Two Monash Malaysia professors are part of global slum revitalisation project awarded AUD $14 million grant by Wellcome Trust (UK).

Two Monash Malaysia professors - Daniel Reidpath and Pascale Allotey - are part of an international research consortium which was awarded an AUD $14 million grant. Being one of only four awarded recipients from over 600 applications worldwide, the Wellcome Trust (UK) awarded the prestigious grant to the Monash University-led team for a research project that will potentially improve the lives of more than a billion people living in urban slums globally. Part of the Wellcome Trust’s ‘Our Planet Our Health’ funding program, Monash will use the grant for a five-year research project that will significantly advance human health and wellbeing in slums – or informal settlements – by transforming water infrastructure, water management and sanitation practices.  Informal settlements are found mostly in rapidly growing urban areas of low to middle-income countries. They have poor health and well-being, inextricably linked to environmental exposure to pathogens, pollutants, and disease vectors in water, food, air and soil.