Sandy Cairncross, Professor of Environmental Health

Sandy is a public health engineer and an epidemiologist. He is interested in environmental interventions for disease control. He has spent much of his career in developing countries, involved with water, sanitation and public health programmes; he has also spent time doing research and teaching.

Sally Bloomfield, Honorary Professor

Sally qualified initially as a pharmacist, but then went on to develop a career in microbiology, with a specific interest in the prevention of infectious diseases and in microbial quality assurance. For 25 years, Dr Bloomfield was an academic in the Department of Pharmacy, Kings College London.

Dr Robert Aunger, Senior Lecturer, Behaviour Change Theme Leader

Robert Aunger has a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published a number of books, most recently on the spread of ideas through society. He is currently working on the evolution of behaviour and how evolutionary psychology can be used in health promotion.

Dr Tom Clasen, Senior Lecturer, Household Water Management Theme Leader

Tom has worked in international law and business for over 20 years. For his PhD, he conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials of in-house water treatment. He continues to study the effectiveness of point-of-use water filtration in a series of trials in South America and Asia.

Steven Sugden, Research Fellow, Sanitation Theme Leader

Steven is the Hygiene Centre's technical advisor on sanitation. He has wide-ranging experience of sanitation programme management in developing countries. He is currently working on sanitation marketing, eco-sanitation and solid waste management in urban areas.

Dr Mimi Jenkins, Assistant Research Engineer, University of California at Davis

Mimi is an expert in consumer demand for sanitation. Her PhD dissertation examined household decisions to install pit latrines in Benin, West Africa. She continues to work on sanitation marketing in West Africa and Tanzania.

Dr Jeroen Ensink, Lecturer

Jeroen is a water resource engineer with interested in the link between (agricultural) water management and health. He has worked in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam on the domestic uses of irrigation water and its impact on childhood diarrhoea.

Beth Scott, Research Fellow

Beth has studied Archaeology and Anthropology and has an MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases. She is studying the motivating factors for hand washing and sanitation use, and is working with the Public-Private Partnership for Hand washing in Ghana.

Dr Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Research Fellow

Wolf is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist by training. His particular interest is in epidemiological methods and study design. He supports research in the Hygiene Centre on water, sanitation and hygiene.

Sophie Boisson MSc, Research Fellow

Originally trained as a biologist, I completed my MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM in 2004. Prior to joining the Environmental Health Group, I have been involved in household water treatment projects in Peru, the Dominican Republic and India and worked in infectious diseases surveillance at the HPA Centre for Infections, London.

Dr Kristof Bostoen

Kristof is an engineer who has worked with non-governmental agencies across the world. He is designing a survey methodology that measures progress in improving hygiene practices and access to water and sanitation.

Daniele Lantagne, Student

Daniele is an Environmental Engineer (MIT BS ’96, MIT M.Eng. ’01, PE ’03) currently pursuing her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Despoina Xenikaki, Overseas Projects Coordinator

Despoina studied Social Policy and Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece and Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her main subjects are sociolinguistics and gender. She has previously worked for Imperial College, London as a Research Administrator.