CDRISK5: Multi-Component Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Diets and Physical Inactivity among Adolescents In Nairobi, Kenya (Generation-H project)

This project aims to reduce two important modifiable risk factors for NCDs: unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and their underlying social determinants among adolescents (aged 10-19 years) living in various socio-economic urban communities in Nairobi, Kenya, and Accra, Ghana.

This entails co-designing, deploying, and evaluating strategies for implementation of evidence and theory-based interventions mapped onto the 7 “WHO Best Buys” and other recommended interventions for unhealthy diet and physical inactivity.

This project will increase awareness, health literacy and motivate adolescents to increase self-efficacy, guide self-regulatory actions, and adopt positive health behaviors such as dissuasion from physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors and/or unhealthy food choices to prevent NCDs.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Partners:

• Academic Medical Center (AMC)
• University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), the Netherlands
• School of Public Health, University of Ghana (UG), Ghana
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France
• Loughborough University (LU), UK
• Sciensano, Belgium

Funder: European Commission (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07-03)

Project Team:

• Gershim Asiki
• Peter Otieno
• Richard Sanya
• Samuel Iddi
• Sharon Mugo
• Joan Kinuthia