Mr. Adrianus Tvlugman
Senior Advisor, Water Sanitation, Environmental Health, PAHO, WHO
Adrianus (Ton) Vlugman has an MSc. in Environmental Health Engineering from the Technical University of Delft in 1984 and is working for the Pan American/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) since 1987, serving CARICOM countries and presently working as Senior Advisor, Water Sanitation and Environmental Health for the Caribbean region.
Eng. Vlugman has been living and working in the Caribbean for half his life and has been involved in many projects of varying aspects of environmental determinants of health, including: groundwater quality monitoring program in Barbados; operational status of wastewater treatment plants in 14 Caricom countries; solid waste management in many Caribbean countries; sick building syndrome, impacts from small scale gold mining in Suriname; health promoting schools projects in Bahamas and Suriname and other community based projects ; impregnated bed netting project (malaria project with support from Rotary); SMART Hospital Assessor; integration of rainwater harvesting in water supply systems at health care facilities. He is now focusing on strengthening management of environmental determinants of health in national adaptation planning to impacts of climate change.
Eng. Vlugman is member of the PAHO’s “Post Disaster Rapid Assessment and Response Team” and was involved in many emergency damage and needs assessments and relief operations since 1988. Based on above projects Mr. Vlugman wrote several technical papers on the risk to contamination of groundwater and the operational status of wastewater treatment plants. He is the author of the PAHO/CEHI publication: Operational Status of Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Caribbean (1992) and the WHO technical publication “Drinkingwater in Emergency Situations (1998)”. His latest publication is entitled “A handbook for safe and healthy schools.”
Eng. Vlugman has been living and working in the Caribbean for half his life and has been involved in many projects of varying aspects of environmental determinants of health, including: groundwater quality monitoring program in Barbados; operational status of wastewater treatment plants in 14 Caricom countries; solid waste management in many Caribbean countries; sick building syndrome, impacts from small scale gold mining in Suriname; health promoting schools projects in Bahamas and Suriname and other community based projects ; impregnated bed netting project (malaria project with support from Rotary); SMART Hospital Assessor; integration of rainwater harvesting in water supply systems at health care facilities. He is now focusing on strengthening management of environmental determinants of health in national adaptation planning to impacts of climate change.
Eng. Vlugman is member of the PAHO’s “Post Disaster Rapid Assessment and Response Team” and was involved in many emergency damage and needs assessments and relief operations since 1988. Based on above projects Mr. Vlugman wrote several technical papers on the risk to contamination of groundwater and the operational status of wastewater treatment plants. He is the author of the PAHO/CEHI publication: Operational Status of Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Caribbean (1992) and the WHO technical publication “Drinkingwater in Emergency Situations (1998)”. His latest publication is entitled “A handbook for safe and healthy schools.”