River management for sustainable development on the Senegal River: integrating historical and hydrologic analysis of trade-offs between health and food, energy, and water resources.

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 River management for sustainable development on the Senegal River: integrating historical and hydrologic analysis of trade-offs between health and food, energy, and water resources.

Rebecca Wall, PhD candidate in African History at Stanford  University

 Rebecca Wall is a PhD candidate in African History. Her research    investigates how West African nations in the Senegal River basin balance  their individual sovereignty with the ecological and geographic imperative to jointly manage shared water resources. Rebecca is also interested in the gaps between planning and practice and how these are linked to the unintended consequences of development projects on local populations and ecologies. Rebecca has undertaken research in Senegal, Mali, and France and is 2018-2019 a Digital Humanities Graduate Research Fellow at the Stanford Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.  For more on Rebecca click here. 

Andrea Lund, PhD candidate in the  Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in  Environment  and Resources and a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow

Andrea Lund is a PhD candidate in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in  Environment and Resources and a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow. She is interested in the eco-epidemiology of infectious diseases and how social factors interact with environmental drivers of transmission. Her dissertation research focuses on the human-environment dynamics involved in the transmission of schistosomiasis in the Senegal River Basin. Previously, Andrea has led field work on the ecology of West Nile virus transmission in urban Atlanta as well as on the role of social factors in explaining environmental risk for cholera in the Dominican Republic. Andrea holds a master’s of public health in global epidemiology from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a bachelor of arts in biology and Spanish from the University of Minnesota, Morris. For more on Andrea click here.