WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE (WASH)

Publications

Perlman B, Collins SM, Van Den Hoek J. Public health implications of satellite-detected widespread damage to WASH infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. 2025. PloS Global Public Health. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004221.

Tallman PS, Collins SM, Rusyidi B, Salamon G, Kothadia A, Cole S. Water insecurity and gender-based violence: a global review of the evidence. WIREs Water. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ wat2.1619

Shah SH, Menghwani V, Harris LM, Stoler J, Brewis A, Miller JD, Adams EA, Jepson W, Pearson AL, Workman CL, Wutich A, Young SL, HWISE Research Coordination Network. Variations in household water affordability and water insecurity: An intersectional perspective from 18 low- and middle-income countries. Environment and Planning. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1177/26349825231156900

Tallman PS, Salmon-Mulanovich G, Archdeacon N, Kothadia A, Lopez Flores L, Catañeda K, Collins SM, Cole S. “Gender-Based Water Violence”: Cross-cultural evidence for severe harm associated with water insecurity for women and girls. Violence Against Women. 2024; https://doi.org/ 10.1177/10778012241230323

Collins SM, Mock N, Chaparro M, Rose D, Watkins B, Wutich A, Young SL, HWISE RCN. Toward a more systematic understanding of water insecurity coping strategies: Insights from eleven global sites. BMJ Global Health. 2024. https://10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013754

Rhue SJ, Torrico G, Amuse C, Collins SM, Lemaitre A, Workman CL, Rosinger AY, Pearson AL, Piperata BA, Wutich A, Brewis A, Stoler J. The effects of household water insecurity on health and wellbeing. WIREs Water. 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.166

Tallman PS, Collins SM, Salmon G, Chaparro P. Water insecurity, human biology, and physical health in the Peruvian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/ ajhb.23805

Wutich A, Rosinger A, Brewis A, Beresford M, Young SL, HWISE Research Coordination Network. Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross-cultural sites. American Anthropologist. 2021. DOI: 10.1111/aman.13682

Mao F, Miller JD, Young SL, Krause S, Hannah DM, HWISE Research Coordination Network.* Inequality of household water security: towards a Developmental Kuznets Curve. Nature Communications. 2022. 12(4525). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31867-3

Stoler J, Miller JD, Adams EA, Ahmed F, Alexander M, Asiki G, Balogun M, Boivin MJ, Brewis A, Carrillo G, Chapman K, Cole S, Collins SM…Young SL. The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Comparison scores from 27 sites in 22 countries. Journal of Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene for Development. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.108

Young SL, Miller JD, Frongillo EA, Boateng GO, Jamaluddine Z, Neilands TB, HWISE Research Collaboration Network.  Validity of a four-item household water insecurity experiences scale for assessing water issues related to health and well-being. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2021; 104(1).

Pearson AL, Mack EA, Ross A, Marcantonio R, Zimmer A, Bunting EL, Smith AC, Miller JD, Evans T, HWISE Research Coordination Network.* Interpersonal conflict over water is associated with household demographics, domains of water insecurity, and regional conflict: Evidence from nine sites across eight sub-Saharan African countries. Water. 2021; 13: 1150.

Stoler J, Miller JD, Brewis A, Freeman MC, Harris LM, Jepson W, Pearson AL, Rosinger AY, Shah SH, Staddon C, Workman C, Wutich A, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network*. Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low-and middle-income countries. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 2021.

Wutich A, Rosinger A, Brewis A, Beresford M, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. Water sharing is a consistently distressing reciprocal practice: Cross-cultural evidence. Current Anthropology. 2021.

Venkataramanan V, Geere J, Thomae B, Stoler J, Hunter P, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. In pursuit of ‘safe’ water: the burden of personal injury from water fetching in 21 low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health. 2021; 5(10).

Wies JR, Collins SM, Mays A, Young SL. “As long as we have the mine, we’ll have water”: Exploring water insecurity in Appalachia. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 2020; 44(1).

Venkataramanan V, Collins SM, Clark K, Yeam J, Nowakowski V, Young SL. Coping strategies for individual and household-level water insecurity: a systematic review. WIREs Water. 2020; 7(5).

Rosinger AY, Brewis A, Wutich A, Jepson W, Staddon C, Stoler J, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. Water borrowing is consistently practiced globally and is associated with water-related system failures across diverse environments. Global Environmental Change. 2020; 64(102148)

Schuster R, Butler M, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low- and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology. 2020. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23357

Young SL, Boateng GO, Jamaluddine Z, Miller JD, Frongillo EA, Neilands TB, Collins SM, Wutich A, Jepson W, Stoler J, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Development and validation of a tool to measure household water insecurity globally. 2019. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001750

Stoler J, Pearson AL, Staddon C, Wutich A, Mack E, Brewis A, Rosinger AY, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low- and middle-income countries. Science of the Total Environment. 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135881

Brewis A, Rosinger A, Wutich A, Adams E, Cronk L, Pearson A, Workman C, Young SL, HWISE Consortium** (HWISE Consortium, Alphabetical: Bologun M, Boivin M, Budds J, Collins SM, Gershim A, Harris L, Jepson W, Maes K, Mbullo P, Miller JD*, Staddon C, Stoler J, Tutu R, Tesfaye Y, Trowell A, Tshala-Katumbay D). Water Sharing, reciprocity, and need: A comparative study of inter-household water transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic Anthropology. 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1002/sea2.12143

Brewis A, Workman C, Wutich A, Jepson W, Young SL, HWISE Research Collaboration Network. Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low-and middle-income countries. American Journal of Human Biology. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ ajhb.23309.

Young SL, Collins SM, Boateng GB, Neilands T, Jamaluddine Z, Miller J, Brewis A, Frongillo EA, Jepson W, Melgar-Quiñonez H, Schuster RC, Stoler JB, Wutich A. Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale. BMJ Open. 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ bmjopen-2018-023558corr1.

Collins SM, Mbullo P, Miller JD, Boateng GO, Wekesa P, Onono M, Young SL. “I know how stressful it is to lack water!” Exploring the lived experiences of household water insecurity among pregnant and postpartum women in western Kenya. Global Public Health. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2018.1521861

Blum LS, Yemweni A, Trinies V, Kambere M, Tolani F, Allen JV, Handzel T, Cookson S, Ram PK.  Programmatic implications for promotion of handwashing behavior in an internally displaced persons camp in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Confl Health. 2019; 13: 54.

Boateng GO, Collins SM, Mbullo P, Wekesa P, Onono M, Neilands TB, Young SL. A Novel Household Water Insecurity Scale: Procedures and Psychometric Analyses Among Postpartum Women in Western Kenya. PLOS One. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198591

Jepson W, Wutich A, Boateng G, Collins S, Young SL. Progress in Household Water Insecurity Metrics: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach in the Social Sciences. WIREs Water. 2016. DOI: 10.1002/ wat2.1214

Krumdieck N, Collins S, Wekesa P, Mbullo P, Boateng G, Onono M, Young SL. Household water insecurity is associated with a range of negative consequences among pregnant Kenyan women of mixed HIV status. Journal of Water and Health. 2016. DOI: 10.2166/wh.2016.079.

Vujcic J, Ram PK, Blum LS. Handwashing promotion in humanitarian emergencies: strategies and challenges according to experts. J Water Sanit Hyg Dev.2015;5(4);574-585.

Phillips RM, Vujcic J, Boscoe A, Handzel T, Aninyasi M, Cookson ST, Blanton C, Blum LS, Ram PK.  Soap is not enough: handwashing practices and knowledge in refugee camps, Maban County, South Sudan.  Confl Health. 2015;9:39.