Follow the JHU Center for Water and Health on Twitter! The Johns Hopkins University Global Water Program Seed Grant Program Announcement
The Global Water Program (GWP) was launched in 2009 following the award of a discovery grant funded by the Office of the Provost's Framework for the Future program. The mission of the GWP is to pursue training and research to meet the global water challenge of providing the quality and quantity of water needed to sustain human health and the environment. Meeting this challenge will require focused collaboration among researchers and students in engineering, public health, medical sciences, natural and biologic sciences, social sciences, and policy analysis. The GWP will foster such collaboration by bringing together researchers and students throughout all Johns Hopkins affiliated institutions around the six themes of i) Water and Health, ii) Water and Food, iii) Water and Ecology, iv) Water and Energy, v) Water Policy, and vi) Water Infrastructure. An initial step toward this end is to provide $25,000 of seed funding supported through the Office of Provost, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Whiting School of Engineering. The GWP is now accepting proposals for research projects on the thematic area of "Water and Health." The deadline for submitting a complete proposal application is February 1st, 2010. Additional information about the initial seed program is provided in the attached PDF. To learn more about the GWP and/or the seed-grant program, contact our Director Kellogg Schwab kschwab@jhsph.edu, Associate Director Bill Ball bball@jhu.edu, or Program Manager, Luke MacDonald, lmacdona@jhsph.edu Click hereto download a PDF file with more information. Dr. Graczyk to Participate in the 10th National Council on Science, Policy, and the Environment
Thaddeus Graczyk will participate 10th National Council on Science, Policy, and the Environment Jan 21, 2010, Washington, DC with his talk on “Sustainable Water Reuse for a Green Economy”. More information can be found by clicking here. Symposium: "Water and Health: Global Issues and Our Shared Responsibilities."
Drs. Kellogg Schwab and Peter Agre of JHSPH recently participated in The New York Academy of Sciences' Academy Webinar, "Water and Health: Global Issues and Our Shared Responsibilities."
From the Website:
"During his presidential campaign, then Senator Barack Obama was frequently heard to exclaim that "water is one of the grand challenges facing the 21st century." Since his election President Obama has highlighted several aspects of this pressing issue, including universal access to clean water, the increasingly complex politics of water, and the crumbling water infrastructure which poses threats in even the most economically developed nations. None of this is news to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and its legion of researchers who have been actively engaged in water science since the early 20th century when Abel Wolman pioneered the chlorinating process for public water supplies. To echo President Obama's call to action, and to publicize the challenges posed, the Bloomberg School held a symposium on water on Friday, November 13, at the New York Academy of Sciences."
Please click here to visit the website and watch the symposium. 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.
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.
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.
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