South-African Higher Education Institutions as drivers of change for health and wellbeing The objective is to enable South-African Higher Education Institutions as Drivers of Change for Health and Wellbeing. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being is essential to achieve sustainable development. The complex interrelationships of factors affecting human and animal health, the well-being of the population and universal health coverage, require a move away from siloed to integrated and collaborative approaches which incorporate diverse disciplinary perspectives as exemplified by the One Health, “Whole of Society” approaches to health (cf. interlinkages).
In this South African programme, the two partners, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases (DVTD, University of Pretoria) and School of Public Health (SOPH, University of the Western Cape), will work together aiming to contribute to the long-term goal to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations in South Africa and beyond, making sure no one is left behind. Each partner will have a specific pathway of change and entry point to this long-term goal. DVTD will focus on infectious diseases of poverty in vulnerable, ru...(+6 characters extra in FundHub text) The target groups on an institutional level are DVTD (UP) and SOPH (UWC). On an individual level we aim to target scientists DVTD (8M, 10F), UWC (3M, 9F), trainees DVTD, UWC (min. 50% women), admin staff DVTD (1M, 6F), UWC (4F), participants of research projects (not enough data to disaggregate by sex, target: reflection of demographic situation), targeted community members, policy makers . Lastly, the networks of people we want to target are partner institutes, researchers and alumni.