Rasha Maal-Bared

Dr. Maal-Bared is the principal environmental microbiologist at the CDM Smith Bellevue Research and Testing Laboratories. Before that, she was the wastewater treatment specialist and senior microbiologist at EPCOR Water for ten years, where she supported plant monitoring, operations and process optimization in 15 communities across western Canada. She completed her PhD in Environmental Microbiology at the University of British Columbia and her MSc degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health and Dalhousie University. She is the chair of the WEF Waterborne Infectious Disease Outbreak Control Focus Group, which received the WEF 2020 Water Heroes award for their work on COVID-19, the vice chair of the Disinfection and Public Health Community and the Chair of the WEF Community Leadership Council. She also received the 2020 Empowering Women in Industry “Leadership in STEM/STEAM” award. She lives in beautiful Victoria (British Columbia).