Maggie Montgomery joined the Water, Sanitation and Health Unit (WSH) at the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2010 to coordinate the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage.
Published on: 16/02/2011
Maggie Montgomery joined the Water, Sanitation and Health Unit (WSH) at the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2010 to coordinate the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. Together with her counterparts at UNICEF, in the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina and with key Network participants she will implement the next phase (2011-2015) of Network activities.Maggie is a licensed engineer with several years of water, sanitation and health work and research experience in the USA, Tanzania and Rwanda.
For her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Yale University she worked in rural Tanzania investigating the effectiveness of sanitation in reducing risk of blinding trachoma. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, Maggie was involved in research on water, sanitation, hygiene, and health in Sub-Saharan Africa, and had major responsibility for the project “Multi-scale modeling of health behavior choices: Water, sanitation, and child survival in Africa”.
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Related web site: WHO – International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage
Source: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health, no. 128, 14 Jan 2011
