Current Sponsored Research Projects

Africa's Health in 2010

Dates: November 2005 to September 2010
Funding Source: USAID
Tulane’s Role: Subcontractor (Prime: Academy for Educational Development. Other sub-contrators include: Abt Associates, Heartlands International Ltd., and Population Reference Bureau)
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa
Principal Investigator: Sambe Duale, MD, MPH
Website: http://africahealth2010.aed.org/

Africa's Health in 2010 (Africa 2010) Project is a five-year successor to the Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) I and II projects. The purpose of the project is to provide strategic, analytical, communications and advocacy, and monitoring and evaluation technical assistance to African public and private institutions and networks to improve the health status of Africans.

Africa's Health in 2010 focuses on issues identification, analysis, sharing of promising practices, and monitoring and evaluation across the areas of maternal and newborn health; child survival; infectious diseases; reproductive health; multisectoral support to improving health outcomes including HIV/AIDS; nutrition; gender-based violence and health systems with emphasis on human resource for health, health financing and governance. Tulane is responsible for the infectious diseases component of the project and oversees the overall technical direction of the project.