Sector Directory

Organization

Brown School (Social Work and Public Health) at Washington University in St. Louis

Mission

Our Vision: To create positive social change through our path-breaking research and educational excellence

The Brown School is engaged in transdisciplinary research and practice collaborations with the Schools of Engineering and Medicine to address energy poverty, household air pollution, and sustained deployment of clean energy systems to improve social and health outcomes for women and children. ® In addition to measuring cookstove performance using state of the art aerosols monitoring and lung function tests, we are also innovating by bringing systems thinking to understand issues of clean cookstove dissemination and implementation in rural communities of India.

Organizational Expertise

Adoption / Behavior Change, Capacity Building, Climate/Environment, Gender / Womens Empowerment, Health, Livelihoods, Monitoring and Evaluation, Policy Development, Research

Technologies & Fuels

Biogas, Biomass (Ag. Residue, Processed Biomass, etc.)

Clean Cooking Activities

(Yadama, Castro, Biswas, Schechtman, FES) ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ®  ® ® 
Yadama, Gautam (PI), Mario Castro (co-PI), Pratim Biswas (co-PI), and Kenneth Schechtman
(co-PI). ® Exploring respiratory health outcomes from sustained use of efficient cookstoves (India)

Yadama & Social System Design Lab, Brown School
Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS), Washington University
Yadama, Gautam (PI).® Understanding Dynamics of Sustained Use of Improved Cookstoves (India)

Partnership

Our strength is in transdisciplinary research and field trials combining social science, engineering, medicine, and system science to understand sustained use of clean cookstoves and other clean energy systems.

Regions Operating In

South Asia

Country Based In

United States

Address

Washington University in St. Louis (Goldfarb Hall)
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Website

https://brownschool.wustl.edu/Pages/Home.aspx

Primary Point of Contact

Name: Dr. Gautam N. Yadama

Title: Professor & Director of International Programs

Email: yadama@wustl.edu

Phone: 314-935-5698

Secondary Point of Contact

Name: Dr. Edward F. Lawlor

Title: Dean

Email: elawlor@wustl.edu

Phone: 314-935-6600