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| Directors
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Dr Val Curtis, Director,
Reader in Hygiene
Val is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion. She trained
as an engineer but now works as an epidemiologist with
a particular interest in understanding human behaviour.
She is a founder of the Global Public Partnership for
hand washing with soap.
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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. |
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Staff
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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. |
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| Theme
Leaders |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| Research |
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Dr
Adam Biran, Lecturer
Adam
has a degree in Psychology and a PhD in Biological Anthropology.
He is interested in human responses to hygiene, sanitation
and the control of disease. |
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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.
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Staff
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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. |
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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. |
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Mícheál
De Barra MSc, Research Assistant
Mícheál De Barra
is an evolutionary psychologist and has conducted research
on facial attractiveness and worked on behaviour change
programs for children with autism. His current research
project is on hygiene and its relationship with disgust.
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Diana Fleischman,
Research Assistant
Diana joins the Hygiene Centre
from the University of Texas at Austin where she is
a PhD student in Evolutionary Psychology. Diana has
been appointed as a Research Assistant to develop and
manage a programme of experimental and naturalistic
research on human motivation, behaviour change and routine
behaviour performance, particularly with relevance to
everyday hygiene behaviours.
Diana has a BA in Psychology and spent a junior year
at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Belen
Torondel, Research
Assistant
Belen
joins the Environmental Health Group following the completion
of her Master’s Degree in Public Health in Developing
Countries at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine. Belen has been appointed as a Research Assistant
to work on understanding decomposition processes and the
influence of on-site sanitation design factors on performance
to support bio-additive and/or pit latrine product development.
The project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
will assess the potential of modern biotechnology to deliver
effective bio-additives which can accelerate decomposition
processes and extend the lifetime of pit latrines. It
will also build a sound scientific understanding of the
key factors. Belen has a Doctorate in Pharmacy from the
University of Valencia in Spain. |
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| Associates |
Colin
McCubbin
Colin hsa prepared his PhD thesis
on "Sustainable Sanitation in Rural Tanzania; its
measurements and determinents at village level".
He has an MSc in Water Resources Engineering and has
spent 15 years working with non-governmental agencies
across Africa. His particular interest is in rural sanitation,
and his current research seeks to identify determining
factors for sustainability in rural sanitation. |
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Myriam
Sidibe
Myriam Sidibe is a water and waste
engineer who has over eight years experience working
in Asia and Africa mainly in designing, implementing
and evaluating school hygiene programmes. Her interests
are hygiene, child behaviour change and her current
research seeks to identify motivating factors for childrens
hygiene behaviour. |
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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. |
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| Students |
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)
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Rachel Peletz, Student
Rachel is an Environmental Engineer
currently researching drinking water quality in HIV-endemic
settings in Zambia. |
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Gaby
Judah, Student
Gaby completed her undergraduate
degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising
in Experimental Psychology. Her focus is on developmental
psychology, learning and motivation. |
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| Support |
Eileen
Chappell, Business Manager, Administration and Finance
Theme Leader
Eileen manages the Administration
and Finance Team for the Hygiene Centre and the Environmental
Health Group. She ensures the provision of support for
the research and consultancies that the Group undertakes.
She also helps with the external events that the Group
hosts. |
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