Nonvignon Marius Kedote

Nonvignon Marius Kedote is a teacher‐researcher in the Health‐Environment Department at the Regional Institute of Public Health Comlan Alfred Quenum of the University Abomey‐Calavi in Benin. Affiliated with the Community of Ecohealth Practices network for West and Central Africa since 2011 and with the Thematic Health Research Program of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education since 2016, he develops his expertise in ecosystem approaches and on ecosystem pollution and health in West Africa. He coordinated among other projects "The Ecohealth Chair on Urban Air Pollution and Respiratory Noncommunicable Diseases in West Africa " (2014‐2020) and " The West Africa‐Michigan Charter II for GEOHealth " (2015‐2021) in five francophone countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal). He also works on the planning, implementation and evaluation of innovative community‐based

interventions to improve air quality and population’s health. He has over 15 years of experience in bioethics research, training and consulting. Also, he has been and is a member of several health research ethics committees.