Lee Voth-Gaeddert
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Phone: 602-543-5246
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Mail code: 5701Campus: Tempe
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Dr. Voth-Gaeddert is a professional environmental engineer, US registered sanitarian, and a certified systems engineer with 10+ years of experience in solving complex global challenges in water, sanitation, antimicrobial resistance, food security, and child health. Dr. Voth-Gaeddert has worked for numerous US Government (USAID, US State Department, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Peace Corps, Millennium Challenge Corporation) and UN entities in providing support to countries in meeting SDG targets. His work is at the nexus of technological innovation, human-technology systems, and convergence research frameworks. He has worked in 10+ countries in North and Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia incorporating mechanistic and statistical modeling, information and communications technologies, environmental microbiology and bioinformatic methods, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Dr. Voth-Gaeddert has 30+ peer-reviewed publications (H-index = 10) and 70+ (inter)national presentations.
2017-8 Post-grad Global Health Engineering, Tufts University
2017 Post-grad Paediatrics and Child Health, University of the Witwatersrand
2017 PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, Missouri S&T
2014 MS Environmental Engineering, Missouri S&T
2012 BS Civil Engineering, Missouri S&T
Goal: Mitigate human exposure to environmental contaminants (primarily microbial)
Aim: Provide equitable opportunities and access to basic human needs (see SDGs)
Primary Research Focus
- Environmental exposures and child health
- Gut microbiome, resistome, and child development
- Big data, analytics, and machine learning in environmental health and critical control points
- Water security and safety in low-resource settings
- Technology and decision support tool development for decentralized water systems
- Low-cost, advanced tech platforms for improved rural water system management
- Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and sewage management
- Improving AMR surveillance techniques and decentralized control technologies
- Optimizing use of available sanitation assets to sustainably improve services
Distributed and collaborative teams across multiple sites and countries including Arizona, US States and Territories, Guatemala, and South Africa.
See here for full list: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=1jMQh4UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Selected Publications:
Lindmark, M., Cherukumilli, K., Crider, Y.S., Marcenac P., Lozier, M., Voth-Gaeddert, L.E., Lantagne, D.S., Mihelcic, J.R., Zhang, M., Just, C., Pickering, A.J.,(2022). “Passive chlorination for scalable water disinfection in resource-constrained settings: A Critical Review”, Environmental Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c08580
Irakoze, A.F., Esposito, F., Schranck, A., Voth-Gaeddert, L.E., (2022). “A Community Water System Mapping (CWSMap) Platform for Supporting Rural Water Operators”, Accepted, IEEE Global Humanitarian Technologies, 2022.
Momberg, D.J., Voth-Gaeddert, L.E., Richter, L.M., Norris, S.A., Said-Mohamed, R., (2022). “Rethinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) for human growth and development”, (in press: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2022.2036218)
Momberg, D.J., Ngandu, B.C., Voth-Gaeddert, L.E., May, J., Norris, S.A., Said-Mohamed, R. (2021), “Governance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in sub-Saharan Africa and associations with nutritional status in children under five years of age: A systematic review”, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 12(1), 6-33.
Voth-Gaeddert, L.E., Lemley, M., Brathwaite, K., Momberg, D., Schranck, A., Libbey, S., (2022). “Evaluating a Batch Chlorination Method for Household Cistern Water Treatment in the US Virgin Islands”, Accepted, Journal of Environmental Engineering. 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0002059
Our aim is to use convergence research and user-centered design approaches to co-solve local environmental health and engineering challenges working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EVE 493 | Honors Thesis |
| EVE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EVE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EVE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| EVE 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EVE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| EVE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| EVE 314 | Data Sci Environ & Civil Engr |
| IAL 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Early Career Board Member, Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE)
2021 +1Global Fund Nomination, Top Child Malnutrition-WaSH Project
2020 68th Annual CDC ATSDR Honor Awards Nomination, Best Project in Health Equity
2019 Best Innovative Environmental Health Solution, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
2018 MIT Impact Program Fellow, MIT
2017 Student Exchange Ambassador, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2017 Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, USG
2016 Superior Achievement Award, American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
2016 Global Leaders Institute
2015 Weiner Assistantship Award, Missouri S&T
2015 Sigma XI 1st Place Engineering Award
2015 Global Engineering Education Exchange Ambassador
2014 Miner Alumni Leadership Scholarship
2014-7 Chancellors Fellow Missouri S&T
2014 Chi Epsilon Honor Society, Missouri S&T
2012 Cum Laude, Civil Engineering, Missouri S&T
2012 Academic All-American NCAA Division II Baseball
2012 Presidential Academic Honor Roll, Missouri S&T
2011 Academic All-Conference NCAA Division II Baseball, Missouri S&T
2009 Presidential Honor Roll, Bethel College
Early Career Board Member, Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE)
Reviewer:
- Water Research
- Environmental Science & Technology
- International Journal of Environmental Health Research
- Journal of Environmental Engineering
- Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
- Health Policy and Planning
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- BMJ Paediatrics
- The Journal of Nutrition
- Association of Environmental Engineers and Science Professors (AEESP)
- National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES)
- National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
- International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
- Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Engineers Without Boarders (EWB)
- Peace Corps Response Volunteers (PCRV)
- International Water Association (IWA)
- Water Environment Federation (WEF)
- International Exchange Alumni, US Depart. of State
- Chi Epsilon Honor Society
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Current:
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (AMR, surveillance, control technologies)
- Love City Stong, Inc (Water treatment technologies, decision support tools)
Past:
- Athena Infonomics (AI, digital technology, service delivery)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (food security, nutrition)
- Love City Strong, Inc (Data analytics, water treatment design and testing)
- Catholic Relief Services (food security, fungal toxins)
- Mennonite Central Committee (water access, sanitation latrine design)
- Athena Infonomics
- US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- US Peace Corps
- Development Alternatives International (DAI)
- US Agency for International Development
- US Department of State
- Millennium Challenge Corporation
*See CV for full profile