“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and *do the other things*, not because they are easy but because they are hard.” -JFK
*targeted sequencing, tracking pathogens, scaling safe water, wastewater surveillance, etc.*
Current projects in the lab:
Multi-component chlorination intervention to reduce neonatal infections in rural health facilities: the CLEAN (ChLorine to reduce Enteric and Antibiotic resistant infections in Neonates) Trial – funded by NIH, in collaboration with KEMRI
Evaluating the potential for inline chlorination in Nigeria – funded by Givewell
Evaluating robust standardizable methods for wastewater surveillance of
pathogens and antibiotic resistance – funded by CDC
The role of concentrated animal feeding operations in the spread of antibiotic resistance in California’s Central Valley – funded by Hellman fund
Evaluating scalable strategies for delivering inline chlorination in India – funded by Givewell (Co-PIs Michael Kremer, Elisa Maffioli)
Effect of drinking water treatment on bacterial strain sharing among Kenyan children – funded by NIH
Tracking antibiotic resistant bacteria between humans, animals and the environment in urban Kenya with long-read metagenomics – funded by NSF
SoilSeq- designing and evaluating a bioinformatics module for high school students – funded by NSF
Soil Epidemiology: A new tool to monitor soil-transmitted helminth infections in endemic communities – funded by NIH
Strategies for scaling up a novel passive chlorination device (Venturi) to increase global access to safe water in Kenya – funded by Open Philanthropy and Global Innovation Fund
Impact of a 5-year community-wide chlorination intervention on child survival – Funded by Givewell and SAS