Second Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
29 October -2 November 2022

Prof Kevin Njabp (Participant)

I am the UCLA Pritzker Education Fellow and Associate Director/Africa Director for the UCLA Center for Tropical Research and the Congo Basin Institute. I also hold a joint Faculty position (Associate Adjunct Professor) at both the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability as well as the School of Public Health. I am part of the senior leadership team primarily responsible for overseeing the center's research portfolio and the ongoing delivery and development of the Congo Basin Institute (CBI), serving Central Africa. In doing so, he provides content direction and leadership to an existing team in setting the center's core research priorities and in fundraising for research projects providing direct and strategic links to regional and international partners and collaborators. He also provides assurance for all research work and reports carried out in Africa, including proposals, ethical reviews, and research donor reports. My broad areas of expertise include educational research, environmental health, ecology, ornithology, global collaborations and evolution of emerging tropical diseases I also serve as a visiting Professor to the National University of Rwanda and to the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences (HIES) in Yaounde Cameroon. He is also a Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (ASI). I serve on several professional bodies including the Board of Governors and Global Vice President of the Society for Conservation Biology (2016-2020)