Zoe is the project manager for the collaboration between NESTSMX and the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) focusing on intermittent water supply and its impacts on health, gender, and economic outcomes. She graduated in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and International Studies from the University of Michigan, where she also spent three semesters in the Roberts Lab. She has since completed a post-baccalaureate program at Washington University in St. Louis, and is currently pursuing a joint MD-PhD training path in medical anthropology. Zoe has experience coordinating interdisciplinary teams and working closely with ethnographic data and methods. Her research interests include critical medical anthropology, science and technology studies, institutions, materiality, care, and reproduction. (zoebo@umich.edu)

I am a biology student at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. I conducted my social service practice in the Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad (LANCIS), focusing on the area of ​​water quality doing microbiological analysis. My interests lie in the different dynamics of families with water in Mexico City and how this relates to water quality. I am also interested in science communication directed at citizens, related to the importance of water as an ecosystem service in Mexico City.  (anacebege@ciencias.unam.mx)

I am a Ph.D candidate in Biological Anthropology at the University of Michigan. My previous research was focused on genomic analyses of evolutionary processes in indigenous and admixed populations from Southern South America. I obtained a B.A. degree in Anthropology from the University of Chile. In my doctoral research, I investigate the effects of water insecurity in physical and mental health among women from Mexico City, using a biocultural approach. My research interests include environmental health, biocultural anthropology, and Latinx studies.  (palomacz@umich.edu)

Alyssa Huberts is a PhD student in Government at Harvard University.  She studies urban political economy in Latin America, with an emphasis on service provision within megacities. Prior to beginning her PhD at Harvard, Alyssa worked at Ashoka in Mexico City under a Fulbright Binational Business Grant, and at the InterAmerican Development Bank's research department in Washington, D.C.  (alyssa_huberts@g.harvard.edu)

My research focuses on the development of intelligent water grids, which have the potential to revolutionize the interaction between hydrologic systems and man-made infrastructure. My long-term goal is to build the Internet of water, an intelligent cyber-physical system that connects natural water bodies with physical infrastructure. This demands the use of advanced sensing technologies and data-driven models on top of a novel communications backbone. One main area of interest is the control and optimization of large-scale water systems, spanning everything from water supply (lakes, snowpack, reservoirs) to demand (agricultural and urban uses, hydropower production, decentralized operations of municipal water grids). Many solutions to this large-scale systems problem couple domain knowledge from of Civil and Environmental Engineering with an enlarged set of tools from Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  (bkerkez@umich.edu - Personal page in Civil and Environmental Engineering)

My research focuses on health disparities. In general, members of socially disadvantaged groups have worse mental and physical health than those who have higher social status. My work seeks to identify, explain, and reduce gender, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation health disparities. My primary research goals are: (1) To use novel approaches to assess health disparities across the life course, (2) To identify the social structural, psychological, behavioral, and physiological mechanisms by which social disadvantage leads to health disparities, and (3) To develop and test interventions to reduce the effect of social disadvantage on morbidity and mortality.  (needhamb@umich.edu)

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Prof. Sánchez joined Drexel University in 2019 as a Dornsife Endowed Professor of Biostatistics. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University. In 2006 she joined the Biostatistics Department of the University of Michigan, where she was later named John G. Searle Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor with tenure in 2018.

Her research interests are in statistical methodology applicable to environmental epidemiology, and social epidemiology, and health disparities. Her current methodological work involves developing robust fitting procedures and diagnostics for Structural Equation Models, and using these methods in applications to environmental health problems such as in-utero lead exposure and its effect on child development. She also conducts research on study design for longitudinal studies, in particular the design of studies involving salivary cortisol as a measure of stress in health disparities research. Sanchez also investigates the applicability of various functional data methods to studies of salivary cortisol.

Her collaborative research spans environmental epidemiology, social epidemiology, and health disparities in the areas of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and the distribution of body mass index.  Within environmental epidemiology, her work focuses on the impact of lead and air pollution exposure on birth outcomes, and child development and behavior. Her work on health disparities and social epidemiology has included the analysis of the effectiveness of school level interventions to reduce child obesity, among others.  (bns48@drexel.edu - Link to personal page. )

Martha M Téllez-Rojo, obtained a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Mexico (2003) after a Masters in Statistics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1994). She is a senior researcher (ICM-F) at the Center for Nutrition and Health Research at the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico with more than 250 papers published in high impact scientific journals and more than 6000 citations. Her main focus of research is the study of the long term effects of the co-exposure of environmental toxicants and nutritional conditions during gestation and infancy. Since 2002, she has been the principal investigator from the Mexico site of the ELEMENT (Early Live Exposure in Mexico to Environmental Toxicants project) birth cohort study that started in 1994. Along with Drs. Robert and Rosalind Wright and Andrea Baccarelli, has also been one of the principal investigators of the PROGRESS (Program Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment and Social Stressors) birth cohort study since its beginning in 2007. Both studies still ongoing in collaboration with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, University of Columbia, University of Michigan and University of Toronto. From 2004-2014, she headed the Statistical Division at INSP. During that time, she was also very active designing, conducting and analyzing several projects on program evaluation of social interventions. Among the most important projects she has participated in this area is the impact evaluation of Oportunidades, the main anti-poverty program in México; the impact evaluation of Seguro Popular, a health policy aimed to finance and provide health services to more than 50 million Mexicans and she leaded the impact evaluation of 70 y más, the federal anti-poverty program for the elderly population. She had a leading role in the conduction of several national surveys on health-related topics as well. Most of her recent work is focus on impacting health policy of lead exposure in Mexico.  (mmtellez@insp.mx)