Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security

Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace is the Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security and faculty member in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Previously positions include Senior Research Fellow for UNU Institute for Water, Environment, and Health and the Public Health Agency of Canada. She founded the Women Plus Water community and is the inaugural Chair of Cansu Global's Science, Innovation, Technology, and Education (SITE) initiative. In 2023 she was recognized as a Water Shero by the Red Dot Foundation. Her research utilises a coupled systems approach to water-related human health in rural, remote, and marginalised communities. Her work integrates university and community, different knowledge systems, and research, practice, and teaching. Coupling environmental and social systems provides a comprehensive understanding of socio-environmental determinants of health and how inequities and intersectionality along with knowledge, attitudes, and practices affect health and wellbeing. These are critical considerations in building climate resilience and more equitable and sustainable water resources management approaches.