live with lifelong treatment made by people with different social and economic resources, are recognized,…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (KU), Department of Antropology (KU)
Total grant: 1,125,092
Improved tenure security can help improve food security for the 75% of the world’s poor who live on the countryside and depend on access to land. The project investigates implementation of…
Total grant: 2,820,437
The overall purpose of this Ph.D. study is to illuminate and analyse clients' and providers' experiences with distribution and access of ART over time so as to improve the quality and sustainability…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Social Sciences (KU), Department of Antropology (KU)
Total grant: 1,125,092
The aim of the project is to investigate consequences of climate change for the livelihoods of rural populations in three areas in Nepal and how people try to adapt to these changes. Emphasis will be…
resource management, rural population, climate change, coping strategies, livelihoods, medicinal plants, wood
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Science (KU), Department of Food and Resource Economics (KU)
Total grant: 2,397,695
HIV infection (HIV) and sickle cell disease (SCD) are widespread chronic diseases in Africa, and there is major risk of co-infection of these diseases with malaria, particularly in children. Both HIV…
sickle cell anaemia, antimalarials, children, efficacy, human immunodeficiency viruses, nontarget effects, treatment
University of Ghana Medical School, Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ghana, University of Ghana, school of Public Health, Centre for Medical Parasitology, Ghana, University of Copenhagen, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, Denmark
Total grant: 2,608,400
Black Sigatoka, caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis, is currently one of the major constraints for production of banana and plantain worldwide, including Sub-Saharan and East Africa where millions of…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Science (KU), Department of Plant and Environmental Science (KU)
Makerere University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Production, Uganda, Central Food Technology Research Institute, India, Grains and Legumes Development Board, Ghana
Total grant: 3,166,197
Although long perceived as a beacon of development in East Africa, recent violence has made visible the political instability of Kenya. Cattle raiding, while originally a traditional mechanism of…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Science (KU), Department of Food and Resource Economics (KU)
Total grant: 308,916
Malaria is the cause of severe maternal anaemia and is responsible for about one third of preventable low birth weight babies. It contributes to the deaths of an estimated 10,000 pregnant women and up…
Total grant: 2,131,835
It is commonly assumed that African elites are not oriented towards change and propoor economic growth. Rather, African political relationships and development are often seen to be embedded within…
Total grant: 2,539,248
The Ghanaian forest resources provide important welfare benefits such as livelihood maintenance, carbon storage and economic growth. A high rate of deforestation threatens the continued provision of…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Science (KU), Department of Food and Resource Economics (KU)
Total grant: 290,016
The project contributes to enhancing and sustaining future livelihoods and food security in Vietnam vis-a-vis climate change. It aims at developing adapted, submergence- and salt-tolerant rice…
Total grant: 4,950,000
About 60% all of human infections in the world are caused by zoonotic pathogens transmitted typically by direct contact to animals or through faecally contaminated foods. Smallholder farmers in rural…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) - Prior to 2012, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology (LIFE) - Prior to 2012
Total grant: 331,512
PfEMP1 are a class of parasite proteins expressed on the surface of Plamosium falciparum-infected erythrocytes, where they function as adhesion receptors interacting with a range of host tissue…
University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (KU), Centre for Medical Parasitology (KU)
Total grant: 6,300,530
BACKGROUND: In Sub-Saharan Africa climate changes are predicted to aggravate constraints to plant production by altering patterns of precipitation. Both increased drought and more frequent periods…
Aarhus University (AU), Denmark, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (AU), Department of Genetics and Biotechnology (AU)
Total grant: 3,769,267
Children are dying from tuberculosis, even though it is a disease, which can be prevented and cured. WHO estimates that up to 400.000 children a year die from TB yet children have been largely…
Total grant: 3,640,906