Tom Outlaw, Chief of Party | tom@watershedasia.org
Tom Outlaw, MBA, has 15 years of combined experience in drinking water quality regulations and the design and management of international health and development programs. In 2007, Tom co-founded, with Dr. Mark Sobsey, the Carolina Global Water Partnership, an initiative of the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health focused on commercial models for scaling point-of-use water technologies. Previously, Mr. Outlaw was Senior Technical Advisor for USAID’s Population-Health-Environment Program, a portfolio of integrated health, conservation and development programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Mr. Outlaw was also regulatory affairs manager for the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, representing the state agencies responsible for implementation of the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act. Mr. Outlaw has consulted for a variety of companies, NGOs and government agencies, including USAID, the Academy for Educational Development, Johnson & Johnson and Progress Energy. He has also worked with a variety of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Asia and Africa to explore ways of involving MFIs and commercial banks in partnerships with NGOs, entrepreneurs and donors in the water supply and sanitation sectors, to provide financing for borrowers on both the producer/manufacturer and consumer sides of microfinance lending.
Mark Sobsey, Principal Investigator | sobsey@email.unc.edu
Dr. Mark Sobsey is a Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a B.S. in Biology (1965) and a M.S. in Hygiene (1967) from the University of Pittsburgh, Pa. and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley (1971). This was followed by a post-doctoral position (1971), instructorship (1972) and assistant professorship (1973) in the Department of Virology and Epidemiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He joined the faculty of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in 1974 as an assistant professor. Professor Sobsey is internationally known for research, teaching and service in environmental health microbiology and virology and in water, sanitation and hygiene, with more than 200 published papers and reports. His research, teaching and service encompass the detection, characterization, occurrence, environmental survival/transport/fate, treatment, human health effects characterization and risk assessment of viruses, bacteria and protozoa of public health concern in water, wastewater, biosolids, soil, air and food for the prevention and control of water-, food- and excreta-borne disease. His most recent research focuses on household water treatment for improved water quality and health. Professor Sobsey is an author, consultant and scientific advisor to the World Health Organization, US Environmental Protection Agency, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the State of North Carolina and other international, national and state entities. His honors include being the 2001 recipient of the American Water Works Association A.P. Black Award for research excellence. He is a member of the American Water Works Association, the International Water Association, and the American Society for Microbiology and the International Association for Food Protection and the National Environmental Health Association.
Kaida Liang, Program Manager | kliang@email.unc.edu
Kaida Liang, M.S.
Geoff Revell, Country Coordinator, Cambodia | geoff@watershedasia.org
Geoff Revell, M.A.
Mimi Jenkins, Investigator | mwjenkins@ucdavis.edu
Mimi Jenkins, PhD, is a Professional Research Engineer at the University of California at Davis and holds a joint appointment with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has over 18 years of combined research, professional, and consulting experience in rural water supply, sanitation, and public health engineering in developing countries, including Chad, Congo, Madagascar, Ghana, Benin, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya and Bangladesh. In 1991, Mimi acquired her MS in water resources and environmental engineering from the University of California, Davis, following four years as a public health engineer responsible for rural water supply and sanitation development in the Congo and Chad. Before returning for her PhD which she received from UC Davis in 1999, she gained experience in epidemiological surveillance, health and hygiene promotion, operational research, and community water supply development while working for Unicef in Benin as the Water and Environmental Sanitation Project Officer responsible for the National Guinea Worm Eradication Programme. Under the guidance of Sandy Cairncross and faculty at UC Davis, she conducted her PhD research in 1995-1996 in Benin on understanding and modeling household sanitation choices and the determinants of changes in sanitation behaviour with a goal to assess the drivers of new demand for sanitation and the potential of a marketing approach to sanitation promotion. This work proved fundamental in shaping the direction and momentum for current work at the Hygiene Centre in sanitation marketing and promotion in developing countries. Her research work at UC Davis involves the development and application of systems analysis and operations research methods, and economic-engineering modeling tools, to integrated water resources planning, management and policy problems in California and Kenya.
Joe Brown, Investigator | joebrown@bama.ua.edu
Dr. Joe Brown has had 8 years experience working on water and sanitation, primarily in Latin America and in Southeast Asia, focusing on environmental microbiology and health impacts of watsan interventions. He has been a consultant with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and numerous national and international NGOs. He is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama's New College, with joint appointments in the departments of Biological Sciences and Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, where he heads the UA environmental health microbiology laboratory. His publications include field trials of point-of-use drinking water technologies, broad-based assessments of intervention sustainability, and environmental health. He received his PhD in environmental sciences and engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2007. More info.