As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Jackie MacDonald Gibson, Department Head and Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, US, will present: Mapping and quantifying health effects of inequities in community water service in North Carolina, USA.
This event is in person in DC 1302 with a networking reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl).
Speaker Bio
Dr. Jackie MacDonald Gibson is Head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Gibson’s research has characterized and sought solutions to eliminate inequities in access to safe, reliable drinking water services in North Carolina and beyond. She also has conducted citizen science research with environmental justice communities to characterize exposure to environmental hazards and the resulting health effects. She was selected for the Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership Academy 2022-2023 cohort, a program funded by the National Institutes of Health and administered by the University of Michigan. Her research develops quantitative methods to characterize environmental risks to human health and to identify optimal technical and policy solutions. She earned a dual PhD from the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University; an MS from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; and a BA in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College. She is currently a topic editor for Environmental Science & Technology.