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Michael De Santi

Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholar, Lassonde School of Engineering

Graduate Student Scholar

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Michael is a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Lassonde School of Engineering. Michael works as a researcher on the Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) project at the Dahdaleh Institute, where he is developing new modelling tools to predict water quality in refugee and internally displaced person settlements. Prior to joining the SWOT team, Michael obtained a BASc in civil engineering from the University of Toronto and worked for several years as a water design specialist. His current research focuses on developing holistic tools for assessing water safety risk in humanitarian response settings.

Themes

Global Health & Humanitarianism

Status

Active

Events

5th Annual Global Health Graduate Scholars Symposium | November 18, 2024


Forecasting Water Quality in Humanitarian Response, with Michael De Santi | August 26, 2022


Related Work

Safe Water Optimization Tool | Project, Research

Updates

Dahdaleh Researchers Awarded Connected Minds Grant to Co-Design Novel Machine Learning-Enabled Public Health Risk Assessment Tools in Uganda | November 20, 2024

Hot off the Press — Evaluation of the Safe Water Optimization Tool to Provide Evidence-Based Chlorination Targets in Surface Waters: Lessons from a Refugee Setting in Uganda | October 15, 2024

Nineteen Exceptional Scholars Awarded 2024-2025 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships | August 29, 2024

DIGHR awarded major grant from Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge to help improve safe water and public health in humanitarian crises | January 16, 2024

SWOT Team Brings Data into Action at University of North Carolina Water and Health Conference | November 9, 2023

Ten Exceptional Scholars Awarded 2023-2024 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships | September 7, 2023

Student Opportunity FW23-24 – Safe Water Optimization Tool RAY Student | September 6, 2023

Recap — Graduate Student-led Research on Probabilistic Modelling with Machine Learning for Safe Water Optimization | July 5, 2023

Dahdaleh Institute Members Celebrate Earth Month 2023 by Planting Trees on YorkU Campus | April 14, 2023

York U researchers’ revamped AI tool makes water dramatically safer in refugee camps | November 4, 2022

2022-2023 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships Awarded to Eight Outstanding Scholars | September 9, 2022

Hot Off the Press – Modelling residual chlorine in humanitarian response in PLOS WATER | September 6, 2022


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