Past Speakers

Dr. Thomas Clasen
Household Water Treatment in Low-Income Settings: Effectiveness, Experience and Issues in Scaling Up
November 16, 2009

Tom Clasen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on water and sanitation in low-income populations including randomized trials of novel filtration technologies, WHO reports on scaling up household water treatment and the role of the intervention in achieving MDG water targets, He holds an MSc (Control of Infectious Diseases) and PhD from the University of London, and a JD from Georgetown University.

Dr. Derek E. Chitwood
Drinking Water Issues and Proposed Solutions for Indigenous
Peoples in Mountainous Southwest China
October 28, 2009

Dr. Derek E. Chitwood earned his doctoral degree from the University of Southern California in Environmental Engineering. He is the director of technical operations for Partners in Hope, a nonprofit, charity organization based in China. For the past 8 years he and his family have lived in Yunnan Province in southwest China working to provide clean drinking water to the indigenous poor.

Henock Gezahegn
Mixes that Heal the Water
October 28, 2009

Mr. Henock Gezahegn has extensive senior management experience, having led activities in both the private and public sectors for the last 21 years. He is currently leading one of the most successful Safe Water System programs in PSI/Ethiopia as Marketing and Communication Director. He has contributed to major scientific studies in the area of Point of Use water treatment products. Gezahegn has studied Microbiology and has his M.S. degree in Rural Development.

Dr. Stephen Luby
Frontline of the Global Water Crisis: Efforts to Secure
Safe Water in High Need Rural Communities

Dr. Christine Moe is the Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation and the Director of the Center for Global Safe Water at Emory University. Her primary appointment is in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, and she holds joint appointments in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Department of Epidemiology.

Dr. Christine Moe
Glittering Bathrooms that Fit Your Pocket: Water, Sanitation and Health
for Remote Areas in the 21st Century

Dr. Christine Moe is the Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation and the Director of the Center for Global Safe Water at Emory University. Her primary appointment is in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, and she holds joint appointments in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Department of Epidemiology.

Edward D. Breslin
Rethinking Water Supply and Sanitation in Developing Countries: Moving to Impact
April 17, 2009

Ned is the acting CEO and Director of International Programs at Water for People. To view a copy of his presentation Click here.

Dr. Menachem Elimelech
Water Technologies to Solve Increasing Global Water Scarcity
February 20, 2009

Dr. Elimelech is Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Yale University. To view a copy of his presentation Click here.

Dr. Mickey Sampson
Meeting the Challenge of Drinking Water for the Third World
September 8, 2008

To see an article in the Norman Transcript about Dr. Sampson lecture Click here.
Dr. Sampson is the founder and Country Director for Resource Development International and has lived with his family in Cambodia to work on arsenic issues for over ten years. for over ten years.

Daniele Lantagne, PE
Implementing Water Projects in Developing Countries
April 18, 2008

Daniele Lantagne works for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Altanta, GA. She received her Environmental Engineering degrees (BS 1996, M.Eng 2001) from MIT and is currently pursuing her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Frank Broadhurst
Preventing Disease Outbreak in Complex Emergencies
January 25, 2008

Frank Broadhurst was the Senior Technical Advisor for Environmental Health (EH) at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New York and oversaw all IRC EH programs globally. In that role, he coordinated EH responses to complex humanitarian crises and natural disasters in over 20 Countries.

Derek E. Chitwood
Fecal Contamination of Springs in Southwest China: Impacts on Drinking Water Quality
November 15, 2007

Derek Chitwood is an Environmental Development Consultant with International Health Resources in Kunming, Yunnan, China www.ihronline.org.

Freda Margiloff and Paul Kleine
Experiences from Development Projects in Tanzania
October 8, 2007

To visit an article in the Norman Transcript about this lecture click Here.
Dr. Paul Kleine is a retired OU Professor of Educational Psychology who has spent the past 10 years leading construction teams for Habitat for Humanity around the US. More recently he has led 4 construction and well drilling trips to Tanzania. Freda Margiloff is an alumnus of OU working with the African Sustainable Protein Project.

Dr. James Smith
Sustainable Point-of-Use (POU) Water Treatment Technologies for Developing Global Communities and Refugee Camps
April 4, 2007

Dr. Smith is currently a Professor at the University of Virgina. Learn more about Dr. Smith on his webpage.

Malcolm Morris
Living Water International and The Millennium Water Alliance: History, Strategy and Funding
March 2, 2007

Malcom Morris is Chair of the Millenium Water Alliance, Chair of Living Water International and the CEO of Stewart Title Company.

Dr. Angela Bielefeldt
Engineering for Developing Communitites: Education for the 21st Centry
February 12, 2007

Dr. Bielefeldt is the current Director of the Environmental Engineering Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Joan Rose
Advancing the Art of Microbial Risk Assessment
December 7, 2006

Joan Rose is the 2006 AEESP Distinguished Lecturer, Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research and Director of the Center for Water Sciences at Michigan State University.

Derek E. Chitwood
Fecal Contamination of Springs in Mountainous Southwest China
April 24, 2006

Derek Chitwood is an Environmental Development Consultant with International Health Resources in Kunming, Yunnan, China www.ihronline.org

Dr. James R. Mihelcic
Engineering Sustainable Development: Service, Education & Research
April 21, 2006

Dr. Mihelcic is a Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Master’s International Program in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Sustainable Futures Institute at Michigan Technological University Click for more details.

Dr. Michael Campana
Hydrophilanthropy: Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
November 18, 2005

Dr. Campana was Director of the Water Resources Program and Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of New Mexico and is currently Director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University.