Jeroen Ensink - PhD MSc

Background

Jeroen is a water resource engineer specialising in environmental health, with a particular focus on the association between water management and health. He completed his MSc at Wageningen University (the Netherlands) in 1999, following which he worked until 2006 for the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Pakistan, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and India.

During this period he was involved in studies on malaria and irrigation system management, drinking water quality and childhood diarrhoea, and led trials to improve drinking water quality at village and household level (chlorination, improved sanitation and household storage). In May 2006 Jeroen completed his PhD at LSHTM on the use of untreated wastewater in agriculture in India and Pakistan. He now works as a research fellow at LSHTM.

Teaching/Research

Design of Disease Control Programmes in Developing Countries and Tropical Environmental Health Study Unit.

Water management, wastewater treatment, water supply, sanitation, diarrhoeal disease, helminth infections.

SAFIR, EU FP-

Safe and High Quality Food Production using Low Improved Irrigation Systems and Management (SAFIR) is a multi-country study of new technologies for using contaminated water for crop irrigation. The School is contributing to the health component in a programme of collaboration with several agricultural research institutes. Our input will be to assess the contamination-related risks potentially related to exposure to this water and consumption of contaminated crops. Field work will be carried out in several European countries and in China. The first stage will be a risk assessment based on modelling the exposure based on the pilot and field trial experiments and estimating potential exposure and health risk scenarios

ROSA, EU FP-6

Resource-Oriented Sanitation concepts for peri-urban areas in Africa (ROSA) has as objectives:

1. To promote resource-oriented sanitation concepts as a route to sustainable sanitation and to fulfil the UN MDGs
2. To implement resource-oriented sanitation concepts in four model cities in East Africa (Arbaminch, Ethiopia; Nakuru, Kenya; Arusha, Tanzania; and Kitgum, Uganda)
3. to research the gaps for the implementation of resource-oriented sanitation concepts in peri-urban areas, and
4. To develop a generally applicable adaptable framework for the development of strategic sanitation & waste plans (SSWPs)

Publications

Phd Thesis

Wastewater use in agriculture

Ensink, J. H. J. & van der Hoek, W. (2007). Editorial: New international guidelines for wastewater use in agriculture. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 12 (5), 575- 577.

Ensink, J.H.J., van der Hoek, W & Amerasinghe, F. P. (2006). Giardia duodenalis infection and wastewater irrigation in Pakistan. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 100, 538-542

Ensink, J.H.J., van der Hoek, W., Mukhtar, M., Tahir, Z., & Amerasinghe, F.P. (2005). High risk of hookworm infection among wastewater farmers in Pakistan. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99, 809-818.

Ensink, J.H.J., Mahmood, T., van der Hoek, W., Raschid-Sally, L. & Amerasinghe, F.P. (2004). A nation-wide assessment of wastewater use in Pakistan: an obscure activity or a vitally important one? Water policy, 6, 197- 206.

Drinking water supply and sanitation

Jensen, P.K., Ensink, J.H.J., Jayasinghe, G., van der Hoek, W., Cairncross, S. & Dalsgaard, A. (2003). Effect of chlorination of drinking water on water quality and childhood diarrhoea in a village in Pakistan. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 21(1), 26-31.

Jensen, P.K., Ensink, J.H.J., Jayasinghe, G., van der Hoek, W., Cairncross, S. & Dalsgaard, A. (2002). Domestic transmission routes of pathogens: the problem of in-house contamination of drinking water during storage in developing countries. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 7 (7), 604 -609.

van der Hoek, W., Konradsen, F., Ensink, J.H.J., Mudasser, M. & Jensen, P.K. (2001). Irrigation water as a source of drinking: is safe use possible? Tropical Medicine and International Health, 6 (1), 46-54.

Water management and vector breeding

Mukhtar, M., Ensink, J.H.J., van der Hoek, W., Amerasinghe, F.P. & Konradsen, F. (2006). The importance of waste stabilization ponds and wastewater irrigation in the generation of vector mosquitoes in Pakistan. Journal of Medical Entomology, 43 (5), 996-1003.

Herrel, N., Amerasinghe, F.P., Ensink, J., Mukhtar, M., van der Hoek, W., & Konradsen, F. (2004). Adult anopheline ecology and malaria transmission in an irrigated area of south Punjab, Pakistan. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 18, 141-152.

Mukhtar, M., Herrel, N., Amerasinghe, F.P., Ensink, J., van der Hoek, W., & Konradsen, F. (2002). Role of wastewater irrigation in mosquito breeding in South Punjab, Pakistan. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 34 (1), 72-80.

Herrel, N., Amerasinghe, F.P., Ensink, J., Mukhtar, M., van der Hoek, W., & Konradsen, F. (2001). Breeding of Anopheles mosquitoes in irrigated areas of South Punjab, Pakistan. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 15 (3), 236-248.