Sanitation training programme participants visited SASNET

From left to right: Sepali Wickrematilake, Mathew Luckose, Veena Iyer and Lars Eklund.

On 5 December 2011, participants from the Sida funded training programme on ”Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation – Integrated Processes”, managed by the Division of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University, visited SASNET’s office in Lund. The programme runs every year, and always include professionals in the field from South Asia. More information about the training programme. 

Mathew Luckose, Regional Manager for the international WaterAid organisation in Bhopal, India; Assistant Professor Veena Iyer from the Indian Institute of Public Health in Gandhinagar, India; and Dr. Sepali Wickrematilake, Consultant Community Physician, Regional Director’s Health Service Office, Kegalle, Sri Lanka, met SASNET’s deputy director Lars Eklund and discussed their respective work on water issues in India and Sri Lanka. It turned out that Dr. Iyer has several contacts with researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, such as Vishal Diwan and Ayesha d’Costa at the Division of Global health (IHCAR).