GhScientific: Know Your Environment, Protect Your Neighbour

The project aims to educate the public and raise awareness of the full impactsof their deteriorating environment on community health. This will be achieved by connecting high school students with scientists and STEM Ambassadors to research on the impacts of pollutants in their local environments on communityhealth and to further design social innovative solutions to resolve them. Findings will be communicated to the larger community through events and the media to help raise awareness. A final report of findings will also be published and made available in the public domain. The project will involve an introductory workshop with Scientist from the University of Ghana and experts from both the Ghana Health Service and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to demonstrate the effect of environmental pollutants on health. This session aims to stimulate the minds of the students and prepare them for the tasks at hand. Science clubs will then be tasked to design and run a project which will involve identifying a health condition, an environmental trigger associated with the chosen condition and a means of raising awareness to help the citizenry consider the impact of human activity on the environment and in turnhuman health. Through the project, training programs and by having an active role for the high school pupils, undergraduate science students, Scientists, professionals in the environmental and health sector and the community, we will also be encouraging a culture of engaging the public with science.

Programme: International Engagement Award

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