NIHR203246 NIHR Global Health Research Centres 1:Non-communicable disease control in West Africa

About this project

Project description A UK and low-and-middle-income-country (LMIC) partnership that aims to contribute to improved health and wellbeing of populations in West Africa, through comprehensive and sustainable capacity strengthening for high-quality applied non-communicable disease (NCD) research in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Niger to inform improved prevention, screening, primary care diagnosis and management/referrals of interrelated hypertension, diabetes and common mental health problems. Between 2022 and 2027, our partnership between the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Asheshi University, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL) and Université Catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest - Unité Universitaire at Bobo-Dioulasso (UCAO-UUB), will use comprehensive and sustainable approaches to capacity strengthening, improving individual, organisational and system-level capacities of: (a) researchers, particularly earlier-career staff, for high-quality applied NCD research, (b) local communities, to engage with and improve behaviours and decisions affecting their health and (c) policymakers and practitioners, to implement evidence-based NCD interventions. This will help to address the urgent need for improving control of non-communicable diseases in West Africa, where healthcare has been traditionally neglected and driven by disease-specific programmes, with limited engageme…

Published by

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine · Academic, training and research

Countries

Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger

Sectors

Health policy and administrative management

Funded by

DHSC

Implemented by

Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ashesi University, Université Catholique de l'Afrique de l'Ouest - Unité Universitaire at Bobo-Dioulasso, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local

Accountable

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, NIHR

Published by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 11 Aug 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: GB-EDU-133903-GB-GOV-10-NIHR203246.

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