Sera L. Young

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Sera Young joins PLOS Water as co-Editor-in-Chief - Latitude We are delighted to welcome Professor Sera Young to PLOS Water as co-Editor-in-Chief! Sera is a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University…

🌊 🪩 It brings me great pleasure to announce that yesterday I started as co-Editor-in-Chief at @plos.org Water! 🌊 🪩

A bit about my vision for the journal here: latitude.plos.org/2025/10/sera...

Please reach out with ideas, suggestions, & even (esp?) constructive criticism. 🧡 💛 💚 🩵 💙 💜 ❤️‍🩹 More soon!

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Community-Driven Solutions in Global Health with Patrick Mbullo Owuor, PhD Patrick Mbullo Owuor, PhD, a pioneering anthropologist and public health leader, discusses his community-driven solutions to global health challenges in Kenya and beyond. He shares how local action an...

🎙️Patrick Mbullo Owuor, PhD, a pioneering anthropologist and public health leader, discusses his community-driven solutions to global health challenges in Kenya and beyond in the new episode of our #ExploreGlobalHealthPodcast.

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Thrilled to share that IMPACT Initiatives is implementing the 💧 Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales in 12 countries facing humanitarian crises! HWISE-4 data will help calculate People in Need, enabling more efficient aid response in places like CAR 🇨🇫, DRC 🇨🇩, Lebanon 🇱🇧, Haiti 🇭🇹 and Ukraine 🇺🇦

Living the Global Water Crisis: How the World Experiences Water Insecurity As the world grapples with water security challenges exacerbated by climate change, demographic change, and conflict, tools like the Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales help quantify the human ...

See the IWISE Data in this feature by @foodwater.csis.org here: www.csis.org/analysis/liv...

Heartbreaking but not surprising headline from @nytimes.com today. Back in 2020, Afghanistan was amongst the most water insecure countries in the @gallup.com World Poll. My thanks to @indirabose.bsky.social for flagging this story.

UNESCO.org, @wfp.org, @UNICEF.org, @charitywater.bsky.social, @helvetas-ch.bsky.social & Oxfam.

Materials in English, French, Portuguese & Spanish
💧 Learn how WISE data is changing policy & practice across Africa
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📢 Join us this Sunday (Aug 23) at @SIWI_water World Water Week! Our session on "Advancing Water Security in Africa Using Experiential (WISE) Data" features success stories from Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Mali & Sierra Leone!
🌍 Available both online & in-person

Key findings: 1. Water insecurity increases depression risk. 2. Food insecurity impacts depression more than water insecurity. 3. Combined food and water insecurity heightens depression risk. 4. These effects are consistent across genders.

Thanks to co-authors Hilary Bethancourt, Teresa Shamah-Levy, Verónica Mundo Rosas, Alicia Muñoz Espinosa, Talia Ginsberg, Suneetha Kadiyala, Edward Frongillo, and Pablo Gaitán Rossi, and funders.

Congratulations to Indira Bose for leading analyses on the link between food and water insecurity in Mexico and mental health. This research was made possible by Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública's data collection over 4 years.

The utility of experiential water insecurity measures for monitoring and evaluating WASH programs: Case studies from Nepal and Sierra Leone Progress toward safe water for all is predominantly tracked using directly observable, resource-based indicators, including primary water source and water collection travel time. There is growing…

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What I love about this new WISE Scales paper in PLOS Water is how PRACTICAL it is! Organizations like Helvetas and Oxfam successfully used these scales in Nepal and Sierra Leone to measure the human impact of water interventions. We need more tools that capture effects on people's daily lives!

We are thrilled to share the latest newsletter from the WISE-LAC Network, marking two incredible years of collaborative research and action to improve water security across Latin America and the Caribbean! 🥂 🎂
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How much salt is OK in drinking water? Without limits, Australia’s health gap widens in remote and regional areas Two litres of tap water in the regional New South Wales town of Walgett has as much sodium as an entire large bag of sea salt popcorn.

Read it in @aunz.theconversation.com : theconversation.com/how-much-sal...

Even low sodium levels in drinking water can be harmful. However, our review of 197 countries' guidelines, led by Juliette Crowther & Jacqui Webster, found most are based on taste, not health. This change needs to be pushed! (Yes, that's a Salt-N-Pepa reference!) #waterinsecurity

Write Before Midnight - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Write Before Midnight A Bulletin short fiction contest Announcing the Bulletin‘s new short fiction contest… Over the decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published the smartest minds in ...

Hey, fiction writers: We're having a short story contest, and the wonderful Kim Stanley Robinson is the judge. The stories need to have some conceivable connection to (avoiding) the Apocalypse. thebulletin.org/write-before...

We received the "Champions of Health" Award from @inspmx.bsky.social. It honors hundreds of researchers and partners who've made #WISEScales successful across 80+ countries. Thank you to all contributors and funders for highlighting water insecurity challenges.

Investigating the suitability of dichotomous responses for the Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales using nationally representative data from 39 countries The Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales have been validated to comparably measure water insecurity globally. The scales consist of 12 items that can be administered in approximately 3 minutes. ...

📊 New study validates simplified yes/no responses for WISE Scales - making water insecurity measurement even faster! Same accuracy, half the options. Big win for global water security research! 💧

Read it here, in @plos.org :
journals.plos.org/water/articl...

Investigating the suitability of dichotomous responses for the Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales using nationally representative data from 39 countries The Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales have been validated to comparably measure water insecurity globally. The scales consist of 12 items that can be administered in approximately 3 minutes. ...

📊 New study validates simplified yes/no responses for WISE Scales - making water insecurity measurement even faster! Same accuracy, half the options. Big win for global water security research! 💧

Read it here, in @plos.org :
journals.plos.org/water/articl...

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It's painful to move platforms. Sky follower bridge helped me to find some of my twitter friends! ✨ Check it out: share.sky-follower-bridge.dev?q=338 #skyfollowerbridge

Want to join our study? Check your eligibility here: wise-dx.org

Northwestern University researchers develop rapid test for lead in water Chicago has more lead service lines than any other city in the United States. That concerning stat has inspired researchers at Northwestern University to help with a solution.

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Thrilled to share that our WISE-Dx project was featured on cbschicago.bsky.social today! We're developing a rapid at-home test for lead in water that gives results in just 30 mins. Helping Chicago tackle its 400k+ lead service lines, one test at a time. link in comments

Northwestern's scientific innovation faces significant setback under Trump - Evanston RoundTable The Trump administration's funding cuts to Northwestern University's research programs have caused significant damage, with 80% of the school's research funding cut, and the loss of 790 million dollar...

Our appreciation to @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social for their coverage of some of the implications of the shortsighted federal research funding cuts. IYCMI: each $1 invested in federal research generates ~$5 in productivity, health, & living standards.

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Some of the brains behind this very cool paper, in action at UNC Water and Health earlier this year.

💧New research: Can yes/no responses speed up water insecurity measurement without losing too much detail?

IMMANA Fellow @indirabose.bsky.social explores this trade-off using data from 39 countries.

📄Learn more about methods to measure issues with water bit.ly/3HhpaZl

#WISEScales #SDG6 #Water

Last week, Prof. Will Dichtel dropped some serious knowledge about tackling #PFAS contamination in our water systems. His team at NU Chem is doing groundbreaking work on selective PFAS removal materials.

Awesome to see folks from Loyola's Getzinger group getting in on the conversation too!