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Dr. Aminata Kilungo holds a PhD in Soil, Water and Environmental Science, and Microbiology from the University of Arizona. She works with communities in Arizona including the Arizona-Sonora Border region, and in Sub-Saharan Africa on issues related to water security and safety, and environmental health. Her work in Sub-Saharan Africa focuses on finding sustainable holistic approaches to address issues related to water and health, specifically to address waterborne and water related diseases. Some of her work in this area includes working with the World Health Organization (WHO), Tanzanian government agencies, and local governments to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in communities impacted by cholera. Some of her work in Arizona includes evaluation of the environmental health status along the Arizona-Sonora Border region to identify gaps, and to provide recommendations to the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission (BECC) and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (U.S EPA), on where to focus resources to improve overall health for the border community. Currently, Dr. Kilungo is working with a team of multi-disciplinary scientists from the University of Arizona, to build community resilience, and to improve community’s understanding to water security and safety issues, such as microbial water quality and safety of harvested rainwater for different uses. Before joining the University of Arizona, she worked as a Director of Research and Development for the Sonora Environmental Research Institute (SERI) Inc., a non-profit organization in Tucson. Prior, she worked as a lead environmental scientist contractor for the U.S Army Garrison at Fort Huachuca. Dr. Kilungo also serves on the Federal National Advisory Committee (NAC), to advise the U.S EPA on the implementation of the North American Agreement on Environmental Corporation to improve the environment and the health conditions in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Courses
  • OHACS
    One Health Approach and Cases Studies

  • PHFR
    Public Health Fundamentals for Researchers

  • STPH
    Special Topics in Public Health

  • GWSH
    Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

  • PHP
    Public Health Preparedness

  • PHC
    Public Health in the 21st Century

  • GH
    Global Health

  • IDGHD
    Infectious Diseases, Global Health and Development

  • PHPI
    Public Health Preparedness I

Grants
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    Evaluation and Epidemiology Support for Implementation of the 1815 Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Diabetes Prevention Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $938.7K
    Active
  • Funding agency logo
    Evaluation and Epidemiology Support for Implementation of the 1815 Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Diabetes Prevention Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2019

    $35.4K
    Active
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    Advancing Informal Environmental STEM Literacy & Learning: Co-Created Citizen Science Rainwater Harvesting in Underserved Communities

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2016

    $2.3M
News
  • UA Professor Bicycles Across Tanzania, Testing Water

    2011

Publications (15)
Recent
  • Evaluation of Pharmacist-Led Telephonic medication Therapy Management Program in Rural Arizona: Implication for Community Health Practice

    2022

  • Minding the gap: socio-demographic factors linked to the perception of environmental pollution, water harvesting infrastructure, and gardening characteristics

    2022

  • COVID-19 lockdowns: Employment and business disruptions, water access and hygiene practices in Nairobi's informal settlements

    2022

  • The Efficacy of Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) Tests for Detecting Microbial Contamination in Harvested Rainwater Samples

    2022

  • Local Perceptions, Cultural Beliefs, Practices and Changing Perspectives of Handling Infant Feces: A Case Study in a Rural Geita District, North-Western Tanzania

    2020

  • Partnering for action: community monitoring of harvested rainwater in underserved, rural, and urban Arizona communities

    2019

  • Increasing Environmental Health Literacy through Contextual Learning in Communities at Risk.

    2018

  • In Situ Real-Time Quantification of Microbial Communities: Applications to Cold and Dry Volcanic Habitats

    2018

  • Evaluation of Well Designs to Improve Access to Safe and Clean Water in Rural Tanzania

    2018

  • Pollution Prevention through Peer Education: A Community Health Worker and Small and Home-Based Business Initiative on the Arizona-Sonora Border.

    2015

  • Continuous Real-time Detection of Microbial Contamination in Water using Intrinsic Fluorescence

    2013

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