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This SUSCARE project addresses the call for proposals on global health by proposing an international partnership between Norwegian and Colombian Universities, Research Institutes, and International Diabetes Federation, Colombia. The primary objective of SUSCARE is to establish a long-term partnership on advancing “SDG 3-Good Health and Well-being” by fostering the Norwegian government`s “Better Health, Better Lives” goal. The main purpose of this pre-project is to build a consortium and lay the theoretical and practical foundations for applying for Collaborative and Knowledge-building Projects (KSP) in Global Health in 2025 aimed to implement and evaluate a sustainable and equitable Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Based Patient-centred framework for self-management of type 2 diabetic (T2D). Overall, this pre-project will help to get a better overview of the research challenges, perform necessary assessments of user requirements and research needs to improve self-management of T2D, identify, and engage potential stakeholders, and make concrete development goals and research direction for the KSP application to be submitted in March 2025.

A Sustainable AIoT Based Nutritional Recommender for Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes among Adult Population

The partners of the present pre-project want to enhance knowledge and build capacity in youth health across all three partner institutions. This will be done by a) disseminating of updated knowledge on adolescent's physical, mental, and social health through 2 PhD projects based on data collected in the population-based Lusaka Fit Futures Study in Zambia in 2024, b) facilitating research through 2 PhD projects and promote high-quality services in response to injuries through a Spinal Cord Injury Registry at KCMC, which is a referral hospital with a specialized unit for traumatic spinal cord injuries in Tanzania c) establishment of MSc programs in physiotherapy at the south partner universities in Zambia and in Tanzania. The north partner's research group “Public Health and Rehabilitation” (FFR) holds expertise in population-based studies, patient’s registries and training of physiotherapists at MSc level and will support the research activities and supervision of the project’s PhD students. 
Lusaka Fit Futures Study and the Spinal Cord Injury Registry represent classical epidemiological research. To enhance the main projects' ability to provide new knowledge directly to stakeholders, bridging epidemiology with implementation, public involvement through strong end-user groups are needed. Relevant partners are formal representatives from the four participating governmental secondary schools in the Lusaka Fit Futures Study where the general adolescent population attend. In conjunction to the Spinal Cord Registry, NGOs such as the Atlas Alliance or other associations supporting young disabled people offer opportunities for important end-user groups. Funding for this pre-project will be used to identify and establish local partnerships outside the research sector in Lusaka in Zambia and in the Kilimanjaro and Arusha Regions of Tanzania, including involvement of the respective physiotherapy associations.

An international collaboration on adolescent's health situation in Zambia, Tanzania and Norway.

Mental disorders are among the leading public health challenges, with widespread impacts on individuals, families, and communities, especially in low-resource settings. Vulnerable populations, including internally displaced persons, returnee migrants, individuals living in poverty, and disadvantaged communities, are at an increased risk of mental disorders. Despite the high burden, only a small fraction of affected individuals receive adequate care in low—and middle-income countries. This project addresses significant gaps in access to treatment and the need for locally relevant solutions to reduce stigma, support recovery, and empower communities.
This project aims to establish a strong, collaborative partnership to create sustainable, community-based interventions for mental disorders in Ethiopia and South Africa. Through building partnerships among research institutions, NGOs, and health authorities, we will develop scalable, culturally adapted interventions that align with SDG 3, "Good Health and Well-Being."
The primary goal is to lay the foundation for a comprehensive project proposal by developing evidence-based interventions and enhancing local research capacity. Key activities include workshops, research stays, and strategic meetings to define user needs and research qu and develop a grant proposal. The focus is on equitable partnerships, ensuring shared leadership and resource distribution.
This partnership will improve health outcomes by addressing mental health treatment gaps with digital solutions and peer support networks. The project will strengthen healthcare capacity, reduce stigma, and promote sustainable, community-driven recovery models. In the long term, it aims to create scalable, locally adapted treatment models and contribute data to guide policy, aligning with SDG 3.

Building Sustainable Partnerships for Community-based Mental Health Interventions in Ethiopia and South Africa

Lead exposure is a critical global health issue impacting about one-third of children globally, with Southeast Asia with Southeast Asia facing the greatest burden. Despite this, research in many low- and middle-income countries, including Vietnam, is sparse. In May 2024, UNICEF and the US Agency for International Development urged actions to eradicate childhood lead exposure, a goal supported by the Vietnamese government. However, existing research in Vietnam is mostly confined to small-scale studies near lead-recycling facilities or mines, showing elevated blood lead levels in children. Crucially, there is a lack of comprehensive data on lead exposure among the general population, particularly in children and pregnant women, which leaves major exposure sources and hotspots unidentified. 

