PLEASE SHARE THIS JOB W/ CLIMATE & HYGIENE PEOPLE Assist. or Assoc. Prof (£50-70k) at Environmental Health Group, LSHTM re: hygiene & climate / AMR / One Health Are you a planetary health & hygiene expert? 👉 buff.ly/3nJwnYP - full-time, funded for 2yrs - £150k to develop new research

I want to read this - it is going to be motivating and full of good data

LAST CALL TO SHARE THIS JOB! (deadline 23 May) I'm recruiting a gender-focused post-doc - PhD + track record in gender research/theory essential - sanitation experience *not* essential (but helps) - £43-49k - 7mths w/ hope to extend - visas sponsored buff.ly/3nMilWb

re: funding sewer upgrades from water bills, listen to In Our Time on "the Great Stink" of 1858 buff.ly/3Om8CAH Similar debates as to who should pay, and how widely geographically (London or national) - see this p.108 buff.ly/3MCKHMl

CLOSING TOMORROW! gender-focused post-doc - PhD + track record in gender research/theory essential - sanitation experience *not* essential (but helps) - £43-49k - 7mths w/ hope to extend - visas sponsored jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Having "open" and "female" categories, as British Cycling are now doing, seems to be the fairest and least-worst way to solve this divisive issue. The Economist has been making this case for a while economist.com/leaders/2022/0…

Being back at the desk is a struggle after a week with my boys in the Peak District and Bannau Brycheiniog 🌄🌊

New open access paper out with Dale Whittington on what we learnt teaching water + sanitation policy + economics & Coursera MOOCs (1/4): aetrjournal.org/UserFiles/file… UN-Water World Bank Water World Health Organization (WHO) WASHLink Prof Barbara Evans WASH Failures WASHwatch Kathryn Oliver Ofwat @NeilJefferyCEO

Found a female stag beetle on our doorstep this evening 🪲

Work out in Water Research led by EPFL School of Engineering MSc students It's an index of water service quality from (mostly) admin data on accessibility, quantity, continuity, affordability. Input data are easy to collect (vs alternatives). Can help model past/future changes in service.

We held back the dam on rising taxes for decades by slashing defence spending, and in 2010s through deep cuts to public spending. Now spiralling debt interest costs, rising spending, poor growth and demographic change are driving up size of state and hence taxes.

World Bank has withdrawn three papers, including one that flagged a “most concerning” (12 percentage points) decline in the use of toilets in rural India between 2018 and 2021. "Institutional structures that supported Swachh Bharat were not sustained.” theprint.in/india/governan…

Happy New Year! The AfHESG training sessions are back. Join the study group on 26th Jan for a session on measuring catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment. Registration link: shorturl.at/flALT #HealthEconomics

To accelerate progress towards attaining SDG 5 - gender equality and 6 - clean water & sanitation, @APHRC & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine are hosting a convening on gender, sanitation, & quality of life. Our ED, Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo attended the opening session, giving an overview of our work. #WeAreAfrica

Great to be in Marseille for #WASHecon 2nd edition! More info here washeconomics.sciencesconf.org