Diarra Diouf

Dr Diarra Diouf is a meteorologist and climate scientist specialising in the study of climate variability and environmental change in West Africa and their impact on human health. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow working with the hospital team on the AFRIVERSE project, which aims to build African climate-health attribution data, digital tools and capacity. Her research focuses on the impact of weather extremes on emergency hospital admissions in South Africa, Cameroon and Kenya.

Diarra obtained her PhD in Meteorology and Climate Sciences from the Federal University of Technology in Akure, Nigeria, and has worked to understand the impact of large-scale climate drivers and atmospheric processes, such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and dust dynamics, on the occurrence of bacterial meningitis in the Sahel and Sudano-Guinean regions. She participated in the Erasmus mobility programme at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where she is a member of the TROPA research group. Her work contributes to advancing climate-health research and promoting public health resilience in Africa by providing evidence-based insights into climate-related issues.