Prof. Maria Carnovale, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Objectives:

• Understand how smart sanitation technology, or SST, applies digital technologies to the sanitation industry.
• Learn how SST can support epidemiological analysis and contribute to the vision of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• Identify the risks of SST, such as continuous health surveillance, privacy, and generating stigma from data inference.
• Explore how a policy framework based on basic and uncontroversial ethical principles can ease the use of SST for public health purposes and mitigate the risks it poses.