WORKSHOP 3: How-to Series: Leveraging the Links between Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Health

Many see the provision of sanitation services as a technical challenge calling for the skills of engineers to design, build, and operate facilities. However, the need for sanitation is about individual well-being and public health, which in turn has broad economic benefits. For those benefits to accrue, the construction and delivery of sanitation infrastructure are not sufficient; it must be used hygienically and considered in broader water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) context.

Vedala Srinivas Chary

Professor Chary is the Director at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI). He leads the Center for Urban Governance, Environment, Energy and Infrastructure Development, which is recognized as a ‘Center of Excellence’ by the Government of India. He provides the strategic guidance for its advisory, consulting, research and capacity development program, and the 80-member team of faculty, consultants, advisors, and research associates. He is an urban environmental planner and public health engineer with over two decades of experience in water and environmental sanitation.

Robert Dreibelbis

Robert is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director for LSHTM's Environmental Health Group that focuses its research on the links between water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and health.

He is particularly interested in understanding the determinants of WASH and WASH-related behaviors and developing and evaluating WASH and WASH behavior change interventions in households, communities, and institutions.