Jo Barnes

• Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Stellenbosch University

Dr Barnes is still involved in research into the health impact and further consequences of pollution from failing sanitation in urban areas and pollution reaching rivers arising from using the water for drinking and irrigation of edible crops and livestock. The most recent study she participated in was about desalination and seawater quality at Green Point and dealt with the effects of marine sewage outfalls. She also recently participated in the compilation of a greywater reuse guide that is still to be published by the Water Research Commission. She provided the health chapter for that publication.

She has long experience in water monitoring of the Berg and Eerste Rivers. She is a member of various water and conservation related bodies. Under her leadership her students investigated the dwellings and health status of inhabitants of low-cost housing schemes in the City and the impact of lack of sanitation on the urban environment. Other studies investigated the health status of old age pensioners in low income areas and the oral health status of children under 5 years in the Cape metropolitan area, safety of street-vended foods, ocean pollution due to sewage discharge into the sea, beach pollution, antibiotic resistance in the environment, stress of carers of visually impaired children.

She is an active member of the Disaster Management Forum of the Western Cape. She contributed health chapters for the disaster plans written for the district municipalities of West Coast, Cape Winelands, Uthungulu, Amajuba and the provincial disaster plan for Limpopo.

• –present Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Stellenbosch University

• 2003 Stellenbosch University, PhD Community Health

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