Center for Water and Health

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health is a multidisciplinary research and education center, committed to leadership in the field of water and public health. Based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, the Center collaborates with researchers, engineers and scientists across University divisions to advance knowledge on drinking water, water treatment, wastewater and natural water systems for the 21st century, both in the United States and internationally.

Center priorities include:

Developing and evaluating strategies to provide safe drinking water to the 1.2 billion people around the world who lack this basic necessity
Assessing new water and wastewater treatment systems
Developing diagnostic tools to identify and quantify chemicals and emerging microorganisms in water supplies
Preparing students to become leaders in water-related public health issues
Establishing partnerships with environmental and health agencies, as well as business concerns, to provide an applied endpoint to Center research activities

Water and Health News

Current Events

Read the Bloomberg article entitled, "Peak Water: The Rise and Fall of Cheap, Clean H20." Click on this link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-06/peak-water-the-rise-and-fall-of-cheap-clean-h2o.html

Read the October 28 article from the FastCo Design website entitled, "Why Science Depends on Good Branding." Click on this link: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665308/why-science-depends-on-good-branding

Read the JHU Gazette article, "Tackling the global water challenge." Drs. Kellogg Schwab and Luke MacDonald discuss solutions to problems facing the U.S. and abroad. Click on this link: http://gazette.jhu.edu/2011/09/12/tackling-the-global-water-challenge/?print.

Melissa Opryszko, a Ph.D. candidate at the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health, explains her research with potable water kiosks in Ghana. Click here to view video.

The JHU Whiting School of Engineering Dean Nick Jones moderates the Chicago event, "Rising to the Challenge," a water panel discussion that addresses global water issues. View the panel of water experts: Edward Bouwer, Kellogg Schwab, Ben Zaitchik, Winston Yu, and Melissa Opryszko. Click here to view video.

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Upcoming Meetings/Seminars

JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering's Seminar Series.
Don't miss this seminar series! For more information, click here.

Events Archive

Research Projects

Click on the projects map to learn about the Center’s current work—from developing simple techniques to identify minute pathogenic viruses that escape conventional means of detection to assessing the human health risk posed by a parasite that infects Chesapeake Bay oysters to testing in-home water treatments for isolated populations who lack safe drinking water.

Collaborators

The Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health welcomes inquiries from foundations, public agencies and private sector concerns with an interest in forging partnerships to translate Center research on water and public health into innovative, evidence-based applications.