Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity: mapping, examining and anticipating future risks of water-related vector-borne diseases in eastern Africa.
Healthy Futures is an EU FP7 funded project which aims to build a disease risk mapping system for three water-related high-impact VBDs (malaria, Rift Valley fever (RVF) and schistosomiasis) in Africa, accounting for environmental/climatic trends to predict future risk. Concentrating on eastern Africa as a study area, the project comprises a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary consortium of health, environment, socio-economic and climate experts in addition to governmental health departments. The consortium comprises both Africa- and Europe-based institutions, with the majority (8 of a total of 15) based in Africa. The project will deploy a bottom-up, end-user/stakeholder-focused approach to achieve its aims.
Trinity College Dublin is the coordinator of the project.
The official Healthy Futures project page: http://www.healthyfutures.eu