Safe Water and Sanitation for a Healthier World

Dr. Jay Rajapakse is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, UK and is a Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). On gaining a doctoral degree in public health engineering, as a Deans Scholar from University College London (UCL), he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in water treatment at UCL and at Imperial College London, jointly with Anglian Water Services Plc (Alton Water Treatment Works). He was the project engineer for Salford Civil Engineering Ltd (SCEL, UK) for two years and subsequently joined the PNG University of Technology as a Lecturer in 1997 rising to be an Associate Professor in 2008. On leaving PNG, Jay spent a year at Cambridge University on a sabbatical attachment investigating new filter media for water filtration while gaining an MPhil degree in engineering from Cambridge University before joining QUT in 2010. Between 2005 and 2007, Jay won three competitive international awards: two from UNESCO-Daimler Chrysler (Water treatment solutions for remote communities, Mondialogo Engineering Award, Berlin 2005 and India 2007); and one award from the World Bank (Innovations in Water and Sanitation), Washington DC, in 2006. His main areas of research are public health engineering (filtration and pre-filtration) and remote community water treatment.