Emma is a Global Environmental Engineering PhD student at CU. She came to CU after working as a Community Health and Education Program manager for a NGO in rural Guatemala where she worked with health promoters to run malnutrition prevention, diabetes management, home improvement, and adolescent health programs. In 2016-2017 Emma worked in the CDC's Global Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) group. At the CDC she conducted research on the effectiveness of WASH interventions and outbreak response, and provided technical advising to organizational partners. While earning her BA in Sociology and Community Health from Tufts University, Emma conducted research on chlorine concentrations used for disinfection and hand handwashing during the 2015 Ebola outbreak. She looks forward to building on these experiences with the skills she will learn at CU to research water quality in low-and middle-income countries.
Education
- BA, Sociology and Community Health, Tufts University
Recent Publications
Wells E, Wolfe MK, Murray A, Lantagne D (2016) Accuracy, Precision, Ease-Of-Use, and Cost of Methods to Test Ebola-Relevant Chlorine Solutions. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0152442. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152442
Curran, K. G., Wells, E. F., Crowe, S. J., Oremo, J., Boru, W., Githuku, J., . . . Kioko, J. (2018). Systems, supplies, and staff: A mixed-methods study of health care workers’ experiences and health facility preparedness during a large national cholera outbreak, Kenya 2015. BMC Public Health, 18(723).
Fagerli, K., Hurd, J., Wells, E. F., McAteer, J., Kim, S., Seal, L., . . . Quick, R. (2018). Evaluation of use, acceptability, and effectiveness of household water filter systems in Honduras, 2016–2017. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development,034.
Wilner, L., Wells, E., Ritter, M., Casimir, J. M., Chui, K., & Lantagne, D. (2017). Sustained use in a relief-to-recovery household water chlorination program in Haiti: Comparing external evaluation findings with internal supervisor and community health worker monitoring data. Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development,7(1), 56-66. doi:10.2166/washdev.2017.035
Wolfe MK, Wells E, Mitro B, Desmarais AM, Scheinman P, Lantagne D (2016) Seeking Clearer Recommendations for Hand Hygiene in Communities Facing Ebola: A Randomized Trial Investigating the Impact of Six Handwashing Methods on Skin Irritation and Dermatitis. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167378. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167378
Iqbal Q, Lubeck-Schricker M, Wells E, Wolfe MK, Lantagne D (2016) Shelf-Life of Chlorine Solutions Recommended in Ebola Virus Disease Response. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156136