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Building Academic Capacity in Global Health in the Eastern Europe - Central Asia Region
The Erasmus+ funded project “Building Academic Capacity in Global Health in the Eastern Europe - Central Asia Region” (BACE) has started in January 2021 and is planned to run for 36 months until January 2024. The project is implemented by a consortium of 11 universities – 3 from Western Europe (Heidelberg, Germany; Tromsø, Norway; and Bergen, Norway) and 8 from the EECA region (4 universities in Georgia, 2 universities in Kazakhstan and 2 universities in Ukraine). The project coordinator is the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health.
Overall project objective:
Enable 3 EECA countries – Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine – to build capacity of their higher education systems to integrate Global Health and Global Health research into academic programmes.
Specific objectives:
- Develop curricula and deliver accredited courses on priority GH topics: 6 accredited courses on major GH topics will be collaboratively developed by groups comprising representatives from Partner universities and mentors from Heidelberg Institute of Global Health.
- Develop curricula and deliver accredited courses on GH research methods: 2 accredited GH research methods courses will be developed collaboratively by working groups comprising representatives from Partner HEIs and mentors from University of Tromsø.
- Establish the EECA Regional Alliance for Global Health which will serve as an institutional mechanism for regional collaboration, knowledge exchange, training and research on priority GH issues.
BACE Project team
Project Manager: Associate prof. Maia Bitskhinashvili, Vice-dean
Financial Manager: Maia Kharatishvili (senior specialist/Financial Department)
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Objective 1: Global Health Teaching Courses |
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| Course | TSU staff |
| Globalization and Health with Focus on the EECA Region | Prof. Nata Kazakhashvili |
| Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions and their Effects on Population’s Health in the EECA Region |
Assoc. prof. Lasha Loria |
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Measuring Populations’ Health: Methods and Outcomes for EECA Countries |
Ana Giguashvili (Invited lecturer) |
| Global Health Security: Policies, Cooperation Mechanisms and Experiences in EECA Countries |
Prof. Nata Kazakhashvili |
| Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Anti-Microbial Resistance in EECA Countries | Assoc. Prof. Lasha Loria |
| Environmental Pollution and Climate Change as Determinants of Health in EECA Countries | Ana Giguashvili (Invited lecturer) |
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Objective 2: Global Health Research Methods Courses |
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| Course | TSU staff |
| Research Methods and Design: Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
Ekaterine Ruadze (invited lecturer) |
| Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing | Lika Svanadze (Invited lecturer) |
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Objective 2: Global Health Alliance |
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| Name | Position/Affiliation |
| Prof. Paata Imnadze | Head of Public Health Department at TSU and Vice-Director of NCDC Georgia |
| Prof. Nino Chikhladze | Professor of Public Health Department and Head of Quality Assurance Service |
Project participants
- University of Haidelber (Germany) – Coordinator
- University of Bergen (Norway)
- University of Tromso (Norway)
- Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia
- The University of Georgia (UG), Georgia
- Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU), Georgia
- Tbilisi Institute of Global Health, Georgia
- National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Ukraine
- Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil national Medical University (TNMU), Ukraine
- Astana Medical University (AMU), Kazakhstan
- Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), Kazhakhstan