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Appointed by the National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

Appointed to the National Research Council

International Water Association: Fellow

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Advisory Board

Priorities for developing a modelling and scenario analysis framework for waterborne pathogen concentrations in rivers worldwide and consequent burden of disease

Journal of Environmental Quality - Special Section: Microbial Water Quality—Monitoring and Modeling

Postharvest reduction of coliphage MS2 from romaine lettuce during simulated commercial processing with and without a chlorine-based sanitizer.

Persistence analysis of poliovirus on three different types of fomites

Antibacterial and antiviral effectiveness of two household water treatment devices that use monobrominated hydantoinylated polystyrene

Sanitation and disease—updates are overdue

Rating impacts in a multi‐stressor world: a quantitative assessment of 50 stressors affecting the Great Lakes

Joan B. Rose holds the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University in the Depts of Fisheries & Wildlife and Plant, Soil and Microbiological Science. and  currently leads of the Global Water Pathogens Project  in partnership with UNESCO www.waterpathogens.org;  http://www.rose.canr.msu.edu/.   

She is the winner of the 2016 Stockholm Water Prize.  She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.  Dr. Rose served as the Chair of the Health Related Water Microbiology Specialist Group for the IWA from 2003 to 2010.   Elected as a Fellow to the International Water Association, 2010 and as Distinguished Fellow in 2014.    Dr. Rose has served on the Strategic Council for the IWA from 2011-2015 and is Vice Chair of the  US National Committee for the IWA.   She received the first International Water Association Hei-jin Woo Award for Achievements of Women in the Water Profession, 2008.  She has served on the Board for the IWA from 2016.

Dr. Rose earned her B.Sc. and Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Arizona, Tucson and is an international expert in water microbiology, water quality and public health safety.  She has published more than 300 manuscripts. Her work addresses the use of new molecular tools for surveying and mapping water pollution for recreational and drinking water, irrigation water, coastal and ballast waters ; assessment of innovative water treatment technology for the developed and developing world; and use of quantitative microbial risk assessment.  She is the 2001 recipient of the Clarke Water Prize and recently been awarded Honorary Citizenship in Singapore for her contributions to water quality, water education and Singapore’s water security 4-taps program.

Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Microbial Source Tracking

Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment

Public Health Microbiology

Environmental Virology

Cryptosporidium and Giardia Testing in Water

Water Treatment and Disinfection

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Testing The Waters: MSU Searches For COVID Beneath The Campus

MSU Global Water Scientist Awarded World's Top Water Prize

MSU Professor Named Honorary Citizen of Singapore

Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Dept of Fisheries and Wildlife

2016  Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, Michigan State University Professor Joan Rose discusses  her award and the need for clean water around the globe.

2016  Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Advancing Next Generation Genomic Tools and Big Data Science for the Discovery of the Water Virome

May 7th, 2014

Dr. Joan B. Rose
Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Michigan State University

2014 Water Microbiology Conference - Keynote Address - Dr. Joan B. Rose

2016 Stockholm Water Prize Symposium: Pollution or Prosperity? | Quality of life Joan B Rose, 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Quality of life | Joan B Rose, 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

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