Rachel Peletz BSc MEng

Research Degree Student

Rachel completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Engineering Science at University of California, Berkeley and her MEng in Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At Berkeley, her research included laboratory and field testing in Haiti of the UV Tube, an ultraviolet light point-of-use disinfection system for low-resource settings. At MIT, she conducted a cross-sectional study on ceramic household filters in Ghana and joined an ecological sanitation design project in Gujarat, India. For two years she worked for the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST, www.cawst.org) in Canada as an International Technical Advisor for Asia, where she conducted technical training and consulting on water and sanitation projects in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Affiliation

Teaching

Rachel assists with the module on Design of Disease Control Programmes in Developing Countries. She is an assessor for the distance learning module on Water and Sanitation ID210.

Research

Rachel is currently researching drinking water quality in HIV-endemic settings in Zambia. Particularly, her research examines the water quality that infants born to HIV-positive mothers receive, either through drinking water directly or through replacement/complementary feeds. The objective of the research is to explore whether this population may benefit from a household water treatment technology intervention.

Research areas

  • Child health
  • Disease control
  • Environmental Health
  • Sanitation
  • Water

Disciplines

  • Engineering
  • Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Diarrhoeal diseases
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infectious disease
  • Malnutrition

Regions

  • Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)

Countries

  • Zambia
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