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 This initiative is rooted in
public health microbiology and its implications for international
environmental policy and international environmental law. Building
upon a social ecological paradigm, this initiative brings research
techniques from the natural sciences and provides the theoretical basis
for a transdisciplinary consideration of problems of both health and
environment.
The integration of social and
natural sciences in the study of international environmental problems is
one of the organizing themes for this Center. The focus on
international cooperation in public health will center on research
initiatives in the following areas:
1. Environmental
assessment focusing on biological functions at the fundamental level of
ecological disturbance.
2. Development of
rapid molecular responses at the microbial community level to predict
large-scale ecosystem effects of toxic chemical pollution.
3. Comparative
analysis of chemical and biological indicators of water pollution suitable
for watershed management.
In 1999-2000,
Professor Oladele Ogunseitan was a Faculty Fellow of the
Global Environmental Assessment Project of the
Center for Science and International Affairs of the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor
Ogunseitan's work within the FRG and as part of Harvard Global Environment
Assessment (GEA) Project focused on the study of global environmental assessment
as a link between environmental science and environmental policy. Additional
information on the GEA project and Professor Ogunseitan's specific research can
be found at the following internet links,
GEA Project Participants: Alumni Fellows and
"Framing Vulnerability: Global Environmental Assessments and the African Burden
of Disease."
Professor
Ogunseitan is also conducting research in collaboration with the
Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR), a Switzerland-based foundation
supported by the World Health Organization to
address international equity issues in health, environment, and development.
Specifically, Professor Ogunseitan's research is focused on the projection of
public health impacts of climate change in countries in which the
"epidemiological transition" has not occurred, and the capacity for
environmental and health assessments depends on international cooperation in the
scientific and financial sectors.
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