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Dr. Asli Aslan is the Founding Director of the Institute for Water and Health (IWH) and a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Georgia Southern University, where she builds interdisciplinary research enterprises at the intersection of water quality, public health, and environmental systems. Since founding IWH in 2022, she has secured and managed $6.4 million in active research funding, including over $2 million in bipartisan congressional appropriations for her Safe Water Together initiative, and grown the institute into three integrated units spanning an Environmental Research and Services Laboratory (ERSL), a Hydrological Modeling and Risk Assessment (HYDRA) unit, and a water sciences education unit (Water Academy), serving K-16 schools, environmental professionals, and public. She has expanded IWH's network to more than 65 partners across government, industry, and academia, established research affiliations with 35 faculty across four universities, and launched international collaborations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Turkiye, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil.
Dr. Aslan's research career spans more than two decades, from postdoctoral and research faculty positions at Michigan State University to founding an international consortium of 41 laboratories across 28 countries to standardize water microbiology methods. She has authored 38 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited over 1,500 times, and her scholarship on microbial water quality, source tracking, and rapid diagnostics has directly informed drinking water policy as a subcommittee member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Aslan earned her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography and Marine Biology from Istanbul University's Institute for Marine Sciences and Management. A co-founder and past chair of the American Public Health Association's Water and Health Committee, she remains an active voice in national and international water-health policy, mentoring the next generation of researchers while translating scientific vision into lasting institutional capacity. Her team's current work was recognized with a nationally recognized social impact award from Public-Private Partnership (P3) in 2025.
Discipline: Environmental Health Sciences
Teaching Interests: Water Quality and Health; Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene; Global Environmental Health
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Education/Academic qualification
Water Sciences, Post-Doc
Aug 1 2008 → Jul 31 2011
Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography and Marine Biology, Istanbul University
Aug 1 2002 → Apr 15 2008
M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography and Marine Biology, Istanbul University
Jan 1 2000 → Jul 31 2002
B.Sc. in Biology, Istanbul University
… → 1999
Disciplines
- Life Sciences
- Education
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Engineering
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Research Interests
- Water Sciences
- Environmental Education
- Community Health
- Emergency Preperadness
- Emerging contaminants
- Environmental Public Health
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 14 Life Below Water -
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SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals
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RaMP: Mentoring and Research Opportunities for Careers in Coastal Science (MROC2S)
Carroll, J. M. (CoPI), Aslan, A. (PI), Huffling, L. D. (CoPI) & Carroll, J. M. (CoPI)
09/1/23 → 08/31/27
Project: Research
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RaMP: Mentoring and Research Opportunities for Careers in Coastal Science
Aslan, A. (PI)
01/1/23 → 01/1/27
Project: Research
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What’s in Your Water: The State of Drinking Water Quality in Evans County
Aslan, A. (PI)
01/1/16 → …
Project: Research
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Portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry as a rapid and complementary approach for fecal pollution assessment in water
Aslan, A., Silva, S. H. G., Ribeiro, B. T., Obi, V., da Costa, M. V., Pierangeli, L. M. P., Santos, T. A., de Freitas, D. M. A., Duarte, M. H., de Pádua, E. J., Carvalho, G. S., Carneiro, M. A. C., Curi, N. & Weindorf, D., Jan 1 2026, In: Water Research X. 30, 100513.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The thirsty impact: How droughts threaten global water quality and human health
Aslan, A., Assefa Adem, A. & Veettil, A. V., Jan 1 2026, Global Drought and Sustainability. Elsevier, p. 263-278 16 p.Research output: Contribution to book or proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Advancing Circular Bioeconomy through a Systems-Level Assessment of Food Waste and Industrial Sludge Codigestion
Uddin, M. N., Hartog, C., Murray, E., Loveless, J. B., Roberson, L., Aslan, A., Cubas, F. & Rowles, L. S., Sep 17 2025, In: ACS Environmental Au. 5, 5, p. 479-489 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Learning from One Another: Growing Critical Friendships Across Disciplines to Develop Our Professional Identities as Science Teacher Educators
Huffling, L., Scott, H., Aslan, A., Moore, K., Simmons, M. & Sumner, N., Jan 1 2025, Professional Learning Journeys of Teacher Educators. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., p. 177-188 12 p.Research output: Contribution to book or proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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A quasi-experimental study assessing the effectiveness of a community-based egg intervention in the nutritional and health status of young children from rural Honduras
Palacios, A. M., Keko, M., Rochani, H., Nazaruk, D., Aslan, A., Tome, J., Mayo-Gamble, T., Ramos, G. & Manship, L., Nov 5 2024, In: PLoS ONE. 19, 11, e0312825.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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