Transcript Training - Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub

Regional Workshop on Planning for the
Global Environmental and Occupational
Health (GEOHealth) Hub for Interdisciplinary
Research and Training Project: Establishing a
GEOHealth Hub Platform for East Africa
22nd April 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
• Initial step: Needs assessment might be needed
• Air pollution
• OSH
• Climate change
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
• 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
• Online
• Tailored short courses (In-service training)
Targets of training
• Stakeholders:
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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
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