Building resilience to climate-sensitive mosquito-borne viral diseases; preventing epidemics through integrated mosquito control and sentinel surveillance in Zanzibar hospitals
Climatic change and mosquito-borne viral diseases epidemics interlink as increasing temperature, humidity and precipitation exert direct effects on the biological processes of mosquitoes and their capacity as disease vectors. The project seeks to prevent hospital-transmission and acute epidemic spread of climate-sensitive mosquito-borne viral diseases by combining locally tailored mosquito control and sentinel disease surveillance at selected hospital facilities in support of the national disease control and surveillance programmes of Zanzibar.
The project brings together a strong, interdisciplinary network of research and government institutions across Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania with a clear aim to strengthen South-South collaborations, while building on well-established partnerships with the University of Copenhagen - now extended to the Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation.
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The team behind the application is
- Karin Schiøler (University of Copenhagen)
- Fatma Saleh (The State University of Zanzibar)
- Shaali Ame (Public Health Laboratory - Ivo de Carneri)
- Khamis Haji (Ministry of Health, Zanzibar)
- Happiness Kumburu (Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College)
- Leonard E.G. Mboera (Sokoine University of Agriculture)
- Michael Alifrangis (University of Copenhagen).
Funded by:
Project: Building resilience to climate-sensitive mosquito-borne viral diseases; preventing epidemics through integrated mosquito control and sentinel surveillance in Zanzibar hospitals
Period: 2022-2027
Contact
Karin Schiøler (PI)
ksch@sund.ku.dk
+4535326976