Center for Water and Health

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Natural or manmade disasters pose tremendous risks to water quality and access. The Center has the resources to provide expertise in water testing, treatment and distribution— when disaster strikes, and in preparation for future crises.

Hurricane Katrina: Four days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, Center director Kellogg Schwab traveled to Alabama as part of a four-person team from the Bloomberg School to assist with the assessment of shelters in the region. The group made the trip at the request of the American Red Cross. Schwab made a second trip to the region two weeks after the disaster to test tap water at shelters and to collect air, water and soil samples to determine the post-flooding level of contamination in New Orleans.

Disaster Preparedness: Center faculty are collaborating with the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness to provide terrorism readiness and response training to frontline public health workers in Maryland, Delaware and Washington, D.C.

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.