Job title:
Assistant Professor
Bio/CV:
Laura (Layla) H. Kwong is an assistant professor in Environmental Health Sciences who focuses on exposure to environmental contaminants and infectious disease, impacts on child and maternal health and development, and interventions to reduce adverse impacts. She has worked in Bangladesh, India, China, Mongolia, Fiji, Indonesia, Peru, Uganda, and Mali in urban, rural, and humanitarian settings.
Research interests:
- Designing and testing interventions to improved child and maternal health in low-resources settings
- Household interventions to reduce air pollution and/or mitigate climate change
- Environmental health in humanitarian settings
- Children’s exposure to parasites and enteric pathogens and interventions to reduce exposure to feces in to soil and food.
- Management of adult and child feces through container-based sanitation and child-friendly toilets
- Animal feces management
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