After becoming an engineer in medical electronics I
joined the medical non-governmental organisation Médecins
Sans Frontières in 1989. Working in countries
such as Rwanda, Turkey, Iraq, Burundi, Congo, Angola
the Philippines, Liberia, ex-Yugoslavia etc.
During my work abroad I developed
an interest in environmental health engineering. After
two years of being responsible for MSF's world wide
field telecommunications network I studied at Loughborough
University and obtained an MSc in 'Water and Waste Engineering'
at WEDC in 1997, researching the public threat of 'Land
filling of Healthcare Waste'.
After my studies I worked for MSF-B,
drilling boreholes and commissioning water treatment
plants in Southern Sudan and provided water and waste
facilities for refugees in Albania and Kosovo. For ICRC
I was involved in rehabilitating boreholes in Somalia
and the development of cholera activities in major towns
like the capital Mogadishu.
In 2001,before joining the Environmental
Health Group Prof. Cairncross and I did consultancies
for MSF-E, MSF-B, SC-UK, Oxfam-UK, UNDP, Habitat, UNEP,
IFRC and ICRC.
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