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Projecting climate change impact on malaria transmission in Africa

November 30, 2020 | CEE Profiles | CEE Chief Editor

For Elfatih Eltahir, malaria symptoms always began the same way: chills that eventually gave way to high fever, a pounding headache, and nausea that persisted until this cycle finally broke days later. First encountered at a […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir’s group published new research that shows how to select village locations to prevent the spread of malaria in Africa

September 14, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir and former CEE graduate student Dr. Noriko Endo published a study on how wind direction directly effects the spread of malaria at the village scale. The findings were published in The […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir hosts workshop on “the Future of the Nile Water”

May 11, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Elfatih Eltahir, the Breene M. Kerr Professor of Hydrology and Climate, hosted an international workshop at MIT on “the Future of the Nile Water,” on April 26 and 27. At the workshop, Eltahir presented a […]

Professor Elfatih Eltahir writes about the Nile water conflict for Nature Middle East

December 22, 2017 | News | ceemit

Breene M. Kerr Professor Elfatih Eltahir wrote about the Nile water conflict for Nature Middle East. Eltahir discusses how population growth and the increased demand on water resources, in addition to the low agricultural productivity, are […]

Social enterprises empower communities

June 23, 2015 | 2015 News Releases | ceemit

MIT News Office MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability. During their time at MIT, two recent graduates, Sidhanth Kamath MBA ’15 and Sidhant Pai ’14, started two […]