THET is a five-year project (2018-2023) led by MUHAS, funded by Fogarty under Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) program. The project will implement innovative approaches to enhance the quality of medical and nursing education and research focusing especially on HIV/AIDS by:
The project Strengthening One Health and Planetary Health in Eastern Africa (SOPHEA) aims to explore, investigate, teach and act on the increasing climate and environmental changes and their interactions with health within the framework of the related concepts of Planetary Health and One Health. For linguistic simplification, the term "Planetary Health" is used as a proxy for both closely related concepts. Approaching climate, environmental, and health aspects in a holistic manner has received increasing attention in recent years. The integration of these aspects into teaching is subsumed under the term Planetary Health Education (PHE). International research and teaching activities have been gradually implemented in different places. Until now, the translation to regional and local contexts as well as the establishment of academic activities have been insufficient for the Eastern African context. In the Great Lakes region, many health aspects are concentrated that interact directly with climate and environmental factors. Regional initiatives such as the Planetary Health Eastern Africa Hub (PHEAH) have produced initial efforts to set an increasing focus on Planetary Health in research and education. The aim of the SOPHEA project is to further expand these initial activities and to build up a network of scientists, health professionals and health advocates synergistically. Read More