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

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Be sure to tune in Wednesday, October 28th at 9:35 A.M. to "The Environment in Focus" with Tom Pelton.
This interview will be on engineered nanoparticles in Chesapeake Bay water and in the oysters. The program will air on 88.1 FM in Baltimore (WYPR). Interested parties can listen to the interview live or on the website anytime after October 28th.

"The Environment in Focus is a twice-monthly perspective on the issues and people changing Maryland's natural world. There's a story behind every bend of the Chesapeake Bay's 11,684 miles of shoreline, in every abandoned coal mine in the Appalachian Mountains, in every exotic beetle menacing our forests and in every loophole snuck into pollution control laws in Annapolis."

Click here for more information about the program.

IT Sligo Plans Water Quality Workshop with Visiting Fulbright Specialist

"IT Sligo hosted a visit from Fulbright Senior Specialist, Dr Thaddeus K. Graczyk, in late August. Associate Professor Graczyk, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH), Baltimore, US is a leading international expert on Cryptosporidium, which is a continuing problem in Irish drinking water systems. His visit focussed primarily on plans for a joint international workshop entitled ‘Water Quality – Issues We Cannot Afford to Ignore.' This will be jointly hosted by IT Sligo and JHSPH, with sponsorship by the EPA, and will be held in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on October 28. The chief focus of the meeting will be on current Cryptosporidium research in Ireland."

For more information, click here.
Updated 11/13/09: Dr. Graczyk is featured on IT Sligo's website under "Water Quality – Issues We Cannot Afford to Ignore." Click here to access the article.

Dr. Thaddeus Graczyk featured in CBF's Annual Health Report
Dr. Graczyk is featured in Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Health Report: "Bad Water 2009: The Impact on Human Health in the Chesapeake Bay Region." Click here to view the full report.

SAIS Year of the Water Events
Press release from Dean Jessica Einhorn about the Year of the Water and why the theme was selected.
Latest Year of Water Events at SAIS, and the electronic version of SAISphere magazine, dedicated to the subject.

The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources

Upcoming Meetings/Seminars

JHU Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering's Seminar Series.
Don't miss this upcoming series, beginning again in the fall. For more information, click here.

2009 Water Quality Technology Conference and Exposition (WQTC)

Seattle, Washington
November 15-19, 2009

"The AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference® and Exposition (WQTC) keeps thousands of water quality professionals from across the globe up-to-date with the latest research, regulations, and technological advances for keeping drinking water safe."

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.