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Robert Aunger@lshtm ac uk Attrib: Credit: Aunger, 2020 Val Curtis served as the director of the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where she built a reputation as a world class researcher and passionate advocate for safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), leading a large and dynamic group of researchers In the absence of a vaccine, countries are looking to handwashing, and other behaviours such as wearing masks and physical distancing, to reduce the transmission of a novel disease that is threatening health systems and economies around the world Valerie A Curtis (b 1958;BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering, Leeds University, 1980;MSc Community Health in Developing Countries, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1988;PhD in Anthropology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands, 1998), died from squamous vaginal cancer on 19 October 2020 1 Curtis V “I\'m one of the thousands of extra cancer deaths we\'ll see this year ”
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