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

Education
1981 Ph.D., Yale University, Chronic Disease Epidemiology. Dissertation: "Occupational and Industrial Mortality in Rhode Island (1968-1972)"
1976 M.P.H, Yale University, Concentration: Health Services Administration. Master's Essay: "Mortality from Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease in Maine (1968-1972)"
1973 B.A., Connecticut College. Major: European History

Honors and Awards
2009-2010 Multicultural Service Award given by the Tufts AS&E
Equal Educational Opportunity Committee
2009-2010 International Relations Outstanding Faculty Service Award
2009 "Seeds of Our Green Life" award, Vida Verde Co-Operative
2005-2007 Faculty Fellow-Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
2002 Recipient of a USEPA New England’s Environmental Merit Award
1986-1989 Spring Semester Excellence in Teaching Award. Boston University School of Public Health

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.

Advising
Dr. Gute serves as the advisor to many talented doctoral and master's 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.

Courses
Fall
CEE-137 Public Health
CEE-241 Biology of Water and Health (cross listed as MPH-241)
Spring
ES-27 Environmental Health and Safety
CEE-158 Occupational and Environmental Health
(cross listed as MPH-204, summer term at TUSM)
MPH 240 Environmental Epidemiology (offered in alternate years)
Summer
MPH-204 Occupational and Environmental Health: Focus on the Built Environment (Tufts University School of Medicine)
CEE-194 The Emerging Global Health Crisis: Epidemics, the Environment, and Public Policy - taught exclusively at the Tufts European Center - Talloires, France (offered in Summer 2010)

Professional Positions
2002-2007 Academic Director, Tufts in Talloires Program
2002-present Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
1994-present Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
1988-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University
1988-present Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health-Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine
1987-1988 Part-time Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Tufts University
1985-1992 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Boston University
1984-1988 Adjunct Lecturer of Biostatistics/Epidemiology, Division of Public Health, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1982-1983 Visiting Research Associate-Occupational Health Program, Harvard School of Public Health

 

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