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Manufacturing News Center - Operations firm to assist with most critical health challenges facing our global population. Global efforts will improve public health in developing countries.

November 3, 2004-Jobwerx News-The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected a CDM-led team to be one of three consortia to carry out projects under the 5-year, $250 million environmental health indefinite quantity contract, a far-reaching technical support contract to alleviate many of the most critical health challenges facing today's global population.

The program supports USAID's continued successful work in 12 key areas of environmental health, with the overall objective of reducing childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries by reducing exposure to agents of disease and to environmental hazards that exacerbate disease. Priority areas include water supply and sanitation; solid waste management; vector control; infection control, including medical waste management and improved hygiene in health facilities; integrated programming of population-health-environment activities in areas of sensitive biodiversity; and indoor air pollution.

Throughout the program, CDM and its partners will apply the technical and program management expertise garnered during the firm's long history implementing large-scale, flagship projects for USAID, including award-winning programs such as the 15-year Water and Sanitation for Health Project and the decade-long Environmental Health Project, completed this year.

"CDM is honored once again to have the opportunity to work with USAID to support its long-term environmental health initiatives. This award continues a 25-year tradition of collaborating with USAID on projects that contribute significantly to improving human health and addressing environmental health on a global scale," says J. Ellis Turner, CDM senior vice president.

CDM is a global, full-service consulting, engineering, construction, and operations firm, employing 3,600 worldwide, helping public and private clients improve the environment and infrastructure.

CDM was founded as a partnership in 1947 by Thomas R. Camp, Herman G. Dresser, and Jack E. McKee. Dr. Camp headed the department of sanitary engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before leaving the university to set up a consulting practice. Dedicated to public health protection, he pioneered water treatment technologies such as dual-media filters and direct filtration for public water supplies. While Dr. Camp set the standard of technical excellence for CDM, Mr. Dresser established the tone and business practices of the firm, emphasizing the importance of employee development across all disciplines. Dr. McKee made professional contributions in water quality protection, groundwater recharge, and engineering education. He left the firm in 1949 to become a professor at the California Institute of Technology, later rejoining CDM on a part-time basis.

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