Priscilla Ouma

Board Director | Environmental Health & WASH Specialist

Priscilla Ouma is an Environmental Health Specialist with a background in environmental management and microbiology. Their work focuses on understanding and addressing environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with particular emphasis on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and ecological systems.

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Role at OHAAN

As Board Director and Environmental Health Specialist, they lead the environmental pillar of OHAAN’s One Health approach, supporting the identification and mitigation of environmental pathways contributing to antimicrobial resistance.

Their work focuses on integrating environmental risk reduction strategies into AMR responses across human, animal, and ecosystem interfaces.

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Technical Expertise & Implementation

• Environmental AMR surveillance and risk assessment
• Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems strengthening
• Waste management and environmental contamination control
• Community-based environmental health interventions

They support the application of practical, context-specific approaches to reduce environmental transmission of antimicrobial resistance.

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Programme Impact

• Identification of AMR hotspots in water systems, soils, and waste streams
• Improved waste management and safer environmental health practices
• Increased community awareness of environmental AMR transmission pathways
• Strengthened integration of environmental health into One Health AMR responses

Their work supports healthier ecosystems and improved health outcomes, particularly in communities at the human–animal–environment interface.

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Innovation & Systems Approach

They apply systems-based approaches to environmental health, focusing on linking environmental data with human and animal health systems.

• Developing practical strategies to reduce environmental AMR transmission
• Promoting community-driven and sustainable environmental interventions

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Policy & One Health Contribution

• Generating evidence to inform environmental AMR strategies and guidelines
• Supporting integration of environmental health into national AMR action plans
• Aligning environmental interventions with global AMR priorities and Sustainable Development Goals