Professor Daniele Lantagne

Ms Lantagne is an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University.  She is a public health engineer (MIT BS 1996, MIT M.Eng. 2001, PE 2003) who received her Ph.D in 2011 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  She began working in water, sanitation, and hygiene to reduce the burden of infectious disease in 2000, working at MIT and CDC. She completed her post-doctoral work at Harvard's Center for International Development from 2010-2012, and joined Tufts University as a Professor in 2012. Over the past 21 years, she provided technical assistance or conducted research in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Central/South America in both development and emergency contexts. She has published over 80 papers on water supply, water treatment, hygiene and sanitation in low-income and humanitarian contexts.  Her main research interest is how to reduce the burden of infectious diseases by investigating and evaluating the effectiveness of water and sanitation interventions. She runs an active group completing laboratory, field, and policy research with funding from agency, government, NGO, foundation, and private sources. She enjoys rocket ashtanga yoga, cooking ethnic and vegan foods, backcountry hiking, state high pointing, and raising her two children with her husband.