Urban Climates and their effect on malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa

For the past decades, urbanization of sub-Saharan cities have been increasing. Up until recently, it was assumed that malaria was a rural disease because imperviousness of cities would avoid the presence of stagnant water, a necessary element for mosquitoes to live. However, as this urbanization is mostly unplanned, new interests have been focusing on understanding how malaria is transmitted across and within cities. The PhD project, by being part of a BELSPO research project named The Remote Sensing for Epidemiology of African CiTies project (REACT), aims at understanding the climate processes that might have an influence on the risk of malaria transmission. Coupling of remote sensing and regional / urban climate modelling techniques at high resolution are used to better understand climate drivers in the area and to feed a malaria risk model.

Publication year:2020

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