About Our Work

Our team aims to understand how compromised water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions impact physical and mental health, behavior, education, and empowerment in low-income settings, with a specific focus on women throughout their life course.

Our work includes application of qualitative methods, measurement development, hierarchical modeling approaches, theory-based intervention design, and impact and process evaluation. The team have carried out fieldwork in Kenya, India, Bangladesh, Bolivia, and Uganda, and has supported research in Mali, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and the Philippines, among other locations.

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Recent Publications

Child feces management practices and fecal contamination: a cross-sectional study in rural Odisha, India.

Gender data gaps represent missed opportunities in WASH.

Role of team dynamics in the learning process: a mixed-methods evaluation of a modified team-based learning approach in a behavioral research methods course.

‘It’s like a burden on the head’: Redefining Adequate Menstrual Hygiene Management Throughout Women’s Life Course in Odisha, India.

Design of a parallel cluster-randomized trial assessing the impact of a demand-side sanitation and hygiene intervention on sustained behavior change and mental well-being in rural and peri-urban Amhara, Ethiopia: Andilaye study protocol.

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