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Preparatory workshop of the CAMES scientific conference

September 16th, 2015

From 15 to 16 September 2015, the project participated in a preparatory workshop of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) scientific conference, to take place in Dakar (Senegal) in November 2015. The Workshop was held at the University Félix Houphouet Boigny of Abidjan (UFHB) and was organized by the Thematic Research Program on Climate Changes (PTRCC) of the CAMES. The principal objective of the workshop was to select and synthesize the main research activities on climate change at the country level to be presented at the scientific conference in Dakar. Four thematic sub-groups were defined, one of which was climate change and health (CCH). Our project presented six out of the total seven presentations made on CCH. The six presentations were:

  1. Kone et al. “Resilience to malaria and schistosomiasis in the context of climate change on the Sahelian belt: Contribution of the Ecohealth methodology”
  2. N’krumah et al. “Malaria transmission and climate and socio-environment variability in two ecosystems of Côte d’Ivoire: the case of the health districts of Korhogo (North Côte d’Ivoire) and Tiassalé (South Côte d’Ivoire)”
  3. Gbalegba et al. “Climate variability and transmission dynamics of schistosomiasis in Korhogo (northern Côte d’Ivoire) and Kaédi (southern Mauritania)”
  4. Kaba et al. “Predictable model of resilience to schistosomiasis in the context of climate change in Korhogo and Kaédi”
  5. Kouakou et al. “Social determinants of populations’ resilience in Korhogo (Côte d’Ivoire) and Kaedi (Mauritania) to malaria and schistosomiasis in the context of climate change”
  6. M’bra et al. “Water, sanitation and climate change: integrated analysis of risk factors to malaria and schistosomiasis in Korhogo (Côte d’Ivoire) and Kaedi (Mauritania)”.

At the end of the workshop, the PTRCC coordinator informed us that the creation of a thematic sub-group on climate change and heath was not initially planned within the PTRCC, since another Thematic Research Program on health already existed within the CAMES. However, it was because of our project’s important contribution to climate change and health that the CCH thematic sub-group was created.