Funding: Mentored Researcher Development Award
This project examines the extent, causes, and public health consequences of lack of access to community water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in North Carolina African American communities, specifically including: 1) roles of race and SES status in WASH access; 2) how lack of WASH access contributes to health disparities and resulting health and economic costs; and 3) policy and institutional barriers that perpetuate WASH disparities and the potential public health service solutions and benefits. This project is a new systematic state-wide analysis to document the extent of these disparities, quantify the public health consequences, and analyze policy and public health practice solutions.
Jamie Bartram, Ph.D.
UNC at Chapel Hill
- Disparities in Water and Sewer Services in North Carolina: An Analysis of the Decision-Making Process (Technical Report, 2014)
- Racial Disparities in Public Water Service in North Carolina (Project Summary Video, September 2015)
- Water and Sewer Service Disparities in North Carolina: Public Health Implications (Disparities Seminar, November 2014)
- Disparities in Access to Water and Sewer Services in North Carolina: Background and Preliminary Results (NC Public Health Association, September 2014)
- Disparities in Access to Public Water and Sewer Service in North Carolina, PHSSR RE-ACT Podcast, April 2014)
- Racial Disparities in Access to Public Water and Sewer Service in North Carolina (PHSSR Keeneland Conference, April 2014)
- Racial Disparities in Access to Public Water and Sewer Service in North Carolina: An Analysis of Public Health Impacts & Policy Solutions (PHSSR Research in Progress Webinar, January 2014 recording)
- Reducing Emergency Department Visits for Acute Gastrointestinal Illnesses in North Carolina (USA) by Extending Community Water Service (Environmental Health Perspectives, October 2016)
- Extending Municipal Water Service Would Reduce Emergency Room Visits Linked to Contaminated Wells (Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health Newsletter, September 2016)
- Disparities in Water and Sewer Services in North Carolina: An Analysis of the Decision-Making Process (American Journal of Public Health, August 2015)
- Racial Disparities in Access to Community Water Supply Service in Wake County, North Carolina (Frontiers in PHSSR, August 2014)