People

David M. Gute
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education

Honors and Awards

Research Interests

Dr. Gute's research interests are found at the intersection of public health and engineering. Current projects span the identification and control of occupational health risks among immigrant populations in Somerville, Mass. to the primary prevention of urinary schistosomiasis in the eastern region of Ghana.

	By blending epidemiology and engineering, David Gute, together with Associate Professor John Durant, is working to solve public health problems at home and around the world. Read about the scope of Gute's research in the Tufts home page feature: Going Upstream to the Problem
	Applying engineering principles to primary disease prevention bolsters public health efforts. Read more about Gute's research on the primary prevention of urinary schistosomiasis in the eastern region of Ghana: Re-engineering A River
	With a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH), Gute has helped develop community-based initiatives such as Vida Verde Brazilian Women's Co-Op, which provides green housecleaning products and encourages healthy work practices among its members who are primarily Brazilian immigrant housecleaners in Somerville, Mass. Read more about the Immigrant Occupational Health Project. Hear more about VidaVerde on NPR's Living on Earth radio or read about the project in the American Journal of Public Health. Read more about Gute's environmental and social justice efforts in the Tisch College newsletter.

Short Bio

David M. Gute is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine as well as at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. He directs a M.S./Ph.D. program in Environmental Health and has served as the Academic Director of the Tufts in Talloires program located in the Haute Savoie, France.

Prior to joining the Tufts faculty Dr. Gute served as an Assistant Commissioner responsible for personal and environmental disease risk factor reductions with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and as an Epidemiologist with the Rhode Island Department of Health. He has served as a consultant for a number of organizations including the World Health Organization and AcademyHealth. He is interested and committed to offering environmental and public health training in a variety of settings including international venues, having lead and co-directed training programs in Brazil and the Philippines. Dr. Gute received his Ph.D. and M.P.H. from Yale University.  In 2013, he was named a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology.

Advising

Dr. Gute serves as the advisor to many talented doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students:

Karen Kosinski is a doctoral candidate in the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering program. She was recently named a 2010 DOW Sustainability Innovation winner and received a 2011 Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service. Kosinski received the award for her research in the evaluation of a novel primary prevention technique for the control of urinary schistosomiasis in Adasawase, a rural town in Ghana. Her doctoral committee is chaired by David Gute, and includes Professors John Durant (CEE), Jeanine Plummer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Miguel Stadecker, Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, and Kwabena M. Bosompem, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Legon, GHANA.

Recent Student Awards

Courses

Professional Positions

Doctoral Committees Chaired

Enander, Richard; Lead particulate and methylene chloride risks in automotive refinishing; completed May, 2001. Richard is a Senior Scientist at the State of Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.

Rioux, Christine L.; Residential traffic exposure, inflammation and blood pressure in older adults in greater Boston, Massachusetts; completed in May, 2009. Christine is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University.

Kosinski, Karen; Evaluation of a Novel Primary Prevention Technique for the Control of Urogenital Schistosomiasis: A Pilot Intervention in Adasawase, Ghana; completed in August, 2011. Karen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University.

Panikkar, Bindu; Migration, Work, Health, and Justice: Occupational Safety and Health Among Immigrant Workers in Somerville, Massachusetts; completed in November, 2011. Bindu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Health in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Northeastern University.