Water for health and wellbeing
Applying a One Health approach to the role of resilient freshwaters in community health and wellbeing.
About
Key to life, water resources globally are under increasing pressure from changing climatic patterns, rising demand for food production and rapid but often unregulated urbanisation. This puts pressure on global water safety and security and creates the perfect terrain for spreading water risks.
Our interdisciplinary group of social and natural scientists has expertise in various areas, including pathogens, eco-toxicology, modelling and freshwater ecosystem health. Together, they consider the actions required to address threats to human health and recognise the longer-term need to sustain the ecosystems that underpin human wellbeing and livelihoods.
Project highlights
Learn more about our interdisciplinary research:
PhD research
| PhD project | Student | Supervisor | Partner |
|---|---|---|---|
Cryptosporidium movement in water- impact of eutrophication and climate change on the zoonotic disease agent | Laura Hayes | Jo Cable | Public Health Wales |
One man’s meat is another man’s poison: exploring the effect of mass drug administration against schistosomes on the aquatic food web | Daniel McDowell | Jo Lello | Natural History Museum London |
Cryptosporidium movement in water- impact of eutrophication and climate change on the zoonotic disease agent | Bozo Lugonja | Jo Cable | |
Understanding the role of coinfection in disease and infection control | Sarah Rollason | Jo Lello |
Cyanobacteria in our drinking water can produce “taste and odour” compounds which, while not dangerous, are unpleasant. Work at the universities of Cardiff and Bath aims to better understand, and eventually predict, the blooms of cyanobacteria that produce these compounds