Women Plus Water Conversation: Water + Disasters
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Women Plus Water Conversations 2026
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When:
Time: 12:30–1:30 pm
Location: Online (Zoom)
Women Plus Water Conversations
Water + Disasters
Thursday, April 23, 2026
12:30-1:30 pm CST
Online (Zoom)
Live French interpretation will be available during the event.
Host
- Jacob Alhassan
Assistant Prof. Community Health and Epidemiology
College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
Guests
- Anaís Roque
John Hope Franklin Assistant Prof. of Environmental Social Sciences
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
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Jacob Alhassan
Jacob Alhassan is currently an assistant professor in community health and epidemiology. He is also academic co-lead for University of Saskatchewan’s global health certificate. He is trained in health administration, public policy & global health, African studies and population health from the universities of Ghana (Ghana), Durham (UK), Oxford (UK) and Saskatchewan (Canada). He is an activist-scholar with a particular interest in how politics influence educational and health inequalities. He is guided by an anti-racist and anti-colonial praxis in his teaching, research and learning and loves music, poetry and cooking. He is also the Founder and Board Chair of Ad Astra Foundation Ghana and through this work engages local communities and provides access to reading materials to 200 children in rural northern Ghana.
Anaís Roque
Dr. Anaís Delilah Roque Antonetty (she/her/ella) is an environmental social scientist and anthropologist who studies resource insecurity and health in the Anthropocene. Her research examines how households and communities experience and respond to food, energy, and water insecurity under everyday conditions and during disasters, using mixed methods, including ethnography, participatory research, and surveys.