Celestin Banamwana

Celestin Banamwana is an environmental health scientist with a Master's degree in Biodiversity Conservation Sciences from the National University of Rwanda, a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology Sciences, and an Advanced Diploma in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences. He began working at the National University of Rwanda in 2007 as an assistant researcher in a laboratory focusing on water and food quality assessment, a role he held until 2014. He has attended in-country trainings on water, food, and soil quality testing, contributed to developing analytical methods for traditional medicinal plants, and engaged with ISO/IEC 17025 (laboratory quality management) through collaborations with the University of Liège and KU Leuven in Belgium and with institutions in Tanzania. Banamwana is a lecturer at the University of Rwanda, School of Public Health, in Environmental Health Sciences. Since 2017 he has participated in the CARTA program as a PhD person (Cohort 7) and is enrolled at Makerere University School of Public Health in the Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health. He is pursuing research on ecological sanitation technologies and excreta management in Rwanda and is interested in the ecology of the human environment, sanitation and waste management, excreta microbiology, and infection prevention and control (IPC).