For the past decade, UiT The Arctic University of Norway has developed equitable partnerships with Georgian institutions, focusing on maternal and child health and lead poisoning prevention. Fifteen years ago, UiT also collaborated with Vietnamese institutions on environmental health and epidemiology. Given the ongoing lead exposure challenges in Southeast Asia, Vietnam's renewed commitment to address this issue, and the interest from past partners to re-engage, the upcoming Research Council of Norway call in March 2025 is a perfect opportunity to enhance and extend our collaborations, including also non-research entities. Developing strong, equitable partnerships and a competitive proposal requires time and both virtual and in-person interactions. This pre-project aims to secure resources for these activities, planning online meetings to renew and expand partnerships, a 5-day workshop to refine research questions, engage stakeholders, and distribute responsibilities fairly. This will be followed by biweekly online meetings to collaboratively draft the research proposal for submission, ensuring all partners have significant input and joint ownership of the project.

Establishing sustainable partnerships for preventing childhood lead poisoning in Viet Nam

This pre-project aims to create a sustainable alliance of partners, both inside and outside academia, to focus on primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease in adolescents in Nepal. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of disability and death globally. In 2019, 32% of all global deaths were caused by CVDs, with more than three quarters of these in low- and middle-income countries. Most CVDs can be prevented by addressing risk factors connected to behaviour and the environment which also necessitates a life course approach as well as multisectoral collaboration. To intervene as early as possible is therefore crucial. Primordial prevention is particularly promising in resource-limited settings such as in a low-income country like Nepal where around 98% of the population have at least one risk factor for CVD.

To be able to create and establish a sustainable alliance of partners from Norway, Sweden, and Nepal, we require time and active engagement from partners in various sectors. Our ongoing research has provided a network of partners in Nepal within academia, such as Kathmandu Medical College and Patan Academy of Health Sciences. The network will now be expanded with several partners in Nepal that represent a broader geographic area and demographic profile than only the Kathmandu Valley as well as new partners outside academia such as the Nepal Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Alliance. We will also engage additional partners as required from Norway and Sweden with the aim to establish the optimal consortium to tackle the identified health challenge.

The pre-project has activities planned for 3.5 months. Throughout this time, regular meetings will be held online as needed. Both UiT and our main partner institutions in Nepal will be involved in identifying partners. In addition, UiT will lead the engagement of stakeholders while Nepali partners will be responsible for local coordination on site.

Creating a sustainable partnership to effectively address primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease in adolescents in Nepal

Worldwide, nearly 2 million children are living with HIV, with 160,000 new infections annually. Untreated, HIV progresses to AIDS, which kills 100,000 children annually, mainly in African countries (UNAIDS 2022). These deaths are now largely preventable due to the widespread availability of free antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART is a highly effective treatment, allowing HIV patients of all ages to live near-normal lives. ART also prevents HIV transmission during childbirth and breastfeeding. Yet, lapses in treatment, for both mothers and children, lead to many unnecessary new infections and deaths. 

There is an urgent need to understand the needs of HIV-affected children and their families, and to identify practical approaches to prevent paediatric infection, promote adherence to treatment, and empower families with the knowledge that HIV-positive children can lead long, healthy and productive lives, if they get the right care.

In order to address these knowledge needs, we must build a strong and equal partnership that can effectively identify the distinct barriers to HIV care for children, and co-design effective interventions. This collaboration must include an interdisciplinary team of health researchers with local and contextual knowledge, as well as public sector healthcare providers and local health organizations.

We will use the pre-project to travel to Malawi and meet with potential partners. The purpose of these meetings will be to better understand the needs of children affected by HIV, strategic considerations of policy actors, and the scope for the establishment of an equal and effective partnership across a network of collaborators. This will allow us to develop theories and potential interventions that effectively address research and policy needs.

Investments, Goals and Outcomes for Children Living with HIV (IGOHI)

The Philippines is frequently facing many extreme weather events that seriously affect mental health. The Mind4Climate pre-project aims to address the growing mental health crisis in the country associated with climate change. This project seeks to establish a partnership among researchers, healthcare providers, NGOs, and government agencies from Norway and the Philippines. We plan to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment, followed by designing community-based interventions and workshops that build local capacity to collaborate effectively. We, therefore, plan to design a culturally relevant, scalable project involving diverse experts from health economics, mental health, and global health ethics expertise. Depending on the foundation of this pre-project, we seek to effectively address climate-induced mental health challenges and build a research proposal for the effects of climate change on vulnerable communities in the Philippines.

