WASH Conference

bio

Oliver Cumming leads the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - an inter-disciplinary research group of over thirty researchers focused on the public health aspects of water, sanitation and hygiene. He is an environmental health epidemiologist whose work centers on how environmental interventions can improve health and well-being across different settings, populations and diseases. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator for several trials to assess the impact of different environmental interventions on a range of health outcomes, including diarrhoeal diseases, soil-transmitted helminth infections, chronic and acute malnutrition, and vaccine immunogenicity. He has active research collaborations in a range of countries, including Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Mozambique and Senegal. He has published extensively, including over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles, has advised various governments and international agencies on related policy and currently serves as the co-Chair for the Lancet Commission on WASH and Health.