Dr. Kevin Njabo is the UCLA Pritzker Education Fellow and Associate Director/Africa Director for the UCLA Center for Tropical Research and the Congo Basin Institute. He also holds a joint Faculty position at both the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability as well as the School of Public Health. He is part of the senior leadership team primarily responsible for overseeing the center’s research portfolio and the ongoing delivery and development of the Congo Basin Institute (CBI), serving Central Africa. In doing so, he provides content direction and leadership to an existing team in setting the center’s core research priorities and in fundraising for research projects providing direct and strategic links to regional and international partners and collaborators. He also provides assurance for all research work and reports carried out in Africa, including proposals, ethical reviews, and research donor reports. His broad areas of expertise include educational research, environmental health, ecology, ornithology, global collaborations and evolution of emerging tropical diseases

Kevin also serves as a visiting Professor to the National University of Rwanda and to the Higher Institute of Environmental Sciences (HIES) in Yaounde Cameroon. He is also a Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (ASI).

Kevin serves on several professional bodies including the Board of Governors and Global Vice President of the Society for Conservation Biology; Council Member of the Pan African Ornithological Congress Committee (PAOCC), 2008-2016, member of the International Association for Impact Assessment, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is also the Subject Editor for Conservation Letters, African Journal of Ecology, Conservation Biology Students Awards Abstracts; a Mentor for the SCB Africa Section Communications/Mentoring Program since 2007 and an invited reviewer for Molecular Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution; Ostrich: Journal African of Ornithology, IBIS, the International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, Parasitology and Vector Biology and Parasitology, British Ecological Society (BES), Biodiversity and Conservation (BIOC), and Climate Change.