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We would like to introduce you to Shafiur Rahaman, a Research Project Manager for Eawag in the Rohingya refugee camps at Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. Shafiur is coordinating the project activities of the ETH4D Research Challenge “Community governance of emergency sanitation” in the field. The project examines the governance structure of sanitation interventions and tests innovative community-based monitoring of sanitation systems.

Entrepreneurial master students, doctoral candidates and post-docs can apply for the next round of the Pioneer Fellowship by 1 September 2020. ETH4D offers support for projects that serve people in low- and middle-income countries. Get in touch with us!  

Meet ETH Zurich at the Digital Festival 2020! ETH4D in collaboration with the EcoVision Lab and the World Food System Center are hosting the AI for Sustainability session, where experts will share their perspective on Artificial Intelligence's potential in the field of sustainable development.

We are pleased to announce two grantees of the Special Covid-19 call, which supports research projects that address the negative impact of infectious diseases on the African continent. One project assesses the impact of iron deficiency anemia on vaccine efficacy in Kenya and the other project studies how to optimise the logistics preparedness for disease outbreaks in Uganda.