Below is a Youtube video of a public lecture Dr Paul Hutchings gave as part University of Leeds Alumni team’s “Meet the Researchers” series in March 2023. In it he discuss the challenge of achieving safely managed sanitation in urban areas and the types of research the WASH research group...
This blog is by Leonie Hyde-Smith a PhD student on the WaterWiser CDT programme Effective sanitation systems are crucial for public and environmental health, particularly in densely populated urban areas. It is widely accepted that the impacts of climate change will stress the effective functioning of urban sanitation systems. But...
Hospital-acquired infections are serious business. Hundreds of millions of patients a year pick up infections significantly contributing to the global burden of disease. The problem is most acute in low- and middle-income countries where one in ten patients becomes infected contributing to untold suffering and placing significant strain on overstretched...
(This article explains why we have had to withdraw from publishing the IJERPH Special Issue on “Learning from Failure in Environmental and Public Health Research”) This article is written by the WASH Failures Team. Follow them on Twitter: @FSM_Fail For the last couple of years, we have been...
Dr Sally Cawood, Research Fellow in Urban Sanitation From the 18th to 22nd February 2019, 800 people – including politicians, academics, practitioners, consultants, innovators, donor representatives and policy makers – descended upon the Cape Town International Conference Centre in South Africa for the joint fifth Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) and...
Dr Dani Barrington, Lecturer in Water, Sanitation and Health, School of Civil Engineering. Follow Dani on Twitter: @Dani_Barrington Dr Lena Jaspersen, University Academic Fellow, Management Division, Leeds University Business School. Isobel Sale, Undergraduate Student, Bachelor of Arts (French and Linguistics) Urinary incontinence (UI) disproportionally affects women. It is estimated that about one...
Dr Chindo Nwankwo, Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow, visiting from University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria Approximately 844 million people do not have clean water and 2.3 billion do not have access to a decent toilet. Many of these people live in Africa and Asia. Every two minutes a child under...
Dr Dani Barrington, Lecturer in Water, Sanitation and Health, University of Leeds. Follow Dani on Twitter: @Dani_Barrington Dr Michelle Redman-MacLaren, Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University. Follow Michelle on Twitter: @shelmaclaren Humpress Harrington, Lecturer, Pacific Adventist University / PhD candidate, James Cook University. Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) experience...
Dr Celia Way, Research Fellow. Follow Celia on Twitter: @DrCMWay *This post is about research conducted as part of the HyCRISTAL project.* The Lake Victoria basin is feeling the effects of changing global climate patterns, and especially so in Kampala (Uganda) and Kisumu (Kenya). These cities, as with urban areas across...