President's Global Innovation Fund: Meet the Nine 2022 Awardees

Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology

Mailman School of Public Health

Project: "Pandemic Fallout: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and families in Kampala, Uganda"

Global Center: Nairobi
 

Assistant Professor of Global Health

Earth Institute

Project: "Youth-led advocacy initiative for
global citizenship, responsibility, and cooperation"

Global Centers: Istanbul and Tunis
 

Lamont Research Professor, Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics

Climate School

Project: "Collaborative studies of the causes and impacts of sea-level change in the Marmara Sea region"

Global Center: Istanbul

Senior Research Scientist

International Research Institute for Climate and Society

Project: "Linking Education on Adaptation and Resilience with National Systems in Ethiopia (Ethiopia-LEARNS)"

Global Center: Nairobi

Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy

Political Science Department, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Project: "Climate Change and Security: Regional Perspectives on a Global Issue"

Global Centers: Santiago and Istanbul

Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Project: "Solar Energy Desalination Analysis Tool-Chile (SEDAT-Chile)"

Global Centers: Santiago, Tunis and Amman
 

Lamont Research Professor, Biology and Paleo Environment

Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Project: "Development of a Prototype Kenya Ocean Monitoring and Decision Support System for Sustainable Coastal Resource Management under Climate Change"

Global Center: Nairobi
 

Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Project: "Collaborative development of machine learning tools for spatio-temporal prediction of dry spell distributions to predict water deficit risk and its impacts across Chile using climate models and historical information"

Global Center: Santiago

Assistant Professor

Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Project: "Early Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Global Oncology Capacity Building in South Africa"

Global Center: Nairobi