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jcbaumgartne@wisc.edu Jill Baumgartner is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Population Health Sciences and Land Resources studying environmental epidemiology and advised by Jonathan Patz at the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Jill completed her M.S. in Population and International Health at Harvard University where her research focused water and sanitation technology assessment in developing countries. For her thesis, she examined the implications of user behavior on the effectiveness of appropriate technologies (biosand and ceramic filters) in meeting health needs. Jill's other recent projects includes field research on water and sanitation and HIV/AIDS in Kenya, South Africa and India. Jill is broadly interested in the environmental determinants of human health and disease at the population level and in low-cost technologies aimed at reducing environmental risks in developing countries. She will conduct her dissertation research in Yunnan, China as part of a National Science Foundation IGERT Traineeship. In Yunnan, Jill has preliminary ideas about investigating the human health implications of exposure to biomass combustion from indoor cooking and heating in rural areas. Specifically, she would assess indoor air pollution levels and exposure, measure and quantify the health implications of pollution exposure, and compare both exposure and health outcomes among users of different cooking and heating technologies. Before coming to SAGE, Jill obtained a B.A. in International Relations from the UW-Madison (2000) and worked at several nongovernmental organizations including CARE and Satellife (a Boston affiliate of the Academy for Educational Development). She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Sichuan, China, where she worked on gender and development projects and served as a lecturer at a small college.Jill's interests outside of SAGE include traveling, cycling, walking her dog and procrastinating by reading the NY Times. |
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