Gabrielle String , Ph.D., M.S.
Dr. Gabrielle String is currently a postdoctoral scholar in environmental health for the Lantagne Group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. Her primary research interests include evaluation of water and hygiene implementations to inform programming decisions in both development and emergency contexts. Dr. String has worked in the field and laboratory on projects evaluating safe water supply, water treatment, water storage, and surface disinfection. She has conducted research for organizations including UNICEF, charity: water, Solidarités International, USAID OFDA, and R2HC. She completed her BS at Clarkson University and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University, where her dissertation examined community and household level approaches to drinking water supply in low resource settings.