Health Impact Assessment (HIA) for the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Project Phase 1 operated by bp

The Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) Project is a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project located at the maritime border between Mauritania and Senegal. A health impact assessment (HIA) is being conducted for phase 1 of the Project  with the objectives to: (i) anticipate potential impacts of this Project on…

05.04.2023 - 04.04.2024
Long term service project
International SOS (Africa Holdings) Ltd
Diseases and Programmes
Astrid Knoblauch
AA-HIA-Training - Training on Anglo American's Social Way "Community Health and Safety Management"

Anglo American PLC is one of the world's largest mining companies with ten thousands of employees worldwide. Anglo American is aware of its impacts on stakeholders, especially also communities, they operate in. The Social Way 3.0, adapted in 2020, defines the Anglo American's governing framework for…

01.07.2022 - 31.12.2023
Long term service project
Anglo American Services (UK) Ltd.
Diseases and Programmes
Peter Steinmann
Environmental, Social, Economic and Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) for a Field Study of a Self-Limiting Nondrive Strain of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes on Behalf of Target Malaria

Genetically modified mosquitoes (GMMs) represent great potential for malaria control in the future. Target Malaria – a vector control research alliance based at the Imperial College in London – aims to develop genetic technologies to modify mosquitoes with the ultimate goal to reduce malaria…

01.03.2022 - 30.09.2025
Research project
Insuco Burkina Faso
hands4health - Hand hygiene, water quality and sanitation in primary health care facilities and schools not connected to a functional water supply system

Current technologies and approaches to improve water, sanitation and hygiene are fragmented. Hands4health focuses on the development, testing, evaluation and scaling up of new water efficient hand washing technologies as well as on a holistic approach to hand hygiene, water quality and sanitation.…

01.04.2021 - 31.12.2024
Research project, Evaluation project, Intervention Study, PhD project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Ecosystem Health Sciences
Mirko Winkler
TRAPEGO - Transformation in Pesticide Governance

To simultaneously achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda in areas such as Biodiversity Conservation, Food Production and Consumption, a fundamental transformation in land use and agricultural production seems indispensable. Different interests, needs, and…

01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024
Intervention Study
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / Programme Sinergia
Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Nicole Probst-Hensch
HIA4SD - Health impact assessment for engaging natural resource extraction projects in sustainable development in producer regions

The development and operation of natural resource extraction projects (e.g. minerals, metals, oil and gas) affects public health, ecosystems and societies in producer regions. The HIA4SD Project intends to analyse the conditions under which impact assessments are an effective regulatory mechanism to…

01.08.2017 - 31.07.2023
Research project
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Ecosystem Health Sciences
Mirko Winkler
Cyanide use in artisanal small-scale gold mining in Burkina Faso: health effects, environmental burden and societal dimensions

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is an important activity in many developing countries as it provides a primary and additional source of income, particularly in rural regions where economic alternatives to agriculture are limited. In addition to the use of mercury in ASGM, cyanide can be…

01.02.2017 - 01.03.2018
Research project
Ecosystem Health Sciences
Mirko Winkler
Capacity building in health impact assessment (HIA) training and research in Vietnam

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health impact assessment (HIA) is an interdisciplinary approach that aims at predicting and managing potential positive and negative health effects of policies, programmes, and projects on affected communities and populations. HIA has been developed over the past two decades and became…

01.01.2017 - 31.12.2017
Research project, Teaching and training project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Ecosystem Health Sciences
Mirko Winkler
PESTROP - Pesticide use in tropical settings

PESTROP is an inter- and trans-disciplinary research project, studying environmental, health and institutional dimensions of pesticide use in tropical settings.

Background: Pesticides are intensively used in agriculture worldwide. While it is well established that pesticide exposure accounts for…

01.10.2016 - 09.03.2018
Research project
Swiss Network for international Studies (SNIS)
Ecosystem Health Sciences
Mirko Winkler
Implementing Resource Recovery and Safe Reuse (RRR) business models in Lima

 

 

 

The growing demand in urban and peri-urban areas for food, energy and water is challenging the traditional distribution of resources, rural-urban resource flows, and nutritional cycles. For this reason, the recovery of water, nutrients and energy from liquid and solid waste generated in urban…

01.09.2016 - 01.09.2018
Short term service project
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Ecosystem Health Sciences
Mirko Winkler