Early Career Research Fellow - Drew Capone
Implementing Organization
Indiana University
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$76,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Drew Capone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Indiana University. He uses engineering, epidemiology, and environmental microbiology tools to investigate the problems affecting low-income individuals and aims to improve public health in the communities where these people live. His research focuses on public health engineering, which includes public health surveillance using fecal waste streams, assessing the fate and transport of fecal contamination in the environment, and predicting public health outcomes using quantitative microbial risk assessment. Dr. Capone is currently involved in the Maputo Sanitation Trial, a health impact study of an onsite sanitation intervention, as well as developing new wastewater surveillance methods to track enteric pathogen flows at citywide scales. His lab is also building collaborations to study the compounding effects of co-infections on child health, applying modern molecular methods to study animal gut health through a One Health lens, and developing new tools for microbial risk assessment. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and previously served as a secondary school teacher with the United States Peace Corps in rural Mozambique.
Contact
Drew CaponeNone
dscapone@iu.edu
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