Building Resilience to Health Haszards to Improve Population Health and Well-Being
Staff involved: Luís Pedro Carmo, Damarys Montano Valle, Julie Pont, Salome Dürr, John Berezowski
Duration: Sept 2020 – ongoing
The VPHI was awarded a Seed Money grant from the Leading House for the Latin American Region to foster collaboration with Cuban partners.
The objective of this project is to address Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by building resilience to health hazards at the human-animal-environment interface using holistic approaches. Our approach is to increase emerging health hazard information production capacity, allowing for faster, more effective and more efficient responses to emerging hazards. To achieve this we plan to conduct basic research needed to design and implement a multi-sectoral, collaborative One Health Surveillance (OHS) system in Cuba to produce this information. Timely information about emerging hazards is critically important for increasing societal resilience to these hazards. Early information, before a hazard causes significant harm, provides much needed additional time for developing effective responses.
This project will:
1) train trainers to assess, design and implement OHS;
2) identify the strengths and weaknesses of multi-sectoral collaborations in Cuba for supporting OHS;
3) develop transferrable approaches for designing and implementing OHS and
4) validate the approaches and outputs through scientific exchange in Latin-American and Swiss workshops. We plan to use a combination of in person and remote workshops.
The research approach and outputs will be used to inform a general approach for designing and implementing OHS in other countries.
