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Awards and Distinctions

Date: November 2021

CONGRATULATIONS TO PROF S.I.B. CADMUS & HIS TEAM on the award of

THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE (IDRC) FUNDED GRANT

Project Title-West African One-Health-Actions for Understanding, Preventing and Mitigating Outbreaks
Countries of focus- Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria

Duration: 3 years

Grant value: 4,268,500 Canadian Dollars

Recepient University-Njala University, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Overall Project Leader/Principal Investigator: Professor Rashid Ansumana, Njala University

Project Leader/Principal Investigator in Nigeria-Prof. SIB Cadmus

Project objective - Project is to accelerate and expand One Health actions to prevent and mitigate infectious disease outbreaks at community and national levels across West Africa in response to deep knowledge of socio-ecological drivers, impacts and solutions at the human-animal-environment interface.

One of the key objectives of the project is to investigate, interpret and differentiate between the four countries, the impacts of COVID-19, Lassa Fever, and Ebola Virus Disease on livelihoods, health systems, gender equality, ecosystems, socio-cultural practices and food security.