Title of the centre:
WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development
Director / Head:
Dr. Stephen B. Fawcett
Dr. Jerry Schultz
Institution:
Work Group for Community Health and Development
University of Kansas
Address:
4082 Dole Center 1000 Sunnyside Drive - 66045 Kansas
66045
Kansas
Town:
Lawrence
Country:
USA
Region:
AMRO
Phone:
(1-785) 864 0533
Fax:
(1-785) 864 5281
Date of Designation:
15/Oct/2004
Last Redesignation:
15/Oct/2012
Expiry:
15/Oct/2016
Date of Discontinuation:
Terms of Reference:
- To build capacity for community health and development globally using expanded resources of the Community Tool Box
- To use participatory evaluation methods to extend the evidence base for how communities create conditions that promote health and health equity.
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Subjects:
- Healthy Cities
- Health promotion & education
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Types of activity:
- Information dissemination
- Evaluation
- Coordination of activities carried out by several institutions (e.g. other WHO collaborating centres)
WHO organization wide expected result:
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6.1 - Advice and support provided to Member States to build their capacity for health promotion across all relevant programmes, and to establish effective multisectoral and multidisciplinary collaborations for promoting health and preventing or reducing major risk factors. |
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7.3 - Social and economic data relevant to health collected, collated and analysed on a disaggregated basis (by sex, age, ethnicity, income, and health conditions, such as disease or disability). |
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Responsible Officer:
MORALES Sofia Leticia
Phone:
Technical Counterpart:
TANG Kwok-Cho
Phone:
+41 22 79 13299
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
Link to eWork
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