LULI - Lung health across life course
Creating a multi-site, multi-disciplinary pan-African platform for clinical, epidemiological and applied health research into the aetiology, prevention, and treatment of non-communicable respiratory disease across the life course.
Strategic aim
To create a multi-site multi-disciplinary pan-African platform for clinical, epidemiological and applied health research underpinned by regional and international collaborative research and delivery networks that will allow research into the aetiology, prevention and treatment of non-communicable respiratory disease across the life course.
Projects
Project 1 Exposure to air pollution in adults with chronic non-communicable respiratory diseases in Benin and Cameroon: a cross-sectional study
Project 2 Prevalence survey and bacteriology of post-pulmonary tuberculosis disease in Tanzania
Project 3 Prevalence and clinical characteristics of post-tuberculosis lung disease among former tuberculosis patients in Cape Town, South Africa
Project 4 A cross-sectional study of urinary triclosan levels in Nigerian and Ghanaian children with asthma and the association between triclosan levels and asthma control
Project 5 A cross-sectional study of the characteristics of adults with chronic respiratory symptoms attending outpatient departments in hospitals in Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan
Project 6 Life after TB II in Malawi
Project 7 Burden of chronic lung disease among adolescent and adult patients 1-5 years post PTB in Uganda
Outputs
- Development of life exposure questionnaires
- Phase I of the Spirometry Training (self-reading of electronic book "Certificate of Competence in Foundational Spirometry")
- Phase II of the Spirometry Training by delivering a series of Spirometry and Air Quality Training courses across Sub-Saharan Africa
- Deliver the Pan African Thoracic Society MECOR capacity building programme