Impact of Climate Change on Health in Africa (PDF)

Professor Amal Saad-Hussein (Corresponding editor)
Emeritus Professor of Environmental and Preventive Health




Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Institute of Environment & Climate Change Research, National Research Centre, Egypt


Prof. Saad-Hussein obtained her Master and MD degrees in Public Health and Environmental Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. She was former Dean of Environment and Climate Change Research Institute (2016-2020) and former Head of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department (2011-2016), National Research Centre (NRC), Egypt. She is a member of Climate Change National Committee, National Committee of Toxicology, and the Environmental Research Council. She is expert and reviewer in WGII-IPCC and internal expert in the Central Administration of Climate Change, EEAA. She obtained several scientific prizes: Technological Creation Prize (2006), Prize of Environmental Research and Environmental Education (2007), and the Certificates of Excellence in Scientific Productions for years 2009-2015. She published around 81 international and 21 national publications, and she was the principal investigator of several national projects funded by ASRT, STDF, and NRC, in the field of environmental health impacts and design strategies for prevention and control.









Professor Reda Elwakil (Co-editor)


Emeritus Professor of Tropical Medicine


Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt





Prof. Reda Elwakil had his MD degree in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Tropical Medicine Department, Ain Shams University 1986. He worked actively in the same department in teaching, training, clinical practice, and research in the fields of tropical medicine, gastroenterology, hepatology, infectious diseases, and endoscopy since 1981. Currently, he is the permanent secretary of the African Middle East