Mariam Alkattan

Experience

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  Engineers Without Borders USA

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Project Manager

  Led 15 engineering students in building a 10,000L rainwater catchment system at a primary school in rural Kenya, providing water for a community of 3,000 residents.

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  Peace Corps

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

  Public Health Volunteer, WaSH/Child and Maternal Health

  Child and maternal health consultations and health interventions for a 30,000-person indigenous community in Guinea, West Africa. Previously evacuated from a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene position in Mali, West Africa.

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  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2021

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Water quality in drinking water distribution systems in low- and middle-income countries.

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  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  Environmental Microbiologist - Ending Cholera

  Create trainings, protocols, and manuals to aid in the building of environmental microbiology laboratory capacity in global regions with a high burden of diarrheal disease.

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  The Fulbright Program

  Jan 2022 - Jan 2023

  Fulbright Scholar, India

  Design and conduct a field study to develop and verify methods to identify antimicrobial resistant pathogens in surface water environments in urban India.

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  Harvard Medical School

  Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

  Project Coordinator

  Coordinate project objectives, communications, planning, and documentation for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) effort in the HIDIVE Lab at Harvard Medical School.