Leading and Learning in wash
Leading and Learning in wash
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The 2018-2019 CGSW Seminar Series kicked-off with a lecture co-sponsored by the Environmental Health Department. Dr. Diego Ramirez-Lovering of Monash University in Australia discussed his research which examines the contributory role that architecture and urbanism can play in addressing the significant challenges facing contemporary urban environments -climate change, resource limitations and rapid population growth with a key focus on the Global South. ” Alternative Interventions: Revitalizing Informal Settlements and Their Environments (RISE)” Revitalizing Informal Settlements and Their Environments (RISE) is an action-research program working at the intersections of health, environment, and water and sanitation. RISE is trialing a new water sensitive approach to water and sanitation management in 24 informal settlements across Makassar, Indonesia and Suva, Fiji.
Dr. Christopher Sistrunk from City of Hope, Beckman Research Institute entitled Safe to Drink: How Drinking Water in the US can be Hazardous to Your Health. This presentation gave a glimpse into how drinking water deemed safe to drink by the US EPA, may actually lead to chronic illnesses through changes in epigenetics. This lecture will be available on our seminar series page at the end of the year.
On October 5, 2018, Dr. Christoper Manganiello and Jessica Sterling of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper return to discuss the Supreme Court verdict on the transboundary “water wars” between Georgia, Alabama and Florida. The lecture will be held in the Claudia Nance Rollins Building, Room 1000 from 12-1 pm.
For World Toilet Day 2018, Emory’s own SANIPATH team of researchers will present their work on fecal exposure pathways and Ga Tech Alumnus and Wish for WASH founder Jasmine Burton will present on innovative solutions for increasing sanitation access. Wish for WASH is a social impact organization that seeks to bring innovation to sanitation through culturally-specific research, design, and education because #EVERYBODYPOOPS. More info and details soon.