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.
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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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for events
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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.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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
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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. |