WASH Conference

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Dr. Hassaan F. Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, where his research focuses on environmental justice and equitable access to water and sanitation in cities of the Global South. His work combines rigorous systems analysis with grounded field research to examine how urban water systems can be made more inclusive, resilient, and accountable. Dr. Khan is the Founding Director of an interdisciplinary research group (KWP) that collaborates with community organizations and utilities to co-develop technological and policy-based solutions to water insecurity in South Asian cities. His recent work in Karachi sheds light on the lived realities of water access in underserved neighborhoods, revealing how governance failures and socio-political disparities shape unequal WASH outcomes.

In parallel research, he develops hydrologic and socioeconomic models to inform water management at multiple scales, from transboundary basins to rapidly urbanizing cities. He has led or contributed to projects funded by the World Bank, USAID, IWMI, the Belmont Forum, and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. Before joining Tufts, Dr. Khan was a faculty member at Habib University in Karachi and a Postdoctoral Scholar in Earth System Science at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from UMass Amherst.