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Greetings: <br>
The Cambridge University M.Phil Programme in Environmental Engineering
and Sustainable Development is sponsoring the 4th Annual Distinguished
Lecture Series on Sustainable Development. Under the auspices of CMI, the
lectures are being broadcast simultaneously to MIT on selected Wednesday
afternoons from 1:00 -2:30. Visit
<a href="http://ceeserver3.mit.edu/CMI%20Distinguished%20Lectures.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://ceeserver3.mit.edu/CMI%20Distinguished%20Lectures.pdf</a> for the
announcement.<br><br>
The second lecture is Wednesday, February 15, from 1 - 2:30 in room
8-404. Details include:<br><br>
Title: <font size=4><b>From hardware to hygiene: an engineer’s</b>
<b>odyssey into water and sanitation<br><br>
</font>Speaker:</b> <b>Sandy Cairncross, Professor of Environmental
Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine<br>
</b>A public health engineer by profession and an epidemiologist by
vocation, Sandy Cairncross is interested in environmental and behavioural
interventions for disease control. Most of his career has been in
research and teaching, but a third of it was spent in developing
countries implementing water, sanitation and public health programmes. A
graduate of CUED with a PhD in soil mechanics, he spent ten years as a
water and sanitation engineer in Lesotho and Mozambique, joining the
staff of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1984.
From 1992 to 1995 he worked with Unicef in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso,
where with a WHO colleague he set up an interagency technical team to
support national Guinea worm eradication programmes in West Africa. He
now leads the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene,
and is Technical Director of WELL, a resource centre on water and
environmental health for the Department for International Development. He
is the author of numerous papers and books, including (with Richard
Feachem) Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics.<br><br>
<b>Abstract: <br>
</b>Early in his career the speaker found that, though simple technology
offers ample opportunities for engineering creativity, the greatest
challenges relate to human and institutional behaviour. The weakness of
local institutions limits the sustainability of community water supplies,
and hygiene behaviour holds the key to their potential health benefits.
Experiences of sanitation in Mozambique and Brazil are drawn upon to
develop some principles for promoting low-cost sanitation and for
understanding its benefits. Some data relating to the effectiveness, cost
and sustainability of behaviour change interventions are presented, with
an example from Ghana’s recent national handwashing campaign. The lecture
concludes with the need for a radically new approach to sanitation if the
Millennium Development Target is to be met.<br>
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Time: <b>Wednesday</b>, <b>February 15, 1:00-2:30</b> <br><br>
Location: <b>MIT</b> <b>Room 8-404<br><br>
<br>
</b>-Gayle <br>
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