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Professor Katrina Charles is a leading academic in Environmental Health Risks at the University of Oxford. She serves as the Academic Director for the MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management, Chair of the Oxford Water Network, and a Sloane Robinson Official Fellow in Environmental Change at Reuben College, Oxford. Her research focuses on water security, climate resilience, and risk communication, with a mission to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6.1) for safe drinking water.
- Education: PhD in wastewater risk management from the University of Sydney (Australia).
- Academic Journey: Joined Oxford University in 2013 after lecturing at the University of Surrey.
Research Interests span interdisciplinary analysis of water quality risks, microbial hazards, antimicrobial resistance, and equitable access to water and sanitation. Her team develops methodologies to measure multipathogen risks, climate change impacts, and sampling biases in low-resource settings.
Key projects include the REACH Programme (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya) and the GCRF Hub for Water Security, funded by FCDO, WHO, UKRI, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She collaborates with UNICEF and local governments to implement SafePani (Bangladesh) and Fit-for-Purpose Laboratories (Kenya).
Teaching highlights include leading the Water and Health module and co-leading a Health, Environment, and Development elective with the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health. She supervises graduate students working on climate-water linkages, feminist ethics in digital economies, and delta city water security.
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