The Biotechnology Policy Forum would like to announce our upcoming seminar on Monday, June 15th at 11:00am:

“Water and Sanitation in International Development”

Who: Brooks Keene and Shadi Saboori of CARE International
When: Monday, June 15th at 11:00am
Where: Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience (IBB) Suddath Seminar Room 1128
Directions: http://www.ibb.gatech.edu/visitors/

Food and refreshments will be provided!
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Shadi Saboori:  Shadi is a Senior Research Project Coordinator working with the Center for Global Safe Water in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory.  She has coordinated data collection projects on school water, sanitation and hygiene in Kenya and community water and sanitation in Ethiopia.  She has also worked with CARE USA and Golder Associates, an environmental engineering firm based in Atlanta.  She has a degree in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Tech.

Brooks Keene:  Brooks is a Policy Advisor for the Water Team at CARE USA and was formerly a Policy Analyst with CARE.  Among other things, he has researched water and sanitation policy in Kenyan primary schools, climate change adaptation in Niger, sexual violence in the Congo and the U.S. military’s development work in Sub-Saharan Africa. Brooks previously worked for CNN International.  Brooks has a masters degree in International Affairs from Georgia Tech.

We hope to see you there!
–The BBUGS Public Policy Committee

For more information on BBUGS BPF, contact melissa_li@gatech.edu

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