Urban Sanitation and Child Exposure to Diarrheal Pathogens in Bangladesh
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Better understanding of how household and community sanitation affects child exposure to fecal contamination and diarrheal pathogens could improve the design of sanitation interventions in low-income urban communities. This project includes a case-control study to assess observable household and community sanitation characteristics as risk factors for child clinical diarrhea cases. It also includes an in-depth microbial sampling component to measure environmental fecal contamination among households with varying sanitation service levels.
WHD Project Leads
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Oceans and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, of Environmental Social Sciences and Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute
Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health