The Safe Water Initiative: Household Water Treatment as Part of the Solution to Water-Borne Disease—Strategies, Context, and Implications
Glenn Austin
13 February 2007
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About the speaker
Glenn Austin is director of the PATH Safe Water Project, a 5 year project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that began December 1, 2006. This project aims to deliver a range of very low cost product choices for household water treatment in low income households through stimulation and facilitation of a new commercial market. Mr. Austin has lead product development projects for 25 years and has lead health technology development at PATH for 19 years. He developed a process at PATH that puts developing country end-users at the center of product development decision making. PATH has commercialized over 26 technologies that improve global health in developing countries in the areas of vaccine delivery, immunization, nutrition, safe birth and safe motherhood, reproductive health, and diagnostics. PATH focuses not just on improved, affordable, and accessible technologies but also on the equally important aspects of strengthening systems and encouraging healthy behaviors.