Health and environmental effects of neighborhood sanitation upgrades in Quelimane, Mozambique
Determining the health and environmental impacts of a neighborhood-wide sanitation intervention in Quelimane, Mozambique
This project will collect health and environmental samples before city-wide sanitation upgrades in Quelimane to look at how cleaner sanitation changes children's and community health and disease spread.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R21 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Trustees of Indiana University NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Bloomington, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11111402 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
You may be asked to take part in baseline health surveys and provide samples in Quelimane just before large neighborhood sanitation upgrades funded by the World Bank reach your area. The team will collect information on children's growth and illnesses and take environmental samples to test for pathogens, with samples stored for later lab analysis if funding allows. Researchers will follow neighborhoods through the upgrades to see how cleaner sanitation affects rates of infections, child growth, and community resilience to cholera. Because the project uses real implementation timing rather than random assignment, they rely on careful before-and-after comparisons to understand changes.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal participants are residents of the Quelimane neighborhoods targeted by the planned sanitation upgrades, especially households with young children under five who can provide health information or samples.
Not a fit: People living outside Quelimane or whose health problems are unrelated to fecal-oral pathogens are unlikely to receive direct benefit from this project.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could show that neighborhood sanitation upgrades reduce childhood infections, improve growth, and strengthen community protection against cholera and other fecal-oral diseases.
How similar studies have performed: Other community sanitation programs have sometimes reduced diarrheal disease and improved child growth, but rigorous evidence for city-wide sanitation effects in low-income urban settings is limited, making this approach relatively novel.
Where this research is happening
Bloomington, United States
- Trustees of Indiana University — Bloomington, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Capone, Drew — Trustees of Indiana University
- Study coordinator: Capone, Drew
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.