DETROIT (September 24, 2018) – A research team at Wayne State University recently received a four-year, $1.57 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its project, "Water and Health Infrastructure Resilience and Learning."
The project — which includes examining drinking water and public health systems — will provide new insights as to how these systems interact, with a focus on crisis events.
The team will also explore how these systems learn about and adapt to changes and how the public engages with these systems.
The project also includes researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina.
"This project builds on previous work conducted in Wayne County and Flint, Michigan," said Seeger.
The project also aims to understand how tightly coupled interdependent systems such as water and public health can help enhance resilience.
It will also include a national survey to understand how well water and public health infrastructures can adapt to future challenges.
Our team includes political scientists, sociologists, disaster researchers, epidemiologists and water engineers, giving us many tools for examining the complexities of water and health systems."
For more information about research at Wayne State University, visit http://www.research.wayne.edu.
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