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The 'Berkeley-Tulane Initiative on Vulnerable Populations' conducts empirical research in order to give voice to survivors of mass violence related to war crimes, justice and reconstruction, health and human rights. On-the-job training and mentorship builds local capacity in data collection and analysis as research is executed as well as providing fellowships to students.
The US/China Energy and Environmental Technology Center (EETC) is funded by the US Dept. of Energy and China's Ministry of Science and Technology. It was established at Tulane University and Tsinghua University in 1997 and has branch offices at the China Coal Research Center and Shanghai. EETC has developed a broad based bi-national team of industry, government, and academic professionals focused on commercializing energy and environmental technologies & services in China. Currently, we are working on clean coal technologies such as (a) coal gasification and liquefaction (b) improving the performance of industrial boilers (c) coal mine methane utilization (d) energy/steam efficiency optimization (e) CO2 capture (f) sequestrations.
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The Payson center supports the UNAIDS secretariat by providing technical assistance and capacity building within three of UNAIDS M&E department’s (MOE) projects: (1) the normative guidance project by assisting the Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) technical working groups fulfill their roles and deliver their products (2) the reporting project focusing on United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) guidelines and reporting (3) the M&E capacity building project for global/regional support to the implementation of the third one (one national M&E system in each country) .
Based on their extensive experience developing technology transfer programs in low income countries, the Payson Center for Technology Transfer and International Development of Tulane University (hereafter Payson) will initiate ICT development in northern Uganda through 4 Components over the next 3 years: 1. Empowering Youth: Outreach ICT training program 2. Empowering Youth: University Scholarship Program 3. ICT Capacity Building at Gulu University 4. ICT Assisted Resources for CBO’s and NGO’s
The 'Berkeley-Tulane Initiative on Vulnerable Populations' conducts empirical research in order to give voice to survivors of mass violence related to war crimes, justice and reconstruction, health and human rights. On-the-job training and mentorship builds local capacity in data collection and analysis as research is executed as well as providing fellowships to students.
Payson Center oversees and assesses the cocoa sector’s child labor certification, monitoring, verification systems, and project activities. The project also generates the information needed to guide and measure progress towards objectives outlined in the Harkin-Engel Protocol.
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In order to assist the Rwandan government in the provision of Anti Retrovirals to people living with HIV, the Payson Center developed TRACnet, a dynamic information technology solution designed to collect, store, retrieve, and disseminate critical program, drug, and patient information related to HIV/AIDS care and treatment. By leveraging existing infrastructure, TRACnet is being deployed to increase the efficiency of Rwanda's HIV/AIDS program management, and enhance the quality of patient care.
The 'Berkeley-Tulane Initiative on Vulnerable Populations' conducts empirical research in order to give voice to survivors of mass violence related to war crimes, justice and reconstruction, health and human rights. On-the-job training and mentorship builds local capacity in data collection and analysis as research is executed as well as providing fellowships to students.
Tulane University's Payson Center conducted research regarding knowledge, skills and competencies (KSC's) for teaching hospital staff in order to identify existing gaps in training and curricula materials. The center then conducted skills assessments and an onsite review of personnel and procedures at the hospital. Utilizing standard US human resources formulae, the team assessed gaps and recommended amelioration techniques in an effort to raise the standards of competency of the staff and health professionals.
Tulane’s Payson Center is strengthening the capacity of the Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) and the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) so they may provide effective public health leadership for Uganda and Tanzania and catalyze public health leadership training throughout the east African region. These efforts are accomplished by establishing long term partnerships between academic institutions in the United States and East Africa with a focus on curriculum revision; development of in-service, short-term training of public health practitioners; integration of appropriate information and instructional design technologies; and improving professional development activities for public health leaders.
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The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the West African Health Organization (WAHO) and its member states to contribute to the socioeconomic development, health and nutrition of West Africa. More specifically the project seeks to link together the focal points (individuals of the ECOWAS member states) for nutrition and blindness both personally and electronically to faster information exchange, best practices, and communication. HKI has partnered with the Tulane University Payson Center (TUPC) and WAHO to carry out the project over three years.
This program is broken into four tasks designed to focus on ARV management systems and policy development. The tasks focus on regional strategies for improved ARV management and distribution, development and coordination of policies at the ministerial level, establishment of a prototype to implement final policies at the country level, trainings on policy implementation, and development of an operations research unit and ARV database to assist countries with the management of ARVs. This project is focused in ECOWAS countries with the assistance of WAHO.
Tulane University’s overall responsibilities will focus on working to improve access to and strengthen the quality of malaria, nutrition and child health interventions provided by the decentralized health system and, specifically, to assist the GOR and its partners to expand the range of child survival, nutrition, and malaria services available, both facility-based and community-based, as well as to increase and ensure the quality of those services in the USAID target health districts.
Tulane’s Payson Center is strengthening public health leadership and district health management capacity in Rwanda, especially focusing on the critical problems of HIV, malaria, child survival, and FP/RH through a collaborative partnership with the National University of Rwanda School of Public Health. This partnership seeks to reinforce the local institution that is responsible for training national and district health leadership as well as providing a local organization that is capable of undertaking necessary applied research and strategic information management to support major health initiatives in the country.
