Congratulations to our GDAR network member, Dr Gabriel Okello, for winning the Cambridge Award for Research Impact and Engagement in the ECR category!
These awards, formerly the Vice-Chancellor’s Award, are held annually to recognise exceptional achievement, innovation, and creativity in developing research engagement and impact plans with significant economic, social, and cultural potential.
Gabriel won with his project, applying multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches to tackle air pollution in rapidly urbanising African cities. This project catalysed Uganda’s first-ever Air Quality Standards, advancing policy and public health. It drove transformative growth in the e-mobility sector and battery-swapping stations. The Clean Air Network was established as a multi-regional community of practice for air quality management across Africa. The platform now provides real-time air quality data enabling evidence-based decision-making in Uganda and eight other African countries.
Read more about his work here.
Thank you Gabriel for your invaluable research and your kind words about the network:
“A huge thank you to the GDAR team members for their invaluable knowledge sharing, for strengthening my research capacity, and for the collaboration on various project work packages. I am truly grateful for the support and collaboration.”
Dr Gabriel Okello
Gabriel is a Senior Research Associate and King’s Global Sustainability Fellow in Air Quality and NCDs in the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).