Gilles Forget
Gilles Forget, Regional director of the International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) West and Central Africa office in Dakar, Senegal, is retiring after 25 years with the Canadian institute. Forget’s career at IDRC was largely spent working in health, science, and the environment. In 1997, Forget became team leader for the newly established Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health programme. In April 2008, the Government of Senegal bestowed on him the title of Officer of the National Order of Merit of Senegal.
One of the achievements he is particularly proud of is the Aquatox project which he started with his colleague Andrés Sanchez. The project “put into the hands of people, even those with little or no education, very simple tests that allow them to determine if water is contaminated by pesticides, chemicals, and so on. By training kids in primary schools in 26 countries, including Canada, to use small testing kits, we showed that anyone can do this.”
Source: IDRC, July 2008
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Yvette Savard // July 8, 2008 at 12:00 pm |
Je connais Gilles Forget depuis fort longtemps et je peux vous assurer qu’il a travaillé avec constance et patience à vulgariser la science et à la mettre au profit de tous. Bravo Gilles!