Climate Change Impact on Mental Health: The Philippines Case

The AfroAccessAbility project addresses critical health disparities experienced by disabled persons in Ghana and Tanzania, with the overarching goal of improving health outcomes for disabled persons in the Global South. Despite some advancements, disabled persons face significant barriers to healthcare access that include communication challenges, discriminatory attitudes and practices, which disproportionately impact women with disabilities. The project aligns with SDG 3 ("Good health for all") and SDG 10 (reduced inequalities), focusing on bridging the health gap between disabled and non-disabled persons.

The pre-project phase focuses on building a strong consortium through co-creation with African partners. This ensures the project design integrates the lived experiences of disabled persons with rigorous academic insights, creating a robust foundation for the main project. Additionally, the pre-project aims to strengthen research collaboration networks among Organization of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs), academic institutions, policymakers, and practitioners, fostering interdisciplinary partnerships and long-term impact.

Key challenges include addressing the lack of comprehensive data on health disparities between disabled and non-disabled persons, exploring variations within disability groups, and developing practical, culturally appropriate strategies to overcome barriers. Particular emphasis will be placed on understanding relevant aspects, such as discriminatory practices, insufficient provider training, and inadequate communication strategies. These challenges will be addressed using innovative frameworks, such as positive deviance approaches, tailored to the local contexts of Ghana and Tanzania.

By bridging community insights and academic knowledge, AfroAccessAbility aims to advance inclusive health systems, reduce health inequities, and promote better health outcomes for disabled persons in the Global South, with scalable relevance for other regions.

Equality in Health Access for Disabled Persons

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One Health is a collaborative approach that addresses health challenges affecting humans, animals, and the environment. Zambia's reliance on agriculture and natural resources, coupled with poverty and limited healthcare infrastructure, makes it particularly vulnerable to health threats. One Health challenges in Zambia include malaria, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and zoonotic diseases, which have significant economic implications. However, policy formulation and strengthening is hampered due in part to the lack of integration of economics principles. This is mainly due to lack of data, methodological challenges, and institutional barriers. 

This pre-proposal project will lay the foundation for the development of a comprehensive project seeking to integrate economic principles into One Health governance in Zambia, by collecting key information of the local context, and what works in similar settings to address kye challenges in One Health strategies. The project will be led by the University of Oslo in collaboration with Zambian partners, including the University of Zambia, CIDRZ, PsycHealth Zambia, the Women's Life Wellness Foundation.

The project activities include:
1 - a rapid review of the local context
2 - the project partners will conduct a stakeholder identification, to establish the key players who will be invited to 
 a workshop to discuss the issues in One Health in Zambia.
3 - The project partners will draft a full project proposal based on information gathered in activities 1 and 2, to be submitted for funding in 2025.
4 - The learnings and output from the pre-project will be disseminated to key stakeholders through social media, targeted email lists, partner organizations.

Integrating Economics into One Health Governance in Zambia

The pre-project aims to foster equitable collaboration with new research partners from low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs) and local user partners. This involves forming a transdisciplinary consortium and further developing the proposal for the Collaborative and Knowledge-building Global Health call. The main project’s overarching goal is to enhance our understanding of the impacts of climate change and land-use change on human health. The main project aspires to be transdisciplinary, bringing together researchers from diverse fields and actively engaging with local communities. This collaboration aims to enhance scientific modelling and impact assessments. Pre-project activities include establishing contacts with relevant research and user partners, organizing virtual meetings, and culminating in an in-person workshop hosted by CICERO. These activities will help identify research partners with complementary expertise in epidemiology, as well as partners with strong connections to local communities.

Mitigating Health Risks of Climate Change through Sustainable Forest Restoration in Africa

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The project's goal is to explore and develop mathematical and numerical methods for analyzing stochastic transport equations. These equations are essential for understanding how random fluctuations (noise) affect dynamic systems such as turbulence, water waves, geophysical flows, and compressible fluid motion. Transport equations are a type of partial differential equations used to model the movement and dispersion of quantities like mass, energy, or chemical substances in a medium. These equations account for the velocity field, which describes the direction and speed of movement in the medium. By including stochastic elements in these models, we can consider random influences or noise that occur in the system. This is crucial because many natural and industrial processes are subject to unpredictable factors, which can impact their dynamics. The project focuses on gradient noise, where the velocity fields are influenced by noise. This enables energy-conserving solutions, which is desirable in fluid mechanics. Energy conservation refers to the principle that the total energy in a closed system remains constant over time, even though it may change form. Conventional approaches add so-called Itô noise in the source terms, which continuously injects energy. We use Stratonovich- and Marcus-type fluctuations to represent this noise in the velocity fields of the transport equations. The project aims to develop new mathematical and numerical theories to handle the specific challenges posed by gradient noise. We focus on understanding supercritical transport equations, nonlinear wave equations, and compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Key questions are: (1) Do these stochastic equations have a solution? (2) Is the solution unique? (3) Is the solution stable under changes in input data? (4) How can the solution be computed numerically?

