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NB: We are currently funding 8 projects (6 seed grants and 2 pilot projects) awarded in the first round of our funding scheme. Interested applicants should watch out for the second call for applications to be advertised by the end of June 2023 on D-SINE Africa website: www.dsineafricaub.org and on UB website: www.ubuea.cm.
Our long-term goal is to improve health equity.
As health disparities widen globally, achieving improvements in health equity between and within regions is an urgent priority. Currently, in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), health equity surveillance is not regularly implemented, in large part due to the difficulty in measuring socioeconomic status (SES). The lack of a quick, reliable metric of SES severely hinders researchers’ ability to study and reduce health disparities.