UEEM reappointed as WHO Collaborating Center
The Urban Environmental Engineering and Management program has been re-appointed by the World Health Organization as a WHO Collaborating Center in the field of Water Supply and Waste Disposal for a period of four years.
Professor Chettiyappan Visvanathan, the UEEM Program Coordinator, will head the Center's activities. These include performing basic and applied research on community water supply and waste disposal; conducting studies on behalf of WHO, and WHO's member states and development partners; educating and training engineers, scientists and health professionals in the filed of water supply and waste disposal, and related areas of interest; and related academic and professional activities.
On behalf of AIT, we congratulate Professor Visvanathan and his colleagues on this designation.
For further information please visit WHO Collaborating Centres in Water and Sanitation at: www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/CCs/Collabcentreslist.htm