Maputo Sanitation Trial Seminar

Joe Brown, PhD PE, will present a seminar entitled “The Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) Trial: Measuring Health Impacts of Urban Sanitation Improvements.”

Joe Brown, PhD PE, is an environmental engineer who studies water and santitation in the context of global public health. His research uses tools of environemntal health microbiology, risk assessment, and epidemiology to measure and develop strategies for controlling exposures to enteric pathogens. Following a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Alabama and an MPhil from Cambridge University, Joe received a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2007. He is a currently Carlton S. Wilder Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he was on faculty of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in the Department of Disease Control, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. He has courtesy appointments in Biological Sciences and in Environmental Health, Emory University, where he is affiliated with the Center for Global Safe WASH in the Rollings School of Public Health.