- Environmental Health
Group and the Hygiene Centre Review 2009.
Staff
from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s
Environmental Health Group and Hygiene Centre participated
in their annual meeting from 11th to 13th January 2010.
Sandy
Cairncross and Val
Curtis the Group’s respective leaders, guided
staff and visitors through a review of current work
in Point of Use Water, Schools, Sanitation and Handwashing.
Other sessions covered Behaviour Change Models, Understanding
Behaviour, Motivation and Disgust.
We also heard from Dhanraj Chokappa
Research Technical Resource Development Director at
Hindustan
Unilever Ltd and Amit Chakrabortty, also of Unilever
Research India.
Day 3l concentrated on a brainstorming session preparing
proposal ideas for prospective fund application during
2010. These centred around sanitation and hygiene themes
such as sanitation financing, water initiatives in West
Africa and improving hand cleansing.
- Hygiene Centre Newsletter
2009
Click here
to download a review of work undertaken by the Hygiene
Centre during 2009.
- New Staff
Valerie Heywood joined the Environmental
Health Group on the 4th January. Valerie is a new Finance
Officer and will be working within the Administration
and Finance Team.
- Old Staff
Wolf-Peter Schmidt has left the
Hygiene Centre to take up a studentship in Japan for
one year. Wolf is now based in the Institution of Tropical
Medicine at Nagasaki University.
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