Externalities, such as air pollution and increased occupational hazards, resulting from global trends in climate change, rapid industrialization, and rapidly increasing populations are raising global concerns about the associated health risks. The Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hub for Eastern Africa was established to address some of these problems at national and regional levels through focused training and applied research that would yield evidence supporting policies and investments to mitigate risks of increasing environmental threats throughout the Eastern African region. Emphasis has been placed on air pollution, a leading risk factor for global mortality, accounting for over 7 million premature deaths or 8.7% of the 2017 global mortality burden. Despite the enormous disease burden that air pollution causes, global investment in air pollution monitoring and research capacity building in low-middle and middle-income countries have been inadequate. This study outlines the activities the Hub has undertaken in planning for and carrying out its initial capacity building and building its primary research programs and identifies central lessons that can inform other large global research partnerships.

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东非 GEOHealth 中心：贡献和经验教训

全球气候变化趋势、快速工业化和快速增长的人口导致的空气污染和职业危害增加等外部性正在引起全球对相关健康风险的担忧。东非全球环境和职业健康中心的成立旨在通过重点培训和应用研究在国家和地区层面解决其中的一些问题，这些研究将产生支持政策和投资的证据，以减轻整个东非地区日益严重的环境威胁的风险。空气污染是全球死亡的主要风险因素，导致超过 700 万人过早死亡，占 2017 年全球死亡负担的 8.7%。尽管空气污染造成了巨大的疾病负担，全球对中低收入国家空气污染监测和研究能力建设的投资不足。本研究概述了该中心在规划和实施其初始能力建设和建立其主要研究计划方面开展的活动，并确定了可以为其他大型全球研究伙伴关系提供信息的核心经验。