Strengthening Capacity to Manage and Cope with Pandemics in Ethiopia and Tanzania (SCCOPET) project addresses a combination of Covid-19 related challenges via exchange and strengthening of capacities and facilities in the areas of research, education, and outreach. Partner institutions involved include KCMUCo in Tanzania, SUZA in Zanzibar, and UCPH and DTU in Denmark, who have partnered under the BSU programme for several years. New partners include JU in Ethiopia and their longstanding partner UiO. The partners will interact in different south-south and south-north constellations to support and complement each other. THE Project Lead IS KCMUCo and UCPH north co-lead. The started Dec. 2022  and ending April 2025.

The overall objective of SCCOPET is to strengthen sustainable health care delivery in settings marked by the impact of Covid-19, recurrent natural hazards intensified by climate change, and in some places also internal conflict and displacement. The target groups include university students and staff, frontline health care workers/professionals (FHCW/Ps), patients, and the general population.

The project comprises four work packages (WP1-4) each involving an education, research and outreach component. WP1 and WP2 will focus on developing capacities related to Covid-19 disease surveillance, diagnostic capacity and vaccination programme delivery; WP3 will support mental health among frontline health care workers and professionals (FHCW/Ps) engaged in disease surveillance and vaccine delivery; the final, crosscutting WP4 will develop online and blended learning resources related to the topics of the three other WPs for integration into relevant curricula mainly at the partner institutions. WP4 will also facilitate dissemination of resources and project findings and lead outreach activities to relevant external stakeholders.