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SuSanA North America Meeting

The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) will host a meeting for the North American contingent just before the UN Water Conference in New York. The event will feature SEI researchers among several other speakers.

19 March 2023 at 10:00 EDT

ending at 16:15 EDT

The SuSanA North America Meeting is jointly organized by the Global Steering Committee Member Prof. Kartik Chandran (Columbia University) and the SuSanA-Secretariat (hosted at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ).

Session 1: 10:00 – 12:30 EDT

Moderated by: Prof. Diane Kellogg, emer. (Bentley University)

  • Welcome & Opening, Prof. Dr. Kartik Chandran (Columbia Universitv)
  • Introduction SuSanA, Arne Panesar (Head @ SuSanA Secretariat)
  • Keynote “WASH4Health”, tbc
  • SuSanA WASH4Health discussion paper 2.0, SuSanA Secretariat
  • SuSanA MHH Compilation – Edition May 2023, SuSanA Secretariat
  • COVID-Monitoring & Wastewater Based Epidemiology, Prof. Dr. Francis de los Reyes (NCS), Prof. Dr. Kartik Chandran (Columbia University

Session 2: 14:00 – 16:15 EDT

Moderator: TBC

  • Sanitation at the UN Water Conference
  • Productive Sanitation for food security in times of climate change, Carla Liera (SEI)
  • Sanitation in Cities: A key to improve resilience, Katrin Bruebach (Global Dir. @ RCN)
  • Citywide inclusive Sanitation in a small towns in Uganda, Dr. Christoph Lüthi (Head SANDEC @EAWAG)
  • Potential of the Urban Water-Flow Diagramm to interlink sectors, Dr. Dorothe Spuhler (SANDEC @ EAWAG)
  • Waterwise cities principles 2.0 – how to best include
    Sanitation? (tbc)
  • UN-Habitat Global Wastewater Report 2023, (tbc)
  • Closing

SEI Speaker

Carla Liera
Carla Liera

Research Associate

SEI Headquarters

Event details

Session 1: 10:00 – 12:30 EDT

Session 2: 14:00 – 16:15 EDT

Location: Columbia Engineering: 1045 S.W. Mudd; 500 W 120th St, New York, New York County 10027 USA.

The event has a limited capacity of max. 60 people. Register on the SuSanA website below to guarantee your seat and to receive reminders via email.

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