Liberty, Equality, and Safe Sanitation
In this year's Prytanean Lecture, Professor Ray will discuss what sanitation, often considered an "impolite" topic, means for health, safety, freedom and gender equality. We shall see why access to the humble toilet is a human right. The talk draws on research from multiple disciplines, such as public health, urban planning, and the social sciences.
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Speaker:
Isha Ray is professor at the Energy and Resources Group. She has a B.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University. Dr. Ray's research interests are water and development; sanitation, gender and development; and technology and society. She and her students have worked on access to, and affordability of, domestic water and energy in India, China, Turkey, Mexico, Tanzania and California's central valley. Dr. Ray is also a regular adviser to United Nations Women and UNESCO. She is currently serving on the Lancet Commission on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene.