

Garrick E. Louis
Associate Professor


Biography:
Garrick E. Louis has served on the faculty since 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation and a member of the faculty at the State University of New York before coming to the University of Virginia.
Research Interests:
Garrick Louis' research goal is to assure safe, reliable, and affordable sanitation services to underserved communities worldwide. These services consist of drinking water, wastewater and sewage treatment, and solid waste management. The work develops methods for needs assessment, performance evaluation/gap analysis, and strategic resource allocation for sustainable sanitation service capacity assurance and disseminates examples of best practice in these methods. The work is pursued through a consortium of collaborators from the service industries, government agencies, grassroots organizations and funding agencies. It is supported by National Science Foundation grant # 9984318.
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