Climate, environment and health: recent achievements in Senegal
1 : Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et de l'Océan Siméon Fongang/ESP-UCAD, Dakar, SENEGAL
(LPAO-SF)
2 : Institut Pasteur de Dakar
(IPD)
3 : Institut Pasteur de Dakar
(IPD)
4 : Institut Pasteur de Dakar
(IPD)
5 : Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et de l'Océan Siméon Fongang/ESP-UCAD, Dakar, SENEGAL
(LPAO-SF)
6 : Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et de l'Océan Siméon Fongang/ESP-UCAD, Dakar, SENEGAL
(LPAO-SF)
7 : Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère et de l'Océan Siméon Fongang/ESP-UCAD, Dakar, SENEGAL
(LPAO-SF)
8 : Centre de Suivi Ecologique
(CSE)
9 : Centre de Suivi Ecologique
(CSE)
10 : Centre de Suivi Ecologique
(CSE)
11 : Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
(OMP)
Université Paul Sabatier : UMR5560
12 : METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse, FRANCE
31057 Toulouse
13 : Centre Nationale D'études Spatiales, Toulouse
(CNES)
31 401 Toulouse
14 : Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
(CNES)
31401 TOULOUSE
15 : Centre Nationale D'études Spatiales, Toulouse
(CNES)
31 401 Toulouse
16 : School of Environmental Science, University of Liverpool, UK
(SES)
17 : School of Environmental Science, University of Liverpool, UK
(SES)
18 : Direction des Services Vétérinaires
(DSV)
19 : Direction des Services Vétérinaires
(DSV)
20 : Programme de Lutte contre le Paludisme
21 : Agence Nationale de la Météorologie du Sénégal
* : Corresponding author
Before 1999, we cannot say that the Climate, Environment and Health issue has not been tackled by scientists in Senegal. But regarding bibliography, it seems that often climate issues are highlighted by people coming from the health sector (epidemiologists, medical entomologists, etc.) themselves without interactions with climate and meteorology community. After the “Bamako Health and Climate Workshop” leaded by IRI in 1999, things will change drastically. Indeed, early of the 2000s the French Space Agency developed a programme on tele-epidemiology divided into 4 components: (i) Improving access to healthcare (Treating patients at remote and mobile sites), (ii) Environment-Climate-Health (Monitor, predict and prevent epidemics), (iii) Crisis Management (Better management of major humanitarian crises) and (iv) Education and Training (Improving healthcare and learning thanks to Space). The second component of this approach has been implemented in Senegal, and has leaded or impacted major environment, climate and health projects during this last decade. Today in Senegal, one major outcome is that an Health and Environment Observatory (HEO) has been dedicated to this issue, and it's 15*15 km (225km2) centered over the village of Barkedji, with a High concentration of in-situ measurements covering various sectors: climate, hydrology, water quality, vegetation, land use and land cover changes, veterinary (herds concentration, serosurvey, ruminants parks), malaria incidence, entomological and viral surveys, and social pastoral practices investigations... This site hosted the EMERCASE (EMERgency CASE) and EDEN (Emerging Diseases in a changing European eNvironment, founded by EU-FP6) projects, the WP 3.4 (Health impacts) of AMMA project (African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis, founded by EU-FP6), AdaptRVF project (Impacts of Climate change on Rift valley fever vectors emergence in Senegal: adaptation and strategies for a better pastoralism management in Sahel, founded by GICC programme) and QWECI (Quantifying Weather and Climate Impacts on Health in Developing Countries, founded by EU-FP7). Senegalese scientific research teams involved in area of study are: UCAD (University Cheikh Anta Diop), IPD (Institut Pasteur de Dakar), CSE (Ecological Monitoring Center), DSV (National Livestock Service) and the NMCP (National Malaria Control Programme). In the same way, the HEO site is built on a strong international partnership (France, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain and Kenya). Since 2001, relevant publications and strong scientific results have been achieved thanks to collaborative projects based on pluridisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach; main findings are available in the REDGEMS web site (www.redgems.org).
| Subject : | : | oral |
| Language of text | : | English |
| Topics | : | GT1: Environmental changes |
| Keywords | : | Climate ; environment ; health ; multidisciplinary approach ; Senegal |
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