Bandim Health Project and Sustainable Development Goal-1

Four short videos and a podcast introducing Bandim Health Project to new students at University of Southern Denmark with a focus on SDG-1 (End poverty in all its forms everywhere). 

SDG-module 1: An introduction to Guinea-Bissau

As part of the introduction to new students at SDU, Sabine M Damerow, Julie Vedel and Justiniano Martins give an introduction to Guinea-Bissau, our research setting  and explain about some of the linkages between economic status and access to health services

 
SDG-module 2: Maria's story

As part of the introduction to new students at SDU, Julie Vedel presents a fictional (but realistic) story about how difficult it can be for mothers in Guinea-Bissau to get their children vaccinated

SDG-module 3: Linkages between poverty and ill-health
 

As part of the introduction to new students at SDU, Sabine M Damerow explains how illness and poverty are interlinked: how expenditure on health can lead to poverty and how poverty can exacerbate the impact of illness. 

SDG-module 4: Challenges in examining health in low-income countries (in Danish)

As part of the introduction to new students at SDU, Julie Vedel presents some of the challenges in assessing health effects in Guinea-Bissau. She introduces some of the research that has been undertaken by the  Bandim Health Project. She furthermore explains how the health and demographic surveillance system which allows us to assess the real effects of health interventions functions. 

SDG-module 5: Researching the real-life effects of interventions 

As part of the introduction to new students at SDU, and Julie Vedel and Sabine M Damerow introduce their ongoing research projects in Guinea-Bissau