Imagine trying to stop childhood obesity in cities where healthy food is hard to find. This project sets up school gardens and uses a mix of classroom lessons, health coaching, and media ads to change habits. It's like a complete lifestyle makeover for teens to prevent lifelong diseases.
Urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa face a double burden of malnutrition and rising obesity. This leads to a surge in non-communicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension in adults.
A four-part intervention system consisting of school urban farms, classroom health modules, motivational interviewing coaching, and mass media campaigns.
If you are a seed provider dealing with low adoption of urban gardening in Africa — this project developed school-based urban farms with satellite farms and composting that can serve as a model for scaling sustainable food production.
If you are an insurer dealing with rising costs of non-communicable diseases — this project developed a prevention program aiming for a 5% reduction in obesity prevalence, which lowers long-term claims for diabetes and hypertension.
If you are a content creator dealing with a lack of localized health curricula — this project developed sustainable health classroom modules and motivational interviewing techniques for adolescents in urban settings.
Based on available project data, specific pricing is not provided, but the project includes a cost-effective evaluation to determine the financial viability of the intervention.
The project aims to provide evidence on how to implement and scale the intervention across three rapidly urbanizing cities in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Based on available project data, there is no mention of patents or specific licensing terms; the focus is on co-designed health modules and implementation strategies.
The project runs from 2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31, with the first period focused on research and co-design.
The program integrates with urban Health & Demographic Surveillance Systems and links adolescents to healthcare workers through health talks.
The consortium is heavily academic, consisting of 13 partners from 7 countries, including 7 universities and 5 research organizations. There are 0 industry partners and 0 SMEs, indicating the project is currently in a high-evidence research phase rather than a commercial development phase.
Contact Karolinska Institutet regarding the implementation of the sustainable health modules.
Contact SciTransfer to find partners for scaling these health interventions in other LMIC markets.
