Ibrahima Sy is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal. He is also Associated Researcher to the Research for Development Department at the Centre for Ecological Monitoring (CSE) in Dakar, Senegal. Dr. Sy completed his Ph.D. in Health Geography (Option Environment and Health in urban area) at the University of Strasbourg, France. Previously, he successively worked at the University of Strasbourg (UDS) as associated professor (2004-2006 and 2008-2013), the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS) as fellow researcher (2007-2009), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss-TPH) as South Project Leader (2009-2015). From January 2016 to June 2017, Dr. Sy

coordinated the Research for Development Unit and the Climate Change Reference Office of the Centre for Ecological Monitoring (CSE). Dr. Ibrahima Sy coordinated several research projects tackling the challenges of water, environmental sanitation, spatial epidemiology, climate change and health in Mauritania, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire in collaboration with several national institutions. The recent research projects that he coordinated at the CSE are ACASIS (Heat waves Alert in Sahel and Impact on Health) and CR4D (Climate Research for Development) on health impacts of heat waves in the North of Senegal. Also, he carried out numerous expertise in the field of climate change in relation to climate policy analysis, knowledge management and capacity building of actors and decision-makers. Sy area of interest is Water Sanitation, Spatial Epidemiology, Public Health environmental policies,

climate change, Sustainable development, etc.