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About the Author: William R. Jobin Sc.D.

In 1961 William Jobin graduated in Civil Engineering from MIT and began his career working in tropical disease control in Puerto Rico with the Centers for Disease Control of the US Public Health Service. He then studied for his doctorate at the Harvard School of Public Health. For a few years he ran the river survey program for the state of Massachusetts, returning to Puerto Rico in 1975. In 1979 he joined the World Health Organization in Sudan, where he and his family lived for 5 years in the midst of the immense Gezira Irrigation System. In Sudan the Jobins experienced transmission of malaria and other tropical diseases, first hand.

Jobin helped start the $150 million Blue Nile Health Project in the large irrigated systems of central Sudan, aimed at controlling malaria and other parasitic diseases. In 1984 he formed BLUE NILE ASSOCIATES, to consult globally on prevention and control of malaria and other tropical diseases, based on his experiences in Puerto Rico (1,2,3), and in Sudan with the Blue Nile Health Project (4,5). In his career Jobin has published about 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, the first one related to design of irrigation canals to prevent infestation with snails that transmit parasitic schistosomes (6). In addition to English, he speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese and rudimentary Arabic.

Much of Jobin’s work with Blue Nile Associates is on malaria in Africa, and on assessing the potential health impacts of large dams and oil projects. He has worked in 17 African countries as well as many places in Arabia, Asia and the Americas. His reports include several on the Jubba River Dam of Somalia (foto right), on the 4 billion dollar Exxon oil project in Chad and Cameroon (7) and on the first US Presidential Malaria Initiative in Angola (8) doi:10.2471/BLT.08.052514. Unique aspects of these experiences are reported in his Blue Nile Monographs, especially the first one “A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa.”


	Then in 1996 he formed Colorado Valley Ecologists, working with community, state, and federal groups to study and protect the water quality of the Beautiful Rivers of the Rocky Mountains. At the same time he is summarizing his collected data on the Coastal Rivers of New England. The River Monographs are for use in schools and colleges.

More recently Jobin formed Boston Harbor Publishers to make his MONOGRAPHS on malaria and water quality of rivers available. He is also publishing his collected Musings on intriguing tropical countries he has worked in, now crucial sites for Al Qaeda and other radical groups. Publishing offices are in Massachusetts and Colorado, which the nomadic Jobins visit in rotation, to spend time with their children and grand-children. William Jobin is married to Judith Estes Jobin.

If you have technical questions for Jobin, please email him at

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SELECTED REFERENCES

1. Schistosomiasis control in Puerto Rico 1979, Negron-Aponte and Jobin, American J of Trop Med and Hygiene, v28 n3 pp515-525.
2. Sugar and snails: the ecology of bilharziasis related to agriculture in Puerto Rico 1980, Jobin, American J of Trop Med and Hygiene, v29 n1 pp86-94.
3. Critical water velocity for snail habitats in canals 1984, Jobin et al, J of Environmental Engineering, American Soc of Civil Engs, v110 n1 Feb pp279-282.
4. Protection of sudanese irrigation workers from schistosomiasis 1985, Tameim et al, J Trop Med and Hygiene v88 n2 pp125-130.
5. Intensification of irrigated agriculture in the Sudan and transