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.