Assaf Anyamba
Dr. Assaf Anyamba is a Senior Research Scientist with the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), University of Maryland Baltimore County and Applied Sciences, Earth Science Division, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. His research interests are represented across various interdisciplinary publications focusing on the extraction of interannual climate variability signals associated with El Niño Southern Oscillation from satellite land surface measurements, drought pattern analysis and early warning, and the applications of satellite data to global agricultural monitoring and ecologically coupled vectorborne diseases. His research and applications have supported operational programs of various federal government agencies including the Department of Defense – Defense Health Agency-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance, the United States Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA Agricultural Research Service - Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Food and Drug Administration among others.
Dr. Anyamba has been involved in various cross-cutting forums including National Academy of Sciences/ National Academy of Medicine (NAM): Vector-borne Diseases, Human Health and Climate Change, The Brookings Institution and The Rockefeller Foundation 17 Rooms Initiative on Transforming National and Global Epidemic Intelligence Systems, World Organization for Animal Health/ Office International des Epizooties (WAOH), World Health Organization (WHO) - Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) on Rift Valley fever, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES) among others. In addition, his work has been featured in various media outlets including National Public Radio (NPR) – Morning Edition, Science Friday, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) – Science in Action, Voice of America (VoA), in print and in the Netflix, Documentary Connected: Clouds, The Hidden Science of Everything. He currently serves on the editorial board of American Geophysical Union GeoHealth Journal.
Dr. Anyamba received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. He has a MA from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio and BA in Geography and Economics from Kenyatta University, Kenya.