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OASIS

The OASIS Initiative (Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel), a project of the University of California, Berkeley and the African Institute for Development Policy, is a global multidisciplinary partnership of researchers, policymakers, and advocates working to advance solutions to the increasingly complex global health problems and needs of the most vulnerable populations in the Sahel.

Partners:

Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability

The Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability is a collaboration of students, faculty, researchers, and staff working to improve maternal health and address the impact of population on global public health and the environment. The Center is located at the University of California, Berkeley, and works closely with leaders of U.S. and international-based organizations, as well as government officials throughout Africa and Asia. It is dedicated to developing innovations to improve reproductive health in resource-poor settings, including reliable health information systems, local access to essential technologies and guidelines for prioritizing interventions to maximize health impact. The Center assists in the implementation of family planning and maternal health programs and seeks to improve the health outcomes of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women and their families. For more information: http://bixby.berkeley.edu/

College of Natural Resources

The College of Natural Resources (CNR) at the University of California, Berkeley generates and disseminates knowledge in the biological, physical and social sciences in order to provide the tools both to protect the Earth’s natural resources and ensure economic and ecological sustainability for future generations. Its undergraduate academic programs teach students how to ensure economic and ecological sustainability for future generations. The College is home to four departments – Agricultural and Resource Economics, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Plant and Microbial Biology, and Nutritional Science and Toxicology, as well as 16 interdisciplinary research centers and facilities. Research fields include environmental and agricultural economics as well as policy, law and justice. The College hosts the Beahr Environmental Leadership Program, a program in resource management for international students. For more information: http://nature.berkeley.edu/

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) is a member of the national laboratory system supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through its Office of Science. It is managed by the University of California and is charged with conducting unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Scientists at the Berkeley Lab are highly esteemed — thirteen have won the Nobel Prize, fifty-seven are members of the National Academy of Sciences, and thirteen have won the National Medal of Science. The Lawrence Berkeley Lab has trained thousands of university science and engineering students who are advancing technological innovations across the nation and around the world. Berkeley Lab was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a UC Berkeley physicist and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics, who believed that scientific research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of expertise working in collaboration. For more information: http://www.lbl.gov/

African Institute for Development Policy

The African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) is a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya whose mission is to facilitate the creation, translation, and utilization of research evidence for policy formulation and resource allocation in Africa. The Institute seeks to strengthen efforts to alleviate poverty and improve the quality of human capital by generating and promoting utilization of evidence on the inter-linkages between population change, public health, education and environmental challenges facing Africa. The primary target audiences for the Institute’s work are policy makers and development partners operating at national, regional, and international levels. One key element of AFIDEP’s work involves helping policy makers, including those in the ministries of planning and finance, as well as foreign aid agencies, to have a clearer understanding of the population growth factor in health and development. In particular, AFIDEP seeks to promote funding and adoption of effective strategies for enabling couples to fulfill their childbearing ideals and reduce the high levels of unmet need for family planning and other reproductive health services in Africa. For more information: http://www.afidep.org/

 

 

 

 

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