Environmental health research challenges in Africa

Research on women's health in Africa: issues, challenges, and opportunities.

Research on Women's Health in Africa: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities Chimaraoke O. Izugbara & Eleanor Krassen covan a African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya b Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden c School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa d Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University ...

Challenging times for environmental health in South Africa: the role of the Environmental Health Research Network.

Addressing planetary health challenges in Africa

Drawing on the report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health-Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch, this piece presents a discussion of the implications of the report's findings and conclusions for Africa. It explores the key planetary health challenges facing Africa and what Africa can do to address them. In addition to highlighting current and future...

Challenges and opportunities in environmental biosafety research.

Since the first commercial release of genetically modified (GM, also referred to as genetically engineered, GE) crops in the middle of 1990s, the research and development of transgenic biotechnology has made dramatic progress. To date, global cultivation area of GM crops has exceeded 120 million hectares (James, 2009) with extensive cultivation of herbicide-tolerant soybean and canola, insect-r...

Reproductive health research challenges

Scope of the journal Welcome to the journal 'Reproductive Health'. The Journal adopts the broad definition of reproductive health as endorsed by the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 [1]. Reproductive health is defined as a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in all matters relating to the reproductive system at all stages of life. Good reprodu...