Applying a One Health approach to the role of resilient freshwaters in community health and wellbeing.
Key contacts
Professor Shailen Nandy
Professor of International Social Policy
- nandys1@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 9675
About
Our interdisciplinary group of social and natural scientists has expertise in a variety of areas, including pathogens, eco-toxicology, modelling, and freshwater ecosystem health.
Together, they consider the actions required to address threats to human health but also recognise the longer term need to sustain the ecosystems that underpin human wellbeing and livelihoods.
Key to life, water resources globally are under increasing pressures from stressors such as 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 the spread of water risks.
Current initiatives
Contact us to find out more about our ongoing research activities.
- Research on COVID-19
Our affiliated researchers currently collaborate with Bangor University, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and Public Health Wales to monitor the levels of SARS CoV-2 and other key diseases in Welsh urban centres:
- Biomonitoring of antimicrobial resistance in UK freshwater ecosystems
- A ‘One Health’ approach to wildlife and human pathogens in sub-Saharan Africa
- Multidimensional poverty in the developing world
- Modelling pathogen transport
PhD projects
Biomonitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in UK Freshwater Ecosystems: an Integrated Microbiological and Genomic Approach
- Student: Clare Brown
- Lead supervisor: Frank Hailer
- Partners: DEFRA, CEFAS
Cryptosporidium movement in water- impact of eutrophication and climate change on the zoonotic disease agent
- Student: Laura Hayes
- Lead supervisor: Jo Cable
- Partner: Public Health Wales
Novel Water Treatments for zoonotic pathogen cryptospridium
- Student: Bozo Lugonja
- Lead supervisor: Jo Cable
One man’s meat is another man’s poison: exploring the effect of mass drug administration against schistosomes on the aquatic food web
- Student: Daniel McDowell
- Lead supervisor: Jo Lello
- Partner: Natural History Museum London
Understanding the role of coinfection in disease and infection control
- Student: Sarah Rollason
- Lead supervisor: Jo Lello