Male | groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa | Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Campaign Manager, Global Green and Healthy Hospital (GGHH) initiative in Africa
I work as an Environmental Health Campaigner for groundWork, tasked with:
Developing the GGHH membership outreach and engagement in Africa.
Assisting hospitals to reduce their environmental footprint.
Training of environmental health practitioners on sustainable management of healthcare waste.
Conducting baseline assessment and constructing case studies that show progress and achievement of member hospitals.
Generally, I am passionate about training environmental health practitioners, building their capacity to be aware of factors in the environment that affect health such that prevention of ill health and injury plays a key role in their thinking and, invariably, in the work that they do. In future, I see myself as a lecturer because I enjoy sharing knowledge on environmental health – creating a cadre of environmental health practitioners that will advocate for environmental issues that affect public health. Currently I have a Masters in Public Health, enrolling for a PhD next year.
