Jacinter Amadi

Jacinter Amadi is a research fellow in charge of climate change and sexual and reproductive health interaction. She provides expertise to support research, development, and implementation of strategies that address evidence gap on the impacts of climate change on sexual and reproductive health outcomes. She also assists policy and program interventions development for climate resilience.

Before joining the Council, Amadi was a lecturer at the Department of Plant Sciences, Kenyatta University, Kenya. She has done research on impacts of climate variability on malaria risks and transmission; ecosystems responses to climate variability; and developed a framework for comprehensive malaria control and management within seasonal malaria transmission zones in Kenya.

Amadi holds a Ph.D. in Climate Change and Adaptation from the Institute of Climate Change and Adaptation (ICCA), University of Nairobi, Kenya.