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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa |
| Research Area | Water |
| Project Acronym | HEALTHY FUTURES |
| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | David Taylor (IE), Olivia Daly (IE) |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD); AquaTT |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.34449, -6.25867; 53.33560, -6.26662 |
| Lead Funding Entity | European Commission |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/01/2011 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 02/01/2015 |
| Project Website (if any) | www.healthyfutures.eu/ |
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| Project Keywords | Water borne vector disease; East Africa; Mapping; Future risk |
| Project Abstract | The HEALTHY FUTURES project is motivated by concern for the health impacts of environmental changes. HEALTHY FUTURES aims to respond to this concern through construction of a disease risk mapping system for three water-related, high-impact vector-borne diseases (malaria, Rift Valley fever and schistosomiasis) in Africa, taking into account environmental/climatic trends and changes in socio-economic conditions to predict future risk. Concentrating on eastern Africa as a study area, HEALTHY FUTURES comprises a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary consortium of health, environment, socio-economic, disease modelling and climate experts in addition to governmental health departments. To achieve its aims, HEALTHY FUTURES will deploy a bottom-up, end user/stakeholder-focused approach combining field-, laboratory- and library-based research. |