Timothy Ford to deliver keynote at Maine Water Conference 

Timothy Ford, Ph.D., dean of Graduate Studies and interim dean of the Westbrook College of Health Professions, has been chosen as a keynote speaker for the Annual Maine Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 19th, sponsored by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center’s Water Institute. Ford’s speech is titled “Global Studies in Water and Health: Implications for Maine.”

In his talk, Ford will discuss the difficulties of sustaining interventions to reduce the burden of waterborne disease, and examples will be used from studies in Russia and India.  Key questions that Ford will address are: how are we so different in the U.S., and particularly in rural Maine?; does climate change place water supplies at significant risk?; and what opportunities are there to improve surveillance for waterborne disease?
 

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