Anticipating Risks of Disease Outbreaks in East Africa - Fifth Issue of HEALTHY FUTURES Newsletter Now Available
7 January 2014
Austria
HEALTHY FUTURES is an EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) funded project which aims to address the risk of outbreaks and transmission of three water-related vector-borne diseases (VBDs) in eastern Africa.
This issue of HEALTHY FUTURES Project News includes: reports on climate impacts on present day malaria transmission in Uganda and socioeconomic vulnerability to dengue fever; an overview of the identification and engagement of key stakeholders in relation to HEALTHY FUTURES; an account of the one-day stakeholder meeting on malaria and climate change held in Kampala in October 2013; descriptions of presentations made on preliminary outcomes arising from HEALTHY FUTURES at the GSDI and AfricaGIS conferences, held in Ethiopia in November; details of research stays and secondments undertaken by HEALTHY FUTURES researchers at the University of Rwanda and the Harvard School of Public Health; and information about upcoming events relating to the HEALTHY FUTURES project.
For more information, and to keep up to date with project activities, please visit the HEALTHY FUTURES project website, www.healthyfutures.eu or contact David Taylor (Coordinator) david.taylor@nus.edu.sg or Paul Lowen (Project Officer) paul@aquatt.ie
Notes for editors
Detailed partner profiles are available on request.
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, is the coordinator of this project, with AquaTT, Dublin, as the project administrator partner. Prof David Taylor, formerly of Trinity College Dublin and now based at the National University of Singapore, is the Scientific Coordinator of this project. The HEALTHY FUTURES project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 266327.
Contact: Prof. David Taylor (Project Coordinator), Department of Geography, NUS (email: david.taylor@nus.edu.sg), or Paul Lowen (Project Officer), AquaTT (email: paul@aquatt.ie)
This issue of HEALTHY FUTURES Project News includes: reports on climate impacts on present day malaria transmission in Uganda and socioeconomic vulnerability to dengue fever; an overview of the identification and engagement of key stakeholders in relation to HEALTHY FUTURES; an account of the one-day stakeholder meeting on malaria and climate change held in Kampala in October 2013; descriptions of presentations made on preliminary outcomes arising from HEALTHY FUTURES at the GSDI and AfricaGIS conferences, held in Ethiopia in November; details of research stays and secondments undertaken by HEALTHY FUTURES researchers at the University of Rwanda and the Harvard School of Public Health; and information about upcoming events relating to the HEALTHY FUTURES project.
For more information, and to keep up to date with project activities, please visit the HEALTHY FUTURES project website, www.healthyfutures.eu or contact David Taylor (Coordinator) david.taylor@nus.edu.sg or Paul Lowen (Project Officer) paul@aquatt.ie
Notes for editors
Detailed partner profiles are available on request.
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, is the coordinator of this project, with AquaTT, Dublin, as the project administrator partner. Prof David Taylor, formerly of Trinity College Dublin and now based at the National University of Singapore, is the Scientific Coordinator of this project. The HEALTHY FUTURES project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 266327.
Contact: Prof. David Taylor (Project Coordinator), Department of Geography, NUS (email: david.taylor@nus.edu.sg), or Paul Lowen (Project Officer), AquaTT (email: paul@aquatt.ie)