Improving Maternal Health: A Water Story | Corinne Schuster-Wallace | TEDxUniversityofSaskatchewan

Описание: Academics can engage successfully with universities and NGOs in East Africa to enhance capacity and improve practice for better maternal health outcomes.
Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace has broad experience at the water-health nexus including environmental factors for, and environmental change impacts on, waterborne disease and the linkages with human health, wellbeing, and development.

She is a water-health researcher within Global Water Futures and faculty member in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Saskatchewan.

Previous positions include senior research fellow, Water and Human Development, at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), research associate in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph in Canada, and a water-environment specialist for the Public Health Agency of Canada.

In addition to publications across many different media, Corinne consulted to the Provincial Commission of Inquiry (Part II) into the Walkerton, Ontario (Canada) drinking water tragedy of 2000. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx