The Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub is a research and training center focused on environmental and occupational health in Eastern Africa. Formally launched in 2015, the Hub grew from a joint planning grant awarded to the University of Southern California in the United States (U.S.) and Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia by the Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOHealth) program through the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2012.
The Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub headquarters are housed at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and Columbia University in the U.S. for the research and training components, respectively. Research initiatives are ongoing across eastern Africa and are led by researchers at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Makerere University, Uganda; and the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The Hub will congregate at the Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi for a workshop focusing on its key targeted areas: (i) Household and outdoor air quality and health; (ii) Occupational health, with emphasis on agriculture; and (iii) Climate change and health.
