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Lina
Taing
Director,
Water
Without
Borders
Graduate
Diploma
Program,
Senior
Researcher
Water
&
Health, United
Nations
University
-
Institute
for
Water,
Environment
and
Health
(UNU-INWEH),
McMaster University,
Canada
Dr. Lina Taing has over a decade of research, project management and capacity building experience in the WASH and HIV sectors. At UNU-INWEH, she leads the thematic direction on interactions between water management and human health. She coordinated and led interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral teams focused on improving basic water and health services for the urban and rural poor, and served as a consultant for governments, parastatals, health providers and NGOs in Southern and Eastern Africa. Before joining UNU-INWEH, she conducted policy implementation research at IHE Delft, the Netherlands, where she also developed the behaviour science-focused module for a new MSc in Sanitation funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.