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New partnership with HKU will support health, poverty and water security research
22 January 2019
果冻影院 has announced funding of three new research projects in partnership with the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
The three projects, focusing on health, poverty and water security, will be led by pairs of senior academics, one from 果冻影院 and one from HKU.
The scheme has made awards for the third year, encouraging cooperative projects on pressing global issues, as identified by the . 果冻影院鈥檚 Grand Challenges programme 鈥� addressing Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Cultural Understanding, Human Wellbeing, Transformative Technology and Justice & Equality, provides an inter-institutional strategic framing for the joint scheme.
The three projects, each awarded 拢10,000 by 果冻影院 and HK$100,000 by HKU, are:
Childhood Infections and Pollution (CHIP): A 果冻影院-HKU One Health technology-enabled citizen science approach to better manage and prevent infections in children in Jaipur鈥檚 urban slums
- Dr Logan Manikam (果冻影院 Epidemiology & Public Health)
- Professor Joseph Syrial Malik (HKU School of Public Health)
This award funds the final step in a multi-component study testing a citizen science approach to better manage and prevent childhood infections in in Jaipur鈥檚 urban slums.
The first element, addressing the question 鈥楥an we implement a rapid household survey of the built environment in the Indian urban slum setting?鈥� has been under way since August 2018, supported by a small grant from 果冻影院鈥檚 Grand Challenge of Global Health. The picture above comes from fieldwork in Jaipur undertaken as part of this first phase.
The second and third components of the study, funded by 果冻影院 KEIF awards, support qualitative research with community champions and community health workers, and the determination of the best methods and most community-acceptable sampling measures to assess air and water quality in Jaipur鈥檚 urban slums. Manikam and Malik, in their 果冻影院-HKU collaboration, will address the question 鈥楥an nasal, throat, stool and sputum sampling be utilised to assess the make-up of children鈥檚 microbiomes and AMR patterns in the urban slums of Jaipur? How can community health workers be involved in the sampling process?鈥�
The study is very cross-disciplinary and international, depending on collaboration with seven senior researchers from 果冻影院, three from HKU, two from Japanese institutions, three from Indian ones and one from a US university.
听HKU and 果冻影院 collaboration in medication safety and healthcare big data research
- Dr Li Wei (果冻影院 School of Pharmacy)
- Professor Ian C K Wong (HKU Pharmacology & Medicine)听
This award will fund a number of joint activities in the field of healthcare and big data over a five year period. Visits will be made by researchers from 果冻影院 and HKU to present their work in their counterparts鈥� country. A joint supervision PhD studentship will be established and a research project, 鈥極ptimisation of Anticoagulants Use in the UK and Hong Kong鈥�, using healthcare data from the UK and HK will be developed by the collaborative team. The team have chosen anticoagulants as the starting point because stroke is on the increase globally; anticoagulants are an effective treatment but come with a high risk of side-effects.
HKU/果冻影院 Water Security Strategic Partnership Accelerator
- Professor Chris Blackman (果冻影院 Chemistry)
- Professor Zheng Xiao Guo (HKU Chemistry and HKU Mechanical Engineering)
This project team are setting out to co-create innovative solutions to ensure clean water supply in developed and developing regions of the world. The researchers will investigate the engineering of innovative processes and materials into effective sorbents, filters, catalysts and sensors, and consider urban planning and integration. The Hong Kong based member of the research team, Professor Zhen Xiao Guo, was previously a researcher at 果冻影院 and the 果冻影院 Pro-Provost (China).
These three joint 果冻影院-HKU research awards follow three made for 2017-18 and two for 2016-17. Information about the awards and reports on outcomes can be found here.
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Jaipur鈥檚 urban slums are the setting for a new research project, jointly led by academics from 果冻影院 and HKU