Center for Water and Health

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Partnerships

Safe Water Network: The Safe Water Network (SWN) is a nonprofit established in 2006 by prominent business and philanthropic leaders to help the more than one billion people at risk from preventable water-related illnesses. The Center is collaborating with SWN to develop, implement and fund innovative and sustainable solutions to help affected populations gain access to clean drinking water. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and PepsiCo are also partners in SWN.

Membrane Filtration Research Lab: As part of the Center’s work in assessing new water treatment techniques, Joseph Jacangelo, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences adjunct associate professor, heads a lab focused on the field’s fastest-growing area: membrane filtration. Lab researchers work to discover the mechanisms by which membranes remove contaminants and evaluate different types of membranes for potential use in water and wastewater treatment systems. Jacangelo is the national technical director with MWH, an environmental engineering company.

Procter & Gamble: Center faculty evaluated the effectiveness of PUR, a point-of-use water treatment technology in sachet-like packaging that can rapidly sterilize water through disinfection and coagulation. PUR is sold at cost to relief agencies throughout the world.

Research Projects

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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.