The University of Sheffield
Going Underground: Health Risks from Pathogens in the Soil-Water Environment

Core Working Group

Name Affiliation Role
Steve Banwart University of Sheffield (C-MI) Principal Investigator
Louise Heathwaite Lancaster University (CSWM) Co-Investigator
Charles Godfray University of Oxford Independent Chair
Jonathan Bridge University of Sheffield (GPRG) Group Co-ordinator
David Oliver Lancaster University (CSWM) Agricultural/Soil Sciences
Roger Pickup Lancaster University Environmental Microbiology
Jonathan Wastling University of Liverpool (NCZR) Infectious Disease and Zoonotic Pathogens
Jonathan Porter Environment Agency (NLS, Starcross) Environmental Monitoring
Ravi Maheswaran University of Sheffield (ScHARR) Medicine and Public Health
David Kay University of Wales Abersytwyth (CREH) Catchment Scale Risk Assessment
David Chadwick IGER Farm Wastes Management
Dan McGonigle Defra Government Policy
Gordon Nichols Health Protection Agency Human Health and Infectious Diseases

Abbreviations

C-MI - Cell-Mineral Interface Programme; GPRG – Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group; CSWM – Centre for Sustainable Water Management; NLS - National Laboratories Service; IGER – Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research; CREH – Centre for Research into Environment and Health; CEH – Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; NCZR – National Centre for Zoonoses Research; ScHARR - School of Health and Related Research.

Additional workshop attendees

Andy Vinten (Macaulay Institute)
Alan Godfree (United Utilities)
Jim Wharfe (Environment Agency)
Chris Sherlock (Lancaster University)
Clive Edwards (University of Liverpool)
Chris Hodgson (IGER)
Paul Scholefield (CEH Lancaster)
Glenn Rhodes (CEH Lancaster)
Trevor Page (Lancaster University)
Rob Fish (Exeter University)
Ernie Gould (CEH Oxford)