Episode 42 - Sanitation, Toilets & Menstruation with Dr Dani Barrington

Welcome to another episode of the Meaning of Health. This week we are joined by Dr Dani Barrington from the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia. Dani started her academic career in Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Systems Engineering before her work in the developing world led her to Public Health. Dani has worked in several countries across the globe, including in Bangladesh and Africa, and spent time as a Visiting Lecturer at Leeds University in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Dani's work involves both qualitative and quantitative methods and looks broadly at Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH) with a particular focus on toilets and menstruation. We have a frank discussion with Dani about some of the challenges that a lot of the world's population faces in these areas, and discuss what can be and is being done to try and improve things around the world. Another area that Dani is passionate about is promoting more transparency about failures in the WASH sector, arguing that not acknowledging WASH intervention failures can lead to the continuing use of ineffective interventions, in turn wasting valuable resources. If you would like to read more about Dani and some of her work you can here: UWA Profile: https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/dani-barrington WASH Failures: https://wash.leeds.ac.uk/what-the-f-how-we-failed-to-publish-a-journal-special-issue-on-failures/ WASH Failures Twitter: https://twitter.com/FSM_Fail Review of menstrual experiences: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tajkp/ As always, if you want to get in touch with the podcast, you can contact us at: meaningofhealth@outlook.com or via twitter @healthmeanswhat