Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation

Abstract

For more than 25 years, he has been engaged in eco-epidemiology research, exploring links between water quality, environmental pollution, climate change and environment-sensitive diseases. He teaches and directs research on climate change and health, disasters and public health, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is the author of several publications, has supervised the work of several young African researchers and has contributed to many international conferences and panels of experts on water, environment, ecosystems, climate change, health and SDGs. He is currently a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II on "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), for which there is a call for further efforts in all sectors for transition and transformation. He was a Co-Chair of the 5 th World Sustainability Forum organized by MDPI in 2015, among several other contributions to international conferences and initiatives on the topic of the SDGs, including this SDG Book Series "Transitioning to Sustainability".