Water and Health Conference hosted online 4-8 October 2021

The UNC Water and Health Conference is convened online 4-8 October 2021. This year’s event, themed ‘Science, Policy and Practice’, invites professionals everywhere to participate.

A selection of sessions hosted are displayed below, for the full agenda please visit the conference website and register here.

• 4 October, 8:30-10:30 am US EDT
  • Day 1 Plenary Session: Getting our sh** together
• 4 October, 12:15-1:15 pm US EDT
  • Achieving Hand Hygiene for All: evidence and capacity priorities for global progress
• 4 October, 1:30-2:30 pm US EDT
  • Costs of basic hand hygiene in domestic settings – modelling for 47 least developed countries
• 5 October, 10:45 am-12:00 pm US EDT
  • Five years into the SDGs: taking stock of global monitoring of WASH
• 5 October, 10:45 am-12:00 pm US EDT
  • Measuring menstrual health and hygiene
• 5 October, 12:15-1:15 pm US EDT
  • Strengthening national capacities in water quality testing
• 5 October, 12:15-1:15 pm US EDT
  • Updates and lessons learned on WASH in Schools and safe school reopening during COVID-19
• 5 October, 12:15-1:15 pm US EDT
  • Looking deeper: a research agenda to advance health, safety and dignity of sanitation workers
• 5 October, 1:30-2:30 pm US EDT
  • An assessment of portable kits for testing of E. coli in drinking water
• 6 October, 10:45 am-12:00 pm US EDT
  • One-health AMR and WASH: Is the apoocalypse coming?
• 6 October, 12:15-1:15 pm US EDT
  • Water quality monitoring
• 7 October, 10:45 am-12:00 pm US EDT
  • Implementing proposals for global and national monitoring of WASH services affordability