Funded Programs

The Center for Global Safe Water at Emory: Expanded Partnership and Research Activities

Through its Center for Global Safe Water, Emory's Rollins School of Public Health works to improve water and sanitation around the world. The Center partners with water and sanitation experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CARE, The Carter Center, and The Georgia Institute of Technology. The Center is a unique consortium that focuses on improving drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene around the world through applied research, evaluation, and training. With funding from the Emory Global Health Institute, the Center will strengthen and expand its internatinoal and Atlanta-based partnerships and conduct targeted research activities at its international field sites in Kenya and Bolivia. These research activities will 1) characterize disparities in water and sanitation access and the underlying reasons for them; 2) examine disease transmission in developing country environments to inform the development of effective water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions; and 3) examine how market-based approaches can be used effectively to provide large-scale, sustainable water and sanitation services. The Center plans to use the findings of this research to contribute to the scientific evidence base, influence water and sanitation implementation policies, and develop proposals for large-scale research and implementation projects to test innovative approaches to water, sanitation, and hygiene.

For more information, contact:
Christine L. Moe, PhD
Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation
Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
clmoe@sph.emory.edu