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Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2010.tb10084.x
Subject(s) - nobel laureate , infectious disease (medical specialty) , public health , political science , environmental ethics , library science , medicine , disease , art , philosophy , literature , poetry , nursing , pathology , computer science
This article announces that Rita Colwell, distinguished professor from the University of Maryland and The Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. Colwell's pioneering research on the prevention of waterborne infectious diseases has helped protect the health and lives of millions. She has made exceptional contributions to control the spread of cholera. Through her groundbreaking research, innovations, and decades of scientific leadership, she has defined the current understanding of the ecology of infectious diseases and developed the use of advanced technologies to stop their spread. Her work has established the basis for environmental and infectious disease risk assessment used around the world.