Research translated into trust, dialogue, and public impact.

Geo Diaffe Global brings research, field experience, public health communication, ethics, and storytelling together to make complex knowledge accessible, responsible, and useful for communities, institutions, and global audiences.

Research lens

From field realities to public understanding.

This work is grounded in public health, One Health, social science, AI ethics, community engagement, qualitative insight, and knowledge translation. It connects technical evidence with the people, languages, institutions, and communities that shape how knowledge is understood and used.

The goal is not only to communicate research, but to protect trust, strengthen participation, support ethical engagement, and help research serve public good.

Core expertise

Public health and research communication
Risk, crisis, and ethics in communication
One Health, zoonoses, climate, and early warning
AI ethics, digital transformation, and public trust
Community engagement, fieldwork, and qualitative methods
Research portfolio

Selected research and field work.

AI • One Health

AI4DECLIC-SN

Communication and community engagement for an AI and hybrid modeling initiative focused on early community detection and alert of zoonotic diseases in Senegal in the context of climate change.

Clinical Trial Communication

EBO-PEP

Communication and community engagement support for Ebola post-exposure prophylaxis research, including social mapping, community-centered messaging, ethical communication, and crisis-sensitive engagement.

AI Ethics

UNESCO RAM — Senegal

Work connected to AI readiness, ethics, public dialogue, responsible digital transformation, and the UNESCO RAM report on Senegal’s artificial intelligence readiness.

Qualitative Research

CNDN / Stunting Research

Behavior change and qualitative research work focused on nutrition, child development, families, communities, and public health communication.

Publication

Savoirs en Dialogue

Co-authored book on decolonial methodologies in African social sciences, connecting fieldwork, ethics, local knowledge, co-construction, and public scholarship.

Media Translation

The GeoLens Show

Research-to-public storytelling through interviews, field stories, experts, community voices, and conversations that make complex issues accessible without losing depth.

Scientific articles connected to this work

Peer-reviewed evidence and public scholarship.

The research portfolio is supported by scientific articles and reports on SBCC and nutrition, AI-supported One Health surveillance, mpox epidemic intelligence, COVID-19 community engagement, family planning policy, UNESCO RAM, and decolonial approaches to AI for zoonotic disease detection.

Publication areas

Frontiers in Nutrition
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
Frontiers in Public Health
AI and Ethics
Vaccine
BMJ Global Health
Field communication

Ethical communication begins before the camera turns on.

Research communication must respect communities, protect dignity, clarify purpose, avoid extraction, and support informed participation. Geo Diaffe Global approaches fieldwork with cultural intelligence, listening, language sensitivity, and careful framing.

Field principles

Clarity before visibility
Consent, context, and dignity
Community trust and accountability
Language and cultural intelligence
Ethical storytelling and responsible influence
Research partnerships

Bring research closer to the people it serves.

Geo Diaffe Global collaborates with research teams, universities, public health projects, institutions, and community partners to translate evidence into clear communication, public dialogue, training, and media.