Dr Mark Sobsey

Mark D. Sobsey, is currently a part-time research professor and previously a distinguished tenured professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, since 1974. His 50+ year academic career in environmental health microbiology and infection protection and control has addressed a broad range of issues in health-related environmental microbiology and technology, infection protection and control, disinfection, microbial detection and assay methods, and water-sanitation-hygiene (WaSH) research, policy, practice and service. His recent work focuses on point-of-use household water treatment, wastewater disinfection of pathogens, environmentally related antimicrobial resistance, microbial detection methods, water reuse and environmental health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Stated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America Environmental Protection Agency, Water Environment Federation, American Water Works Association, National Water Research Institute, and other organizations.