About Me

Drew Capone PhD is a post-doc studying sanitation in low-income settings. After a brief stint in cosmetics manufacturing, Drew taught high school math and chemistry with the US Peace Corps in rural Mozambique. After returning to the US, Drew joined the Brown Water Group to study fecal sludge management in Maputo, Mozambique and worked on the Maputo Sanitation (MapSan) trial to assess the use of environmental matrices for public health surveillance and health impact assessment, receiving his PhD in 2020. Drew is also interested in communities on the margins of US society that experience poor sanitation. He studies open defecation in US cities by people experiencing homelessness and soil-transmitted helminth infections (intestinal worms) among children in rural Alabama. Drew is currently funded by a NIH T32 Training Grant.