Curriculum Vitae – Jamie Bartram Professor, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK ([email protected]) Professor Emeritus, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA ([email protected]) Full Name James Kniveton Bartram Nationality British Languages English: first language. Spanish: good working knowledge. Italian: basic working knowledge. French: basic working knowledge. Country Experience Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, India, Israel, Italy*, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru*, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Senegal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland*, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, UK*, USA*, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe (asterisk indicates multi-year residence). Education PhD University of Surrey, 1996. Thesis: Optimizing the Monitoring and Assessment of Rural Water Supplies. BSc University of Surrey, 1985, (Hons, First Class). Microbiology. HNC Paddington Technical College, London, UK, 1982. Medical Laboratory Sciences (special subject: microbiology). Professional Experience Jan 2020 to Professor in Public Health and Environment, School of Civil Engineering, University date of Leeds (part-time). July 2019 Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School to Dec of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (part-time). 2020 Successful completion by one Master’s student advisees; ongoing advising (to date) of two doctoral student advisees and mentoring of three post-doctoral fellows. June 2009 Director of the ‘Water Institute at UNC’ and Don and Jennifer Holzworth to June Distinguished Professor (until 2012: Professor), Department of Environmental 2019 Sciences and Engineering, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Responsibilities and achievements included: • Conceiving a Water Institute; serving as founding director; managing stakeholder consultation to inform strategy development, implementation and updating. Overseeing Institute development including staffing, fundraising, development of processes and periodic review and strategy updating. External 5-year review documented extensive impact on policy (including the SDGs as a deliberate target for influence), programming (including large NGOs and Curriculum Vitae – Jamie Bartram government), and practice, concluding “… has carved out an estimable role as one of the most important centers for applied research and knowledge synthesis on [water sanitation and hygiene-related] issues in the entire world.” • I received 117 funded grants and awards, from $1,500 to $2.1 million, totalling $16,217,409, from 48 awarding bodies. • Research: operational research normally with implementing agencies such as international NGOs; policy research into national and international policy initiatives, alternatives and their outcomes; and research into the impacts of environmental health interventions both proximal (such as improved drinking water management) and distal (such as adaptation to weather extremes). • Teaching: I developed four new courses, all in cooperation with other Faculty, two taught annually; and was part of team that re-conceptualised the MSEE. • Advising: I advised five doctoral students, 25 research Master’s students and five undergraduates pursuing honours theses; and mentored three junior faculty and 10 post-doctoral researchers. Other achievements: • Designation of the Water Institute as a World Health Organization and Pan- American Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Water and Sanitation (2017–2021), serving as Centre Director. • Supported the design, development and launch of the US Water Partnership, launched by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012, with the Water Institute at UNC as one of five founding partners. Chair of Membership Working Group and Steering Committee member. • Development of new Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development (IWA Publishing), serving as Editor-in-Chief until 2018. • Development of ‘Water and Health: where science meets policy’ conference, as a signature annual event. Annual Water Microbiology conference launched in 2014 and biennial Nexus conference in 2015. • Secured adoption of, and served as co-chair of, UNC-Chapel Hill inaugural campus-wide theme ‘Water in our World’ (2012–2015). • Co-conceived, with Chancellor Folt, UNC Three zeroes threezeros.unc.edu/ • Sponsored Catarina de Albuquerque for a UNC honorary degree (2015). Oct 2006 to Coordinator: Assessing and Managing Environmental Risks to Health, World Health June 2009 Organization Headquarters (Geneva, Switzerland) (concurrent Leading and managing a Unit with a biennial budget of US$21.5 million. with the below, for Responsibilities included: 2006) • Contributing to organization-wide and departmental strategic planning. • Defining and developing WHO’s roles, responsibilities and strategic direction in assessing and managing environmental health risks. • Developing and implementing plans of work, monitoring performance, and instituting corrections; managing resources and ensuring highest standards. • Personnel management and staff development; also Chair of the WHO Global Reassignment Committee (2008–9). • Mobilizing technical and financial resources. • Providing leadership in formulation of evidence-based interventions. • Identifying emerging technical and policy issues and initiating responses. • Advising governments on strategies to reduce disease burden. • Representing WHO in high-level international scientific and policy forums. • Fostering partnerships. 2 Curriculum Vitae – Jamie Bartram The Unit focused on ensuring an adequate evidence base to support policy-making and decision-taking in public health and environment, through: • International leadership on risk assessment. • Servicing international conventions and agreements. • Monitoring MDG and other international development targets. • Developing normative 'guidelines' and supporting their implementation. • Assessing health risks, burden of disease and health impact. • Providing tools and assessments on cost and impact of disease control. • Guidance on good practices and policy and technical alternatives. • Serving as WHO focal point for environmental emergencies and disasters. Key achievements • Development and implementation of strategy on environment and health in emergencies: stockpiling, rosters of trained experts, information ‘toolkit’, comprehensive web site and first systematic review of detected events. • Conceptualize and initiate an ‘annual report’ (GLAAS) on country progress and ESA support on water and sanitation, under the aegis of UN-Water. 2004–2006 Chair, UN-Water. (concurrent Elected chair of the body that ensures coherence and coordination in UN system with the action on water and related issues. Principal roles in leadership of overall direction above and and coordination among 23 UN entities and 12 international partners. below) Key achievements during my chair-ship: • Negotiated 23-agency agreement on Terms of Reference. • Established transparent and participatory structure. • Development of a membership and institutional architecture including increasing UN agency membership, 12 international partner entities, central resource and establishing dedicated associated offices. • Development and initial implementation of first inter-agency Plans of Work in: disaster reduction, water scarcity, gender, sanitation and trans-boundary waters. • Increased annual funding for UN-Water offices from US$2 to 7.5 million. • Ensured visibility in inter-governmental forums e.g. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-13). 1999–2006 Coordinator, Water Sanitation and Health, World Health Organization Headquarters (concurrent (Geneva, Switzerland). with the Leading and managing a Unit with a biennial activity budget of US $3.2 million. The above for Unit was the subject of a very positive internal evaluation in 2006. 2004–2006) Responsibilities included: • Personnel management and staff development; also alternate Chair of WHO Global Reassignment Committee (2006–7). • Oversight of strategic direction, programme and project development. • Resource mobilization and budgeting and management. • Development of networks of collaborators, Collaborating Centres and communities of practice. Key achievements: • New communication strategy addressing multilingualism and innovative use of electronic media, placing the Unit as third most visited WHO web site, having 15 of the 50 most in-demand documents from WHO HQ. 3 Curriculum Vitae – Jamie Bartram • Major change in approach to international norms (‘standards’), delivered through formal guidelines (drinking-water, recreational water environments, use of wastewater excreta and grey-water in agriculture and in aquaculture, ship sanitation, hygiene and sanitation in aviation), now applied in more than 90 developing and developed countries. • Rehabilitation of the WHO/UNICEF ‘Joint Monitoring Programme’ as UN system- wide MDG monitoring system for water and sanitation. • Establishment of communities of practice: 70+ member 'Network for Safe Household Water' (government, NGO, private sector); 30-partner