Daten zum Projekt
Initiative: | Globale Herausforderungen |
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Ausschreibung: | Mobility - Global Medicine and Health Research |
Bewilligung: | 14.10.2020 |
Laufzeit: | 9 Monate |
Projektinformationen
The "temporariness" of forced displacement means exposure to many socioeconomic determinants that predispose migrants to negative health outcomes. While there are inter-country variations in the integration of refugees in the healthcare system, access to quality life-saving medicine is a global problem. Though the barriers to access are contextual, collective challenges remain for each of these settings with the common predictors poorly understood. To identify these predictors of access to poor quality medicines, this project aims to understand systems-level barriers and to identify specific interventions to address bottlenecks to accessing quality medicines, within three distinct study settings in Africa, the Middle East and South America. To limit the scope, the applicants are focusing on access to quality antibiotics - one of the most-commonly used medicines. The project proposes an embedded research approach, with active engagement and participation of key academic partners in Lebanon, Uganda and Colombia, refugees, international NGOs, local public health agencies and community groups in charge of refugee access to healthcare services in the host countries. In addition, the applicants will construct structured and semi-structured surveys with inputs from partners on the ground to identify the barriers to accessing quality antibiotics. Through surveys, they will also be able to identify methodological gaps in research practice that limit understanding of healthcare access among refugee communities.
Projektbeteiligte
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Prof. Dr. Clarissa Prazeres da Costa
Technische Universität München
Fakultät für Medizin
Center for Global Health
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie,
Immunologie und Hygiene (MIH)
München
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Prof. Muhammad Zaman
Boston University
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Biomedical Engineering and
International Health
Boston
USA
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Prof. Christopher Garimoi Orach
Makerere University
School of Public Health
Department of Community Health and
Behavioural Sciences
Kampala
Uganda
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Aline Germani
American University of Beirut
Faculty of Health Sciences
Center for Public Health Practice
Beirut
Libanon
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Prof. Oscar Bernal
University of los Andes
School of Government
Bogotá
Kolumbien (Colombia)