our partners

IPWR is committed to working with organizations and individuals who are engaged in ethical practices to provide sustainable access to adequate, quality drinking water worldwide. The Institute aims to foster multi-disciplinary collaborations with credible organizations and experts whose mission, vision and values are aligned.

While new partners and collaborations are actively being formed, we would like to thank the following organizations for contributing to the growth and development of the Institute in achieving its mission. As a result of their support, IPWR has been able to reach out to communities worldwide, through scientific discovery, outreach and public health education, to ensure equitable access to safe water.

IPWR welcomes new stakeholders to participate in ongoing activities. For more information on how to become involved, call 312-355-3219 or e-mail us at info@ipwr.org.

 

Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies of Sciences
The IOM serves as an adviser to the nation to improve health. IPWR has partnered with the IOM Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice to bring attention to issues surrounding public health and water research. Under this Board, The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine was established to provide a mechanism for parties interested in environmental health from the academic, industrial, and federal research perspectives, to meet and discuss sensitive and difficult issues of mutual interest in a neutral setting.
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University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health works to enhance the quality of life through the improved health of the public. The school is dedicated to the protection and improvement of the health of people not only in Chicago and the state of Illinois but across the nation and around the world.

     
 

Business for Social Responsibility
BSR provides socially responsible business solutions to many of the world's leading corporations. Headquartered in San Francisco and with offices in Europe and China, BSR is a nonprofit business association that serves its 250 member companies and other Global 1000 enterprises. Through advisory services, convenings and research, BSR works with corporations and concerned stakeholders of all types to create a more just and sustainable global economy.

     
 

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The mission of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is to contribute to the improvement of health worldwide through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training in national and international public health and tropical medicine, and through informing policy and practice in these areas.  IPWR has awarded a fellowship to one of the School’s students currently doing research in Uganda on the relationship between poverty, health, environmental conditions, and access to vital resources such as water.

     
 

Virginia Technical Institute and State University
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college named Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Virginia Tech is now a comprehensive, innovative research university with the largest full-time student population in Virginia. Through a combination of its three missions of learning, discovery, and engagement, Virginia Tech continually strives to accomplish the charge of its motto: Ut Prosim (That I May Serve).

     
 

The University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is one of the world's premier research universities. It is committed to maintaining a research environment conducive to creating and freely disseminating the very best scholarly contributions and scientific discoveries. Berkeley is consistently rated among the top institutions in the world for the quality and breadth of its research enterprise, for the scholarly distinction of its faculty, for the excellence of its Ph.D. programs, and for the amount of funding received for support of its research programs. Berkeley ranks first amongst U.S. universities in the number of its research programs considered "distinguished" (32), according to the most recent National Research Council study of American universities.

     
 

Bloomberg School of Public Health
As a leading international authority on public health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is dedicated to protecting health and saving lives. Every day, the School works to keep millions around the world safe from illness and injury by pioneering new research, deploying its knowledge and expertise in the field and educating tomorrow's scientists and practitioners in the global defense of human life.

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