Summary
Liberty Makacha is a Research Postgraduate (PhD student) in the Air Pollution Exposure Science, Environmental Research Group. His general research interests are on exploring granular effects of environmental stresses on human life, delivering geographically PRECISE approaches to countering challenges on society’s most valuable resource – Its human capital, as well as implementing scalable geographically sensitive mobile health tools on the African continent. The PhD work aims to bring new and improved ways of characterizing personal pollution exposures for linkages to health trajectories in the life course through investigating contextual patho-aetiologies of adverse maternal outcomes as modified by air pollution across contrasting sub-Saharan African geographies using PRECISE-DYAD (Kenya and Gambia) and PRECISE-HOME (Mozambique) cohorts of pregnant African women and their babies formerly enrolled in the PRECISE PROJECT. Besides providing context to the geographies of seasonality of exposure and the extent to which adverse maternal health outcomes follow geographically patterned response functions, his research will also bridge the huge data gaps on air pollution science in African settings.