ara Gabrielsson is an Associate senior lecturer in Sustainability science at Lund University. Sara’s primary research focus is on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and sustainable development in Africa. Sara’s vision is to facilitate the interaction between academia and sanitation practitioners to enable the spread of sustainable WASH from theory to action.

Sara is a teacher and thesis supervisor in both LUMES – Lund University Master’s Program in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science and LUMID - Lund University Master's in International Development and Management. 

In the LUMES programme she convene the LUMES elective course on Sustainability and Global Health. The course provides global perspectives and local examples of the connections between development, environment and health by highlighting four key emerging and persistent global health challenges;

• the unavoidable health impacts of climate change
• the prevailing sanitation crises
• the global dietary paradox
• the health externalities of global manufacturing and use of electronics