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Research

“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

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