29 May 2024

Academia offers incredible insights into the impact of climate change on public health through information development and dissemination. Academia also incorporates sustainability and public health concerns into schooling to develop future leaders.

Showcasing the Center's continuous development, their communication team has developed a new website that has a more user-friendly design, improved accessibility, search optimisation, social media integration, and simple navigation to allow target audience to find exactly what they need.

In February 2024, a delegation from Karolinska Institutet led by Vice President Martin Bergö visited Makerere University in Uganda, a long-term partner of Karolinska Institutet.

At the Global Conversation webinar on the 5th of September 2023, experts in the field discussed the pressing issue of climate change and its impact on health, specifically focusing on extreme weather events such as flooding.

A 3-day workshop was held at the end of August at Karolinska Institutet (KI) with colleagues from KI and Makerere University, working together at the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health.

The following workshop was targeted at key M&E and project implementation employees of federal and state government authorities who benefited from the previous year's workshop. The workshop was one of SDGcaps' capacity-building initiatives, and Benadir Innovation supports with its execution.

The SDGCap innovation commenced on August 19th and concluded on October 2nd. A duration of precisely 6 weeks with a total of 15 participants actively engaged in the program. Among them was Abdirisak Mohamed Hassan who said:

“The SDGCap Innovation course transformed my problem-solving approach, teaching me to find opportunities within challenges.

In an article published in the BMC Global and Public Health, the CESH argues that three transformations are necessary to achieve sustainable health and concludes the article with a call to action from a wide range of stakeholders.   

In early May, the MIDWIZE conference was held in Kampala, bringing together stakeholders in the field of maternal and child health. MIDWIZE is a framework to guide quality improvements in midwife led care.

The primary purpose of the event was to commemorate the inauguration of the BU Innovation Hub and to celebrate this momentous occasion. Distinguished guests were in attendance, hailing from diverse sectors such as the academic community, government officials, civic society, and young individuals.

As part of the capacity-building efforts to strengthen and facilitate visualization and communication of data, a one-day training workshop has been organized in Uganda. The aim of the workshop was to improve the ability of researchers, academics, and communication specialists to visualize and communicate/present data using publicly available tools.

The EU is in the process of setting out its position on the newly launched Global Health Strategy intending to improve global health security and deliver better health for all in a changing world.

The first national forum for the Sustainable Development Goals, FNODD (Forum National sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable) has been launched through a two-day conference in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

On December 6, a one day sensitization meeting was held regarding the role of the university in the implementation of the SDGs in DRC. The Rector of the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) called on a conference with all the UNIKIN Communities (Professors, scientifics, administratives and students) to discuss.

The Somalia team for the project Building capacity for sustainable development in fragile states (SDGCap) has launched a multisectoral platform for sustainable development.

Reference group of CESH provides valuable feedback on the Centre’s tool kits for sustainable health.

On the 14th of December 2022 the working group members of the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health (CESH) were joined by the Centre’s reference group for a 90-minute Zoom session.

Training programme on sustainable health presented at major public health conference

Meet Dr. Freddy Bangelesa who is a research scientist and senior lecturer at Kinshasa School of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is also a coordinator for the training programme Managing Innovation for Sustainable Health.

A series of multisectoral workshops on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) have been held in Uganda in two local government districts in Uganda: Mayuge and Mukono. The aim of the workshops was to increase the knowledge on the SDGs and enhancing their localization within the district while working across sectors.

 

Mayuge – September 14-15

The Somali team in SDGCap has conducted a four-day workshop: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) for the Public Sector to enhance Accountability and Transparency. The training workshop targeted key monitoring and evaluation project implementation staff of government officials at federal and state level.

A workshop on how vulnerable populations can be included in the strategy to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC), was organised in Kinshasa 25–26 November.