@GEOHealthHub

Research & training center focused on environmental and occupational health in eastern Africa. @USCGlobalHealth + @AddisAbabaUnive

 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
geohealthhub.org
Joined September 2013
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We're tracking #airpollution to fill sub-Saharan Africa's data gap. Curious to learn more about our collaborative @USCGlobalHealth & @AddisAbabaUniveheck hub? Check us out in @nature! nature.com/articles/d41586-0…. Supported by @NIEHS & @Fogarty_NIH #GlobalHealth #SSAfrica
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Zhi Yang, PhD@HydrxFids21 Oct 2019
Thank you to ALL @KimSiegmund1 @pmarjora @kiros_berhane @Doctor_BT and other faculty for making my PhD experience more enjoyable. If you'd like to apply to our PhD program in biostatistics and know about PhD life as an international student, please feel free to DM me for details!
USC Biostatistics@USCBiostat21 Oct 2019
Congratulations @zhiiiyang! You were an asset to our #USCBiostat program, and mentor to those around you. All of us @uscphs thank you!
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Amazing #USCHomecoming weekend with some of our favorite people!✌️ #tuesdayvibes #USCmph #publichealth
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Mark your calendars for our Hot Topics In Public Health Webinar to be hosted this Thursday, October 24 at 12pm PDT. Topic: “Locations of Licensed and Unlicensed Cannabis Retailers in California: A Threat to Health Equity?" Sign up here: event.on24.com/eventRegistra…
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Engineer Bainomugisha, from @MakerereU #computerscience presents on design and deployment of low cost technology for #airquality monitors in #Kampala. Great work being done to monitor quality of Kampala air @KCCAUG @GEOHealthHub #LungScienceSymposium #Scienceforhealthylungs
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#Airquality for better #Health in #Africa workshop with government participants from #Botswana #Benin #Ethiopia and cities #Nairobi and #CapeTown #Addis #Gaborone #Kampala bringing together #Science and #policy @SK_UNEP and an amazing number of presenters! – at Kampala, Uganda
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Co-investigators @kiros_berhane (@USC) and @Jon_Samet (@ColoradoSPH) are working with researchers in eastern #Africa in investigate #airpollution as part of the Eastern Africa @GEOHealthHub, supported by @Fogarty_NIH @NIEHS @CDCgov @IDRC_CRDI. Learn more in this Q&A!
Fogarty at NIH@Fogarty_NIH9 Apr 2019
Replying to @Fogarty_NIH
Dr. Jonathan Samet of @ColoradoSPH, a longtime Fogarty & #NIH grantee, discusses the results of his Fogarty-supported tobacco research, building capacity for air quality research in East Africa and reducing air pollution globally. #GlobalHealth fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealt…
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Our co-PI @kiros_berhane in @cenmag: “All #SubSaharan African countries suffer from lack of continuous #airquality monitoring and also lack of well-maintained and easily accessible data on #healthindicators..." cen.acs.org/environment/poll…

Air pollution kills 780,000 people in Africa each year

Modeling study from NASA suggests Saharan dust storms account for much of the burden

cen.acs.org
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Samuel Etajak@SEtajak11 Apr 2019
Replying to @GEOHealthHub
@GEOHealthHub @GeoHealth_News @ColoradoSPH @Fogarty_NIH The Eastern GEOHEALTH Hub Uganda Team Etajak Samuel &Agnes Nyambigambo made presentations on Air quality monitoring and Health.
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Samuel Etajak@SEtajak11 Apr 2019
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@GEOHealthHub @Fogarty_NIH @NIH @ColoradoSPH @MakSPH GEOHealth Hub Team Ug- having a discussion with Dr. Gwen Collman Director NIEHS and Dr. Esther Buregyeya shortly after panel discussion on Air quality monitoring And Health: Exp. from GEOHEALTH HUB_Ug
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In this @Fogarty_NIH Q&A with our co-investigator, @ColoradoSPH's @Jon_Samet, learn more about our work investigating #airpollution in #Ethiopia #Kenya #Rwanda and #Uganda!
Fogarty at NIH@Fogarty_NIH9 Apr 2019
Replying to @Fogarty_NIH
Dr. Jonathan Samet of @ColoradoSPH, a longtime Fogarty & #NIH grantee, discusses the results of his Fogarty-supported tobacco research, building capacity for air quality research in East Africa and reducing air pollution globally. #GlobalHealth fic.nih.gov/News/GlobalHealt…
@uonbi in partnership with GEOHealth Hub will undertake air quality monitoring and its impacts on the health of residents in Nairobi.The research will focus on the air quality in 10 schools, 6 hospitals and @UoNSchoolofLaw uonbi.ac.ke/content/uon-rese…
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ColoradoSPH@ColoradoSPH28 Feb 2019
Dean Samet took his #airquality expertise to Kenya to help the Eastern African GEOHealth Hub with their first #airpollution impact studies in Nairobi. GEOhealth is a collaboration between @USCGlobalHealth and others. bit.ly/2SAK5Yi #Globalhealth #PublicHealth
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ColoradoSPH@ColoradoSPH24 Jan 2018
Dean Samet is the Co-Principal Investigator for the @Fogarty_NIHgrant, supporting the US component of the East African GEOHealth Hub. This week, he is in Uganda with collaborators from #Rwanda and #Uganda, including Uganda's Vice President Edward Ssekandi.
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The #EasternAfrica GEOHealth hub is installing air-quality monitors in the capital cities of #Uganda, #Kenya, and #Rwanda to address gaps in air pollution and public health research in the region. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… via @nature

Air-pollution trackers seek to fill Africa’s data gap

Nature - Low-income sub-Saharan countries bear a high burden of air pollution, but are nearly unrepresented in the research on its health impacts.

nature.com
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Samuel Etajak@SEtajak21 Sep 2018
Replying to @JenniferMusisi
@KCCAED # Air pollution is a silent Killer, I am happy KCCA together with stakeholders such as Makerere University School of Public Health through Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub are working together in addressing air pollution in Kampala,
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The Sauce@TheSauceKe27 Feb 2019
University of Nairobi’s latest research could reveal the effects of Nairobi’s air pollution levels goo.gl/P1x1W8
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@GEOHealthHub Prof Stephen Anyango presents from @uonbi on issues on inadequate data to support #Policy to #beatairpollution #AfricaAQCities linking #Health and #AirPollution – at Nairobi, Kenya
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@GEOHealthHub Prof Wafula presents the project on #HealthAssessment by measuring #AirQuality and #Health data from @county_nairobi in also in #Uganda #Ethiopia #Rwanda – at Nairobi, Kenya
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We are talking #Sensor technology for #airquality to improve #AfricaAq in #Addis with @UNEnvironment and @UNHABITAT together with our partners in Ministry of Environment Forestry and #ClimateChange various key stakeholders @GEOHealthHub @SEIresearch hands on experience is shared! – at Ethiopia
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