Our project is at the cutting edge of numerical analysis of SPDEs affected by transport noise. Such equations have emerged as a focal point in mathematical research, due to their critical applications in areas like fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling, and geophysical flows. This heightened interest is driven by the need for deeper understanding and precise analysis of these complex phenomena, where SPDEs offer vital insights and predictive capabilities. What sets our research apart is its emphasis on transport-dominated systems driven by gradient noise operators. Prior numerical analysis studies have explored SPDEs with stochastic forcing, but the examination of gradient noise is still in its infancy. The complexity of gradient noise, involving anisotropic (integro-) differential operators due to stochastic calculus, presents unique challenges. There is a pressing need to develop methods that preserve the hyperbolic structure of these equations. Our project aims to pioneer this field by devising theoretically sound numerical algorithms and creating novel frameworks for stability and convergence. Our work considers supercritical transport equations, nonlinear wave equations, and the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Research on stochastic transport equations is inspired by the famous Kraichnan turbulence model, which posits advection through a Gaussian velocity field. Yet, there is a growing consensus that noise in turbulent velocities might be better represented by a Lévy process with jumps. As the second main advancement of our project, we are breaking new ground by pioneering the analysis of SPDEs affected by Marcus-type gradient noise. This area is critically important yet hardly explored, with vast potential for groundbreaking discoveries. Marcus noise is distinct for adhering to the Newton-Leibniz chain rule, which is important in fluid dynamics, unlike the Stratonovich interpretation which fails to do so in the presence of jumps.

NASTRAN: Numerical Analysis of Stochastic TRANsport

Menneskelig aktivitet strekker seg stadig lenger nord i Arktis, hvor atmosfærisk ising er en utfordring og en sikkerhetsrisiko, da den kan påvirke aktiviteter spesielt knyttet til bygg (bygninger, kommunikasjonstårn og skiheiser), energiproduksjon (infrastruktur for sol- og vindenergi), energidistribusjon (kabler og tårn i kraftnettet), transport (veier og broer), maritim- (skip, oppdrettsanlegg og oljerigger) og luftfartssektoren (fly- og bakkeforhold). nICE-prosjektet har som mål å etablere et tverrfaglig forskningsnettverk med fokus på; vitenskapelige og teknologiske problemstillinger knyttet til atmosfærisk ising på strukturer i nordområdene, å legge grunnlaget for utvikling av fremtidens norske kompetansesenter for ising, og å følge opp den strategiske planen til UiT og å støtte FNs bærekraftsmål i den arktiske regionen. Til tross for at det ofte forekommer atmosfærisk isdannelse i Norge, finnes det foreløpig ingen organisert forskningsrelatert infrastruktur for dette. nICE-prosjektet vil bidra til å initiere den strategiske visjonen, og vil forbedre kunnskapen om atmosfærisk isdannelsesfysikk og videreutvikle løsningene for å bekjempe ising. Dette prosjektet skal også bidra til å styrke Norges internasjonale forskningssamarbeid om temaer relatert til atmosfærisk ising, gjennom samarbeid med internasjonale institutter, eksperter og deltakelse i internasjonale forskningsinitiativer.

Human activities are increasingly extending into the high north areas of the Nordic region, where structural icing is a concern from operational, maintenance, safety, and financial perspectives. Structural icing events do not only take place in the Nordic region, but are also an issue for other cold regions around the world. Two types of structural icing mainly occur, 1) sea spray icing, 2) atmospheric icing. This project is mainly focused about atmospheric icing on structures.  Currently, atmospheric icing conditions in cold regions are insufficiently accommodated in the design requirements covered by the national and international standards. Therefore, there is a growing need to improve knowledge and strengthen expertise about atmospheric ice physics associated with icing on structures, ice detection & mitigation techniques, ice disaster management and safety of human industrial operations in icing conditions. 

The nICE project aims to strengthen the atmospheric icing related multi-disciplinary research activities in Norway and will also provide a platform for developing expertise and multi-disciplinary research infrastructure to study and improve knowledge about atmospheric ice accretion physics and its effects. Norway is an ice prone country, but currently no organized atmospheric icing research related infrastructure exists in Norway. In the nICE project, we aim to establish a base to build up research expertise and infrastructure for atmospheric icing, and to establish a future Norwegian icing centre of expertise hosted by UiT and make this an international research hub to address icing related issues. This will also help to strengthen Norway’s international research collaboration on atmospheric icing related topics through working with international institutes, experts, and participation in international research initiatives e.g., Horizon Europe.

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Multi-disciplinary Study of Atmospheric Ice Accretion Physics & Developing Optimal Technological Solutions to Minimize Ice Accretion Effects

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa