NSF IGERT Symposium: Water, climate, and health

Description

The Department of Environmental Health and Engineering is pleased to announce the NSF IGERT symposium on water, climate, and health. Climate change and shifts in the hydrologic cycle are affecting the world's water resources, the availability of food, and human health. Realizing that an integrated approach was the only way to solve such problems, the National Science Foundation created a multidisciplinary program to prepare scientists.

At this symposium, scientists and graduate student researchers will discuss their work towards understanding the impact of climate change throughout the world.

Guest speakers include:

• Alexander Zehnder, on "EcoCampus, a meeting place for sustainability education, research, development, and implementation"
• Joan Rose, on "It's raining, it's pouring, the sewage is overflowing"
• Kristie Ebi, on "Health Risks of Climate Change"
• Jack Colford, on "The impact of single and combined water quality, sanitation, hand-washing, and nutritional interventions on diarrhea and child growth in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: A coordinated pair of cluster-randomized trials"