The West Africa Center for Global Environmental & Occupational Health (WACGEOH) brings together faculty with a wide range of expertise committed to addressing the most pressing environmental and occupational health challenges facing West and Central Africa. These include issues such as environmental degradation, air pollution, waste generation, and their adverse impacts on human health and economic development.
Our work is anchored in an understanding that the region’s natural resource exploitation, climate change, land degradation, rapid urbanization, and increased human-animal interactions have created complex health and socioeconomic challenges. WACGEOH strives to be at the forefront of research and policy development aimed at finding sustainable, science-driven solutions to these issues.
Our strategic Goals
Advance Multi-disciplinary Understanding
We foster collaboration across disciplines to deepen insights into the physical, biological, and chemical stressors resulting from environmental and industrial activities. Through partnerships with academic and governmental institutions—locally and internationally—we aim to generate transformative knowledge that informs evidence-based action.
Promote Graduate and Postgraduate Training
By providing training opportunities at the master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels, we are building a pipeline of experts equipped to lead research and policy initiatives in environmental and occupational health throughout West and Central Africa.
Strengthen Institutional Research Capacity
We support African universities in conducting world-class research. Our goal is to produce evidence that shapes policies and implementation. Capacity-building includes grants, mentorship, and infrastructure development.
We align research priorities with local, national, and global needs. Through this, we empower institutions to lead scientific innovation.
Build and Sustain Collaborative Networks
We strengthen existing networks across Africa and form new alliances. These include governments, NGOs, academic institutions, and global partners. Our focus is on shared learning and resource pooling in ecosystem health.
We address co-morbidities at the environment-human-animal interface. Together, we create a lasting impact through research and practice.
The West Africa Center for Global Environmental & Occupational Health (WACGEOH) brings together faculty with a wide range of expertise committed to addressing the most pressing environmental and occupational health challenges facing West and Central Africa. These include issues such as environmental degradation, air pollution, waste generation, and their adverse impacts on human health and economic development.
Our work is anchored in an understanding that the region’s natural resource exploitation, climate change, land degradation, rapid urbanization, and increased human-animal interactions have created complex health and socioeconomic challenges. WACGEOH strives to be at the forefront of research and policy development aimed at finding sustainable, science-driven solutions to these issues.