NWC Seminar Series: Speaker
(in assocation with The University of Oklahoma School of Civil Engineering)
Front Line of the Global Water Crisis: Efforts to Secure Safe Water in High Need Communities
Stephen Luby
University of Oklahoma International Water Prize Winner
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Dr Stephen Luby graduated with a degree in philosophy from Creighton University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 1986 and his internship and residency were in internal medicine at the University of Rochester‐Strong Memorial Hospital. Dr. Luby studied epidemiology and public health in the Epidemic Intelligence Service and the Preventive Medicine Residency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 1992 Dr. Luby’s professional efforts have focused on conducting public health research in low income countries with a focus on improving drinking water quality and handwashing practices in high need communities in several countries. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Luby directed the epidemiology unit of the Community Health Sciences Department at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. From 1998 – 2004 Dr. Luby worked as a Medical Epidemiologist in the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2004 Dr. Luby has headed the Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences at ICCDR,B, The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. He is seconded from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and resides with this family in Dhaka Bangladesh.