ARISE-DASH
Short description: DASH (Research Network for Design and Evaluation of Adolescent Health Interventions and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa) is a network of public health research and training institutions. DASH brings together researchers working in population health and epidemiology, public health, health economics, health systems research, implementation science, design research, and intervention and policy evaluation from seven countries in SSA – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda – and Germany. The DASH collaboration builds upon an established research network on adolescent health in SSA. The overarching and long- term goal for DASH is to boost adolescent health in SAA through rigorous population-based intervention and policy research.
DASH has 4 Workpackegs
⦁ Research
⦁ Capacity building
⦁ Networking
⦁ Policy Engagement & Research transfer
Project Aim: The overarching and long-term goal of the DASH is to promote adolescent health in Sub-Saharan Africa through rigorous population-based surveillance intervention and policy research. The key functions to address these objectives are to combine the efficient collection and use of important adolescent health data, and the employment of robust quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and evaluation with local domain-specific expert and stakeholder knowledge on the health domains of nutrition & physical activity, sexual & reproductive health, and mental health & violence.
Through its planned research activities, DASH has the potential to significantly strengthen the research infrastructure and evidence base and thereby improve adolescent health in Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, it will address important research gaps related to the need for interventions and policies, as well as their design, evaluation, and transferability.
Years of Implementation: The DASH project is being implemented from 2024 to 2028.