Training
The Center for Global Safe Water at Rollins School of Public Health teaches students how to conduct water and sanitation research, implement interventions, deliver health education, and evaluate and monitor programs close to home and overseas. Courses taught by Center for Global Safe Water faculty provide students with the essential skills needed to design, implement, and evaluate water and sanitation technologies, interventions, and policies. Outside the classroom, Global Field Experience (GFE) projects give students the opportunity to work with partner organizations on-site in countries around the world to implement, maintain, and evaluate water-related programs at the local level.
Courses Taught by Center for Global Safe Water Faculty
BACK TO TOPGH 529: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Provides students with techniques needed to develop, evaluate, and sustain successful drinking water and sanitation interventions for developing countries. Focuses on practical field and laboratory tools needed for different stages of projects, including: assessment of perceived and actual need, alternative strategies for different environmental settings, assessing cost and financial sustainability of projects, laboratory and field techniques for assessing exposure to microbial and chemical agents, and measuring health outcomes (for baseline or effectiveness assessment). Includes lectures, extensive case studies, and field and laboratory exercises.
Taught by: Dr. Christine Moe
GH 560: Monitoring and Evaluating Global Health Programs
Provides students with the technical skills to carry out process and impact evaluations of international public health programs or projects. Helps students understand the role of monitoring and evaluation in policy analysis, planning, program design and management.
Taught by: Dr. Clair Null
GH 516: Global Perspectives In Parasitic Disease
Focuses on prevalent parasitic infections seen in this country as well as those seen primarily abroad Topics include parasite life cycles, immunology, diagnostic methods, clinical manifestations, treatment and follow up, complications, epidemiology, prevention and control, methods of transmission, and future research priorities
Taught by: Dr. Juan Leon
GH 520: Public Health Biology
This course will benefit students with little to no formal biology training, or those who wish a biology refresher, and will provide an introduction to the concepts in public health biology which is the study of biological principles to problems of public health importance. We will explore basic molecular, genetic, and cellular concepts, organ systems, population biology, and other important topics including laboratory assays, nutrition, the biology of cancer and mental disease, and ethics. Basic lectures will be complemented by speakers tying these basic concepts to the practice and research of public health. Students will also develop practical skills including: reading and discussing a scientific article, scientific writing, exposure to a biological laboratory, and basic proposal writing. This course fulfills all the requirements of the Public Health Biology Illustrative Sub-competencies recommended by the Association of Schools of Public Health.
Taught by: Dr. Juan Leon
GH 522: Qualitative Methods for Research in Global Health
This course is designed to provide students with knowledge of the theoretical principles
of qualitative research and to develop skills in the practical application of key qualitative methods used in public health . The course will provide an overview of the theory and concepts underpinning qualitative research, qualitative research design issues, ethical considerations and challenges, data collection methods and how to assess research quality. The course will also provide students with an awareness of analytic field tasks, qualitative data management and preparation. The course will focus on the challenges of applying qualitative methods in inter- national research settings and provide guidance on fieldwork planning and implementation to assist students in preparing for their Global Field Experience (GFE) activities. The emphasis of this course is on developing practical skills in qualitative research through classroom practical sessions and assignments.
Taught by: Dr. Monique Hennink
GH 525: Qualitative Data Analysis
This course is designed to provide students with the theoretical background and practical skills in analyzing qualitative data. The course is intended for second year MPH students who have completed GH 522 (Qualitative Research Methods) and who have collected qualitative data during fieldwork for their master’s theses. During the course students will analyze their own data through weekly classroom exercises, structured assignments, and lab-based exercises using qualitative data analysis software. The course will provide an overview of the theoretical principles of qualitative data analysis, data preparation, data analysis, conceptualizing and interpreting data, writing and presenting data and an assessment of data quality.
Taught by: Dr. Monique Hennink
GH 582: Environment, Climate, and Infectious Disease
Explores the role of the environment in the transmission of infectious diseases and the emergence of new pathogens. Topics include the basic principles of infectious disease trans- mission, the influence of climate variation and change on infectious diseases, the impact of deforestation and urbanization on emergence or re-emergence of pathogens, infectious disease outbreaks associated with natural disasters, ecological sanitation, and infectious disease trans- mission in indoor environments.
Taught by: Dr. Justin Remais
International Fieldwork (GFE)
Global Field Experiences (GFE) allow students to apply the skills and knowledge they have gained through their first year at the Rollins School of Public Health in real world settings around the globe. Students typically undertake international work during the summer between years one and two of their degree program. Each year, over 80 students work in foreign countries and many more undertake internationally-focused work in the United States. They return to their coursework with greater understanding of how to engage in public health practice, more confidence in their abilities, and more focused career goals.
Working closely with faculty and mentors, students identify projects related to their specific areas of public health and geographic interest. Students then work with the agency or organization to identify a specific role that the student can play in support of the project's goals and objectives. Many students also base their thesis or capstone project on the data they collect. This approach allows students to gain invaluable practical experience while making important and tangible contributions to their host project's success. For more information please visit http://www.sph.emory.edu/GFE/
The Center for Global Safe Water assists students wishing to complete their Global Field Experience work in water- and sanitation-related topics. Explore past GFE projects to learn more. http://www.sph.emory.edu/GFE/
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene GFE projects
2007
Jennifer Warpinski Assessing the Successess and Failures of Ecological Sanitation in Bolivia: Lessons Learned
Lisa Dickman Community Perception and Demand for School-Based Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Western Kenya and Making a More Girl Friendly Latrine
Michael Ritter Mountains, Motos, and Mules: Removing Barriers to Household Water Treatment in Rural Haiti
Natasha Prudent Global Environmental Health Factors in well-functionality as a measure of sustainability in Rural Malawi
Rebecca Wheeler Writing Education Materials for Resource-Poor Settings: The Safe Water System in Kenya
Victoria Cuellar Exploring the Bowels of Kenya: Helminth Infection in School Children
Wendy Worthington School-Based Point-of-Use Treatment for Turbid Drinking Water: Is There a Clear Solution?
2008
Alexandra Huttinger Participatory Assessments of Sanitation in Rural Bolivia: An Evaluation of 12 Communities in Chuquisaca Department
Ansley Lemons Implementation of Ceramic Water Filtration in Arusha, Tanzania
Erick Christensen Estimating the economic impact of diarrhea in children under five in Xian, China
Helen Paradise (Tang) Pediatric Diarrhea Cost Assessment and Renal Transplant Epidemiology
Holly Dentz Pro-Poor Sanitation Demand Creation in Bolivia: Perceptions of Microcredit and Household Sanitation
Lindsay Handelsman Improving the Usefulness of Public Health Dissemination Materials regarding Food Safety and Hygiene Practices among Street Food Vendors in Kumasi, Ghana
Molly Klarman Can They Be Improved? An Investigation into New Ceramic Water Filter Designs in the Dominican Republic
Paul Schramm Waste Management in Bedouin Villages in the Negev Desert of Israel
Susan Aman Safe Water in Haiti
2009
Allison Prather Parental Perspectives on Information Diffusion from a School-based Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Program (SWASH+)
Caitlin Worrell Assessing the effectiveness of a qPCR technique to detect Schistosoma japonicum in environmental water samples.
Gregory Spain Fighting Global Warming and Parasite Dispersion with Rural Sanitation Systems
Kelly Alexander The sustainability of PlayPumps and school WASH programs in Gaza Province, Mozambique
Laura Calder Manual Development for Community Health Workers to Promote Hygiene and Sanitation in Musanze, Rwanda
Lindsey Horton Cadmium Exposure and the Potential Health Effects of Fish and Shellfish Consumption in Bulacan Province, Philippines
McDowell Julia Understanding Health Vulnerability to Climate Change in Bolivia
Molly Kurnit Diffusion of school-learned WASH behaviors from pupils to their households: The student's perspective
Sally Zweimueller Evaluating the Sustainability of School-based Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programs in Woliso, Ethiopia
Sarah Porter Evaluation of a school WASH project in Mtwara, Tanzania
Yiliu Chen Using a Tracer Method to Evaluate Time of Parasite Travel in Schistosomiasis Transmission in Rural Sichuan, China
2010
Bilal Alkatout
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