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Cairncross - PhD FRSA MICE MCIWEM |
Professor
of Environmental Health
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Room
402 DCVB Unit
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel
Street, London WC1E 7HT |
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| Background |
A public health engineer by
profession, and an epidemiologist by vocation, Dr Sandy
Cairncross is interested in environmental interventions
for disease control and their technical and policy aspects.
Most of his career has been spent in research and teaching,
and about a third in developing countries implementing
water, sanitation and public health programmes. With
a PhD in soil mechanics from the University of Cambridge,
he built water supplies in Lesotho, Southern Africa
before spending a year at LSHTM in 1977. During this
time he worked on several books, including a textbook
on environmental health engineering in the tropics which
is now in its second edition. He then spent seven years
as a water and sanitation engineer for the Government
of newly-independent Mozambique, before returning to
LSHTM in 1984. Here, he leads a research group working
on environmental health in developing countries. From
1992 to 1995 he was on leave of absence with Unicef
in Ouagadougou, West Africa, where with WHO he set up
an interagency technical team to support national Guinea
worm eradication programmes in the region. His group's
work at LSHTM has involved studies of the health impact
of environmental interventions such as water supply,
sanitation and mosquito control, and of operational
and policy aspects of water supply, low-cost sanitation,
surface water drainage, and solid waste management.
He is an editor of Tropical Medicine & International
Health, and a trustee of Water Aid.
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| Teaching/Research |
Sandy runs a study unit on Tropical Environmental Health,
as well as contributing to a number of other courses
and study units on topics such as water & sanitation,
PHC and Guinea worm eradication.
He also leads the Environmental Health Group, whose
current research relates to hygiene promotion, monitoring
the coverage of water supplies, sanitation and hygiene,
wastewater irrigation and other related topics.P
Disciplines: Policy analysis, Epidemiology,
Operational research.
Research areas: Hygiene, Sanitation, Diarrhoeal diseases,
Environment, Water.
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| Publications |
CAIRNCROSS S, Shordt K, Zacharia S, Govindan BK. 2005.
What causes sustainable changes in hygiene behaviour?
A cross-sectional study from Kerala, India. Social Science
& Medicine 61(10):2212-20.
CAIRNCROSS S, Valdmanis V. 2004. Water supply, sanitation
and hygiene promotion. Disease Control Priorities Project,
Working Paper no. 28. Washington DC: National Institutes
of Health. www.fic.nih.gov/dcpp/wps.html
CAIRNCROSS S. 2004. The Case for Marketing Sanitation.
Water & Sanitation Programme Field Note. Nairobi:
The World Bank.
CAIRNCROSS S, 2003. Editorial: Handwashing with soap
– a new way to prevent ARIs? Tropical Medicine
& International Health 8 (8): 677-679
CAIRNCROSS S, O’Neill D, McCoy A, Sethi D 2003.
Environmental Health and the Burden of Disease; a Guidance
Note. London: Department for International Development.
(Also published in French)
Curtis V, CAIRNCROSS S. 2003. Effect of washing hands
with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic
review. Lancet Infectious Diseases 3: 275-281.
CAIRNCROSS S. 2003. Sanitation in the developing world;
current status and future solutions. International Journal
of Environmental Health Research 13: S123-S131.
CAIRNCROSS S. 2003. Editorial: water supply and sanitation;
some misconceptions. Tropical Medicine & International
Health 8 (3): 193-195.
CAIRNCROSS S, Muller R, Zagaria N. (2002). 'Dracunculiasis
(Guinea Worm Disease) and the Eradication Initiative',
Clinical microbiology reviews, 15 (2): 223-246.
Moraes LRS, Cancio JA, CAIRNCROSS AM and HUTTLY SRA.
(2003). 'Impact of drainage and sewerage on diarrhoea
in poor urban areas in Salvador, Brazil.' Transactions
of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
97: 153-158
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