Project Team_v2

The people behind CHARTer

Our multidisciplinary team brings together researchers, designers, and health experts working together under CHARTer’s mission to generate evidence on how climate and heat exposures affect maternal and child health in Senegal and The Gambia.

Sokhna Thiam

PI; Environment-health epidemiology (Climate and Health)
African Population and Health Research Center (WARO)

Ana Bonell

Co-I: Clinical Environmental Epidemiology
LSHTM – MRC Unit The Gambia

Amanuel Abajobir

Co-I: Maternal health, policy analysis
African Population and Health Research Center

Adama Faye

Co-I: Public health – epidemiology
University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar

Jessica Banks

Project partner – Maternal health – epidemiology – co-design activities
LSHTM – MRC Unit The Gambia

Ravi Chhatpar

Project partner – Human-centered design
Dalberg Design

Sharon Njavika

Project partner – Human-centered design
Dalberg Design

Veronique Filippi

Project partner – Maternal health – epidemiology – co-design activities
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Diama Diop Dia

Team member – Policy Engagement, Communication and Advocacy
African Population and Health Research Center (WARO)

Abdoulaye Moussa Diallo

Team member Data Analyst -Sociology – anthropology
African Population and Health Research Center (WARO)

Mbène Lô

Team Member Data Analyst – Statistician
African Population and Health Research Center (WARO)

El Hadj Malick Sylla

Team Member Data Analyst -Food Systems, Environment and Health
African Population and Health Research Center (WARO)
About Us
Aim: To unveil the impacts of environmental heat exposures such as high ambient temperature, drought, rainfall, flooding on access to antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) services as well as on maternal, newborn and child mortality in Senegal and The Gambia
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Address
Dakar, Senegal
Phone Number
+221 33 867 99 36
Email
ech@aphrc.org

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