Joe Brown PhD PE
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PhD, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC
MPhil, Environment and Development, Cambridge
BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama
I am an environmental engineer with broad interests in water and environmental health. I have been a consultant with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the International Finance Corporation, and numerous other organizations on topics related to water and sanitation.
Affiliation
Teaching
ID210 Water and Sanitation. I supervise MSc students in Control of Infectious Diseases and PhD students in environmental health and public health engineering.
Research
My research is focused on four core areas: (1) detection methods for pathogens and pathogen indicators in the environment; (2) water treatment technology characterization and innovation; (3) water infrastructure sustainability; and (4) human health effects of exposure to faecal-oral pathogens, including epidemiological methods and quantitative microbial risk assessment.
I am currently leading projects in Cambodia, Zambia, India, and the USA, and I advise on several others in Tanzania, Malawi, Pakistan, Bangladesh,and Liberia. My two largest projects are a randomized controlled trial of a safe water intervention among people living with HIV in Zambia (NIH) and a four-year study of water infrastructure sustainability and health in the rural USA (EPA).
Research areas
- Child health
- Environment
- Risk
- Water
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology
Disease and Health Conditions
- Diarrhoeal diseases
- Infectious disease
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Selected publications
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Ambient temperature incubation for the field detection of E. coli in drinking water.
Brown, J.; Stauber, C.; Murphy, J.L.; Khan, A.; Mu, T.; Elliott, M.; Sobsey, M.D.;
J Appl Microbiol, 2011;
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Microbiological effectiveness of locally produced ceramic filters for drinking water treatment in Cambodia.
Brown, J.; Sobsey, M.D.;
J Water Health, 2010; 8(1):1-10
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Sustained use of a household-scale water filtration device in rural Cambodia.
Brown, J.; Proum, S.; Sobsey, M.D.;
J Water Health, 2009; 7(3):404-12
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Ceramic media amended with metal oxide for the capture of viruses in drinking water.
Brown, J.; Sobsey, M.D.;
Environ Technol, 2009; 30(4):379-91
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Escherichia coli in household drinking water and diarrheal disease risk: evidence from Cambodia.
Brown, J.M.; Proum, S.; Sobsey, M.D.;
Water Sci Technol, 2008; 58(4):757-63
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Local drinking water filters reduce diarrheal disease in Cambodia: a randomized, controlled trial of the ceramic water purifier.
Brown, J.; Sobsey, M.D.; Loomis, D.;
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2008; 79(3):394-400
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REDUCING DIARRHEA THROUGH THE USE OF HOUSEHOLD-BASED CERAMIC WATER FILTERS: A RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED TRIAL IN RURAL BOLIVIA.
Clasen, T.F.; Brown, J.; Collin, S.; Suntura, O.; Cairncross, S.;
Am J Trop Med Hyg , 2004; 70(6):651-7
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