Dr Om Prasad Gautam

Behaviour Change Scientist, Public Health and WASH Expert Hygiene Lead, WaterAid UK

Dr Om Prasad Gautam is a behaviour change scientist, public health and WASH expert with more than 23 years of work and research experiences in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), health, behaviour change, child health, immunization, food safety, diseases surveillance and HIV/AIDS programme. Dr Om holds PhD from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK and Two Master’s Degrees, one in Public Health and another in Social Sciences. Dr Om currently works at WaterAid UK as a Hygiene Lead (global lead on hygiene behaviour change) responsible to lead hygiene programme across Asia and Africa. Dr Om is passionate about the role that sustainable behaviour change programme play through WASH and health programme in human development and brings his skills to the Health and WASH sector to improve the health, hygiene and wellbeing of the poorest and vulnerable groups in low and middle-income countries.