@public_health_engineering

Link to course : Introduction to Public Health Engineering in Humanitarian Contexts.

Link to Video directory.

1.0. Teaser.

1.1. Course Overview.

1.2. Why Public Health Engineering Matters.

1.3. Environmental Transmission Pathways.

1.4. Waterborne Pathogens.

1.5. Introduction on Water Quality Criteria.

1.6. How Does Drinking Water Become Unsafe.

1.7. Water Quantity.

1.8. Vector Control.

1.9. Madagascar, Preventing Plague in Prisons.

1.10. Summary - Week 01.

2.1. Introduction to Humanitarian Contexts.

2.2. Assessment of Needs & Planning Cycle.

2.3a. Bringing Precious Water in Rural Environment.

2.3b. Responding to Emergencies.

2.4. Introduction on Urban Contexts.

2.5. Impacts on Essential Urban Services.

2.6. A Call for a Better Urban Approach.

2.7. Water and Iraq, ICRC projects, 1991 - May 2003.

2.8. Summary - Week 02.

3.1. Introduction to Water Supply.

3.1a. Water supply in emergencies.

3.2. Water source selection.

3.3. Water Intake.

3.4. Water Abstraction.

3.5. Water Treatment.

3.6. Distribution - transport - user safety.

3.7. Summary - Week 03.

4.1. Introduction to Sanitation.

4.2. Sanitation Products.

4.3. Excreta Management in Emergencies.

4.4. Sanitation Technology Selection.

4.5. On site Collection and Storage Technologies.

4.6. Collection and Storage Treatment, Anaerobic Technologies.

4.7. Conveyance technologies - Disposing of Ebola Waste in Liberia.

4.8. Semi Centralized Treatment, Treatment Stages.

4.9. Anaerobic Technologies - Case Study: Madagascar, prisons running on biogas.

4.10. Semi Centralized Treatment, Aerobic Technologies.

4.10b. Gaza: the battle against sewage.

4.11. Summary - Week 04.

5.1. Introduction to week 5.

5.2. Hygiene Promotion in Humanitarian Contexts Using a Systematic Approach to Behavior Change.

5.3. Medical Waste Management - Part a.

5.4. Medical Waste Management - Part b.

5.5. Medical waste disposal.

5.5. Conclusion.