Description
Established in October 2010, OHCEA empowers academic leaders with One
Health leadership training and strategic planning to facilitate the regional
transition to a One Health approach. OHCEA provides a platform to transform
the way health leaders of tomorrow understand and practice their professions,
transition the current health workforce through continuing education to adopt
One Health approaches to disease investigation and response, and broaden the
public health base by including community-based health workers. OHCEA
deans and their schools support and facilitate National One Health Core
Working Groups that bring government, communities, and educational
institutions together to address issues of normative and emerging infectious
disease prevention and control.
Purpose
Connect schools of public health and veterinary medicine in Africa to drive
transformational change for continuous improvement of health and well being
of humans, animals, and ecosystems through multi-disciplinary research,
training, and community service.
Scope Regional - Includes Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda,
Tanzania, and Uganda
Primary Funders
USAID, via the RESPOND initiative.
Participants & Key Collaborators
Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), University of Minnesota, Tufts
University, Training and Resources Group, Ecology and Environment, Inc.
Definition of One Health
None
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategy
OHCEA recently approved a ten-year strategic plan that focuses primarily on
operational goals.
Sources of Information
Contact
Dr. Geoffrey Kabagambe
Program Manager
Dr. William Bazeyo
Dean, School of Public Health
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
