We regret to share the passing of Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub External Advisory Board Member Professor Shem Oyoo Wandiga, Ph.D., EBS, FRSC. The Hub conveys our deepest condolences and utmost gratitude for Dr. Wandiga’s contributions. Please see University of Nairobi’s tribute to Dr. Wandiga here.
The Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub hosted an in-person EAC meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 7, 2024.
Three-day research training in Nairobi in March 2024.
Dr. Steven Chillrud conducted a weeklong exposure assessment training at AAU October 9-13, 2023.
AAU hosted GEOHealth for the Children's Health Study relaunch and Mother's Health Study in August 2023.
NIH-funded seminar takes on unique data issues around reducing environmental health hazards in Africa.
The journal Nature featured the Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub in an article April 11, highlighting the hub’s ongoing research to generate regional data on the health effects of air pollution.
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Working to save lives through prevention and policy, eastern African researchers trained with expert environmental health scientists at USC to lay the groundwork for air pollution and health research in their countries.
The recently established Global Environmental and Occupational Health Hub for Eastern Africa launched Jan. 3-5, 2016, at the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre headquarters at the Gullele Botanical Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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