Charlotte D. ​Smith, PhD

Continuing Lecturer, Environmental Health Sciences
  • Visiting Professor, ITESO

Charlotte D. Smith is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and her research is focused on the access to safe water as a human right.
Address: University Hall #417P
Berkeley, CA 94720
Available for Advising By Appointment Only

Biography

Charlotte D. Smith is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Her research interests include the microbial ecology and control of waterborne pathogens, and using geospatial statistics to explore the pathway from environmental exposures, including contaminated water, to acute and chronic diseases (e.g., diarrheal and/or kidney disease). Current community-based participatory research in Guadalajara focuses on access to water as a human right under UN Resolution 64-292. Dr. Smith teaches Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences, Drinking Water and Health, and Applied GIS for Public Health. She is the faculty sponsor for the DeCal, Partners in Health and supervises graduate and undergraduate research.

Dr. Smith holds a BS in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Community Health from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas, GIS Latin America, and the Organization of American States – Pan American Institute for Geography and History. She received the Jorge Matute Remus Award in 2019 and the Zak Sabry Mentorship Award in 2016.

Research Interests

  • Impact assessment and evaluation of water systems and public health in urban and rural Mexican communities
  • Central American communities
  • Microbial ecology of waterborne pathogens
  • Bacterial endosymbionts of free-living protozoa

Education

  • PhD – Environmental Health Science
    University of California, Berkeley
  • MA – Community Health
    City University of New York
  • BS – Microbiology
    University of Michigan

Publications

Courses Taught

    • Summer Session C | PHN177
    • Applied GIS for Public Health
    • SP2 OOMPH | PHW277
    • Applied GIS for Public Health Practice
    • Spring | PH177A
    • Public Health Maps and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity
    • Spring | PH277A
    • Public Health Maps and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity
    • Fall at ITESO – Guadalajara, Mexico
    • GIS Applications in Environmental Health

Affiliations

  • United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas
  • Organization of American States – Pan American Institute of Geography and History
  • Visiting Professor – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Fall Semesters)