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Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Part-Time Lecturer
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Staff |
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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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
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| 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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