Promotion of effective sanitation and hygiene practice

This evidence brief provides an overview of WASH interventions in disease outbreak response – an evidence synthesis published in February 2017 by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme and carried out by a team from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Tufts University. It summarizes key findings in response to four research questions, indicates the country contexts from which evidence is drawn, outlines the methodology, highlights research gaps and provides references to the original literature.