Professor Guy Howard

Professor Guy Howard is the Global Research Chair of Environmental and Infrastructure Resilience, University of Bristol and the Director of the Cabot Institute for the Environment. He is a water scientist and an engineer with a background in policy and research in low and middle- income countries. Professor Howard has spent over 15 years at the Department for International Development (DFID) in a variety of roles, mostly related to water services and management. For the last six and a half years at DFID, he was the policy lead for WASH for the UK Aid programme. One of his expertise is on the relationships between WASH and health including both tackling long-standing problems of infectious and non-communicable disease by basing design on better understanding of disease aetiology and emerging issues of anti- microbial resistance and changing disease patterns l inked to climate change. Professor Howard worked on building resilience of communities and the services they rely on to short- term shocks and long- term environmental risks. This has a focus on climate change and water services, but also the inter- connectedness of multiple hazards and the cascading of risks through social and economic systems. Guy Howard is an expert of policy responses to environmental changes and in particular how community- government and private sector systems adapt to change and drive through win- wins in terms of resilience and development. Professor Guy Howard is one of the pioneers in water safety plans (WSP) with special interest in the application of WSP in low resource settings. Professor Guy Howard will contribute to the CCE TAG with his significant knowledge on the relationships between WASH, health and diseases related to climate change