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.

To remain established as a pre-eminent Centre of excellence for innovation, rearch and research training; including research governance and leadership, in global environmental and occupational health, thus setting a standard where others measure success.

Our core values are rooted in accountability, ethics, fairness, honesty, integrity, objectivity, stewardship, and transparency.

To reshape training, education and research