Daniele Lantagne

Daniele (MIT BS, MIT MEng, PE) is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. She is an environmental engineer who received her PhD in 2011 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed her post-doctoral work as a Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard’s Center for International Development.

She began working in household water treatment in developing countries while earning her Master’s degree, and continued teaching in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT until she joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003. Over the past fourteen years, she provided technical assistance and evaluation in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Central/South America in both development and emergency contexts. She has published over 30 papers on water supply and sanitation in developing countries and is a technical advisor to Potters for Peace, FilterPure, and charity: water.

Her main research interest is how to develop and disseminate interventions that reduce the burden of diarrheal disease and cholera in both the development context and emergencies, including engineering design, laboratory testing, field evaluations, and understanding cost-effective implementations and sustainability.