Objective
FRESH AIR is a 3 year project which addresses the urgent need to prevent, diagnose and treat lung diseases in LMICs and other low-resource settings where the greatest burden of disease is experienced. Our Consortium brings together leading international respiratory researchers, clinicians and policy experts from EU member states and the US who have expertise and experience of the challenges of implementation in LMICs and healthcare providers, policy makers and implementers from four countries that represent very different low-resource settings.
Members will work together to adapt and test innovation and evidence-based practice in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lung disease in four low-resource settings in Uganda, Kyrgyz Republic, Vietnam and Greece with high levels of tobacco consumption and exposure to Household Air Pollution (HAP). In so doing, the Consortium will transfer skills and technology from EU member states and the US to new contexts and explore a range of implementation science research questions. The new knowledge this generates will be widely disseminated nationally, regionally and internationally, ensuring the scale-up of interventions tested by the project and global impact of research findings. The project will also provide new perspectives on policy issues of concern to EU members, increase the international profile of EU funded research on key health challenges and open up markets for healthcare innovations.
The project has 7 specific objectives focused on the following:
1. Identifying factors influencing the implementation of evidenced-based interventions
2. Exploring which awareness-raising approaches are most effective in achieving behaviour change
3. Adapting interventions that provide smoking cessation support
4. Testing innovative diagnostic methods for COPD
5. Promoting pulmonary rehabilitation as a low cost treatment
6. Reducing children’s risk of lung damage
7. Generating new knowledge, innovation and scalable models.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic and environmental health
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinepneumologyasthma
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicinephysiotherapy
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
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Call for proposal
H2020-HCO-2015
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
2333 ZA Leiden
Netherlands
Participants (14)
EH2 4JN Edinburgh
256 Kampala
720040 Bishkek
- Ho Chi Minh City
74100 Rethimno
9712 AC Groningen
S10 2PX Sheffield
98195 9472 Seattle Wa
DT1 1RD Dorchester Dorset
9713 GZ Groningen
1165 Kobenhavn
Participation ended
1040 Bruxelles
PL4 8AA Plymouth
3400 Hillerod