Call for Partnership and WAIPH Partners

Starting on October 1, 2021, the West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) joins the Global Nutrition Cluster as a Partner.

The West African Institute of Public Health and its Academy of Public Health supports the work of the Global Nutrition Cluster and its mission to promote and support nutrition as an integral part of humanitarian response and early recovery following emergencies.

The West African Institute of Public Health pledges to uphold the partnership values as well as the humanitarian ideals of humanity, the humanitarian imperative, impartiality, and independence. With this pledge, we declare our intention to take part in the monthly calls and international meetings of the GNC. We also commit to make a significant effort to support the GNC Workplan and the accomplishment of the GNC Strategic Plan.

On the 29th August, 2022 the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), and West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate within the framework of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change and Health (ICCCH). The parties recognize the value and importance of the linkages between climate change and health and wish to collaborate in this area.

The mission of the ICCCH is to conduct research projects, organize professional events, and produce scientific publications that can improve the overall understanding of the links between climate change and health.

Some of objectives both parties want to achieve include; joint research projects on the links between climate change and health including doctoral studies, organization of professional events on this topic, elaboration of materials for the inclusion of issues related to climate change and health in the teaching programmes and training of BSc and MSc students, in order to inform and raise awareness among future health professionals and collaborative publication of research findings in scientific journals.

Through data-driven interventions and programmes, Africa CDC increases the capacity and competency of African public health institutions as well as partnerships to identify and respond to disease risks and outbreaks swiftly and effectively.

The Institute partners with the Africa CDC to take exploratory steps toward the New Public Health Order and the Africa We Want using Digital Technologies.

The West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) . joined the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) and the Allies Improving PHC and over 140 organizations endorsing the Open Letter urging leaders to prioritize primary health care as a 3-for-1 investment in universal health coverage, health security and better health and well-being towards a watershed for health milestones in 2023, which was delivered to key leaders and decision makers in health, including Dr. Tedros, the UN Group of Friends on UHC, the co-facilitators for the 2023 UN High-Level Meetings on UHC and Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response, and many more.

The Every Breath Counts Coalition is the world’s first public-private partnership supporting low- and middle-income countries to reduce pneumonia deaths, including from COVID-19.

The global coalition of UN agencies, businesses, donors, academic institutions and NGOs have committed to supporting governments in countries with some of the highest burden of pneumonia. The members provide support to close the critical gaps in pneumonia prevention, diagnosis and treatment, which could save hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

The West African Institute is an organization member of the EBC coalition. In many collaborative ways, WAIPH has engaged with the coalition. Both organizations hosted a town hall meeting which was facilitated by the Co-founder, Every Breath Counts, Ms. Leith Greenslade for the 2022 cohort of the YPPH programme on “Strategic global health alliances in delivering public goods: The experiences of a coalition builder”.

DevAxle Inc. is a development consulting firm invested into systems strengthening and sector development. DevAxle aims at building a consortium in Nigeria that would leverage robust WASH data for strengthening Advocacy in Primary Healthcare (PHC) and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Programming while also fueling vigorous scientific and operational research in the latter (NTDs).

The West Africa Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) and DevAxle Inc. would be engaging focally with UNICEF and the parastatals of the government of Nigeria as well as affiliate development actors locally across the WASH, PHC and NTDs program areas; the projects are, by design, to consultatively draw on the strengths of global resource organizations as the COR-NTD, TDR and AIM.

The West African Institute of Public Health (WAIPH) joined the West Africa Regional ECHO (WARE) ecosystem.

The Extension for Community Health Outcome (ECHO) platform will enable WAIPH and WARE strengthen the training of public health practitioners and frontline health workers in West Africa.

The Institute is a major partner with the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) which is a consortium of over 320 universities, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and government entities from over 60 countries committed to understanding and addressing global environmental change and its health impacts.

To support the rapid growth of a robust, interdisciplinary field of planetary health, the PHA works to:

Encourage and empower a diverse global planetary health community that crosses sectors, disciplines, generations, worldviews, and geographies.

Facilitate the education and training of current and next generation planetary health practitioners through the development and curation of open-access resources, mentorship and leadership opportunities, and programs from primary to university levels.

Mainstream planetary health science, stories and solutions through broad public outreach and direct engagement with civil society, private sector, general public and governments.

Promote actionable steps that individuals and society can take to advocate for and achieve progress toward planetary health.