Guild ARUA
Uppsala University is participating in four new research clusters bringing together universities in Africa and the EU. The research clusters are intended to build up equitable, interdisciplinary research collaborations that address urgent global societal challenges.
The two university networks The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild) and the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) have launched 17 Clusters of Research Excellence.
Två forskningskluster koordineras av forskare från Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa vid Uppsala universitet tillsammans med forskare vid universitet i Afrika.
Two research clusters are coordinated by researchers at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Uppsala University together with researchers at universities in Africa.
Food Environment Actions for the Promotion of Health
The cluster is focused on promoting good health through research, education and policy work to food environments. The triple burden if malnutrition, overnutrition and micronutrition deficiency is a critical global health challenge, driven by intersecting processess such as urbanisation, food systems transformation and socio-economic inequalities.
The coordinator at Uppsala University is Meena Daivadanam, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health.
Migration and Health
The cluster will focus on the key scientific challenge of migration and health across the AU-EU migration corridor. This corridor is associated with multiple health concerns determined by a range of structural and social factors that are experienced differently by diverse migrant groups and the communities through which they move, live and work.
The coordinator at Uppsala University is Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Lecturer at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health.