Chronic Disease Prevention Research
Centre of Sousse
Tunisia
Reducing Chronic Diseases
The UnitedHealth Group & NHLBI Chronic Disease Initiative is supporting a global network of Collaborating Centers of Excellence to help combat chronic diseases in developing countries.Tunisia center of excellence, located in Sousse, is directed toward reducing the main behavioral risk factors at the community level: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity
Our program is directed toward reducing the main behavioral risk factors at the community level: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity.
Objectives of the research program
- Determine the effectiveness and feasibility of evidence-based interventions directed at tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity in adults and children.
- Develop a model for implementing and monitoring sustainable comprehensive community interventions in Tunisia and across North Africa and the Middle East .
- Train health officials from Tunisia and other countries in the North Africa and Eastern Mediterranean region who are interested in planning, implementing, or evaluating programs for chronic disease, prevention and control.
Training activities
- Organize national and international short-term training courses and workshops on community-based programs for chronic disease prevention and control.
- Organize national and international short-term training courses and workshops on the role of tobacco control in chronic disease prevention.
- Organize general training workshops and modules in research methodology skills, grant writing principles, statistical analysis, scientific communication, and burden of disease estimates for chronic diseases.
Partners
National Partners
University Hospital Farhat Hached Sousse:
Department of Epidemiology,
Department of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Occupational Health,Department of Endocrinology
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
Regional Direction of Health of Sousse, Primary Health Care, School Medicine Unit
Regional Direction of Education of Sousse
Regional Direction of Youth, Sport and Physical Education of Sousse
Group of Occupational Health of Sousse
Tunisian Heart Foundation
Tunisian Association of Life and Earth Sciences Teachers
Department of pediatrics, University hospital Sahloul
International partners
National Institute of Health and welfare (THL) of Helsinki, Finland
Duluth Medical Research Institute,
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Additional International Collaborators
Oxford Health Alliance
MATRIX Public Health Solutions, Inc.
World Health Organization (WHO) Office in Tunisia
Contact :
Pr Hassen Ghannem
Department of Epidemiology
Univerity Hospital Farhat Hached
4000 Sousse, Tunisia hassen.ghannem@rns.tn
Tel : (+216) 73 219 496