This long-term project, funded by EPA under a program called "People, Planet, and Prosperity", characterizes the multiplicity of waste streams in New Orleans East in order to fashion an "Industrial Ecology" that will convert a, economically and environmentally distressed situation into a more positive one. Environmental and social injustice is the focus of project; by converting environmental liabilities into clean sources of economic activity, the Payson center is working at the intersection of human need and environmental sustainability.
The US/China Energy and Environmental Technology Center (EETC) is funded by the US Dept. of Energy and China's Ministry of Science and Technology. It was established at Tulane University and Tsinghua University in 1997 and has branch offices at the China Coal Research Center and Shanghai. EETC has developed a broad based bi-national team of industry, government, and academic professionals focused on commercializing energy and environmental technologies & services in China. Currently, we are working on clean coal technologies such as (a) coal gasification and liquefaction (b) improving the performance of industrial boilers (c) coal mine methane utilization (d) energy/steam efficiency optimization (e) CO2 capture (f) sequestrations.
Tulane University’s Payson Center provides capacity building and technical assistance in HIV & AIDS-related 1) strategic and operational planning, 2) national and project-level monitoring & evaluation, 3) ICT/GIS, 4) research and 5) management to CDC (Atlanta and Rwanda) as well as Rwanda’s national institutions: CNLS, TRAC, NUR-SPH. We also designed and established the Rwanda’s national: HIV & AIDS digital library (RNHDL) and HIV & AIDS Public Interest Fellowship (RHPIF).
The program places accredited teaching professionals, administrators and college professors in sub-Saharan African countries to help improve the educational systems of selected nations. The Payson Center has conducted yearly trainings with the program in order to develop the teachers’ knowledge, skills and competencies. Trainings concentrate on teaching classes, assisting in the development of improved methods of school curriculum, strengthening administration and management capabilities in educational settings in African nations, and providing innovative methods and pedagogical techniques for instruction in classroom settings.
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The program was set up as a six-week intensive course. The interdisciplinary training-of-trainers HIV/AIDS course consisted of a variety of topics that are of pressing importance to the sub-region, including: HIV/AIDS and development, methodology, research ethics, behavioral change, project management and evaluation, financial and logistics management, IEC strategies for community participation, legal and policy aspects, and learning how to learn with technology. The course methodology ensures that all participants will acquire a strategic set of skills, knowledge and competencies that can be applied both in instructing others and in addressing HIV/AIDS and other development problems directly.
This project focuses on the desirability of family planning and reduction of the spread of STD/HIV infections in selected countries (primarily Francophone) in West and Central Africa. Tulane is the prime subcontractor to JHPIEGO for the Operations Research component of this project, designed to test alternative strategies for change and to promote the use of operations research as a management tool. The contract supports applied research, integration of Operations Research into Public Health Schools, and other institution-building activities in the region. Tulane is also responsible for monitoring the larger program including service delivery, information dissemination, education communication and training.
The program places accredited teaching professionals, administrators and college professors in sub-Saharan African countries to help improve the educational systems of selected nations. The Payson Center has conducted yearly trainings with the program in order to develop the teachers’ knowledge, skills and competencies. Trainings concentrate on teaching classes, assisting in the development of improved methods of school curriculum, strengthening administration and management capabilities in educational settings in African nations, and providing innovative methods and pedagogical techniques for instruction in classroom settings.
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The INTERHANDS program was established to educate local governmental, military, and private partners in understanding the latest trends in disaster prevention, mitigation, response and recovery. The program was designed to bring together all personnel actively working to shape disaster policy. The training concentrated on the development of improved methods of disaster management in a developing country setting.
The program places accredited teaching professionals, administrators and college professors in sub-Saharan African countries to help improve the educational systems of selected nations. The Payson Center has conducted yearly trainings with the program in order to develop the teachers’ knowledge, skills and competencies. Trainings concentrate on teaching classes, assisting in the development of improved methods of school curriculum, strengthening administration and management capabilities in educational settings in African nations, and providing innovative methods and pedagogical techniques for instruction in classroom settings.
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The program places accredited teaching professionals, administrators and college professors in sub-Saharan African countries to help improve the educational systems of selected nations. The Payson Center has conducted yearly trainings with the program in order to develop the teachers’ knowledge, skills and competencies. Trainings concentrate on teaching classes, assisting in the development of improved methods of school curriculum, strengthening administration and management capabilities in educational settings in African nations, and providing innovative methods and pedagogical techniques for instruction in classroom settings.
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The "Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI)" is an interagency initiative funded in part by USAID. This initiative addresses the challenges of programming international assistance to achieve health security within the context of increasingly frequent and severe conflict-related crises (complex emergencies) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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This joint project of Tulane University and the University of South Florida, in partnership with the United States Southern Command facilitated collaborative training, research, education and communication services with civil-military agencies throughout the western hemisphere to ensure operational readiness in humanitarian and consequence management missions.
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A regional project focusing on reproductive health but also with HIV/AIDS and child survival components. Five different agencies (Tulane, JHPIEGO, JHU/CCP, PSI, FHI) where each prime contractors and worked with a Unified Management Team approach to jointly program and executed yearly work plans supporting country offices and activities in Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo and Cameroon. Tulane was responsible for the Operations Research, Monitoring and Evaluation and Institutional Capacity Building components of this regional project while the other agencies provided the service delivery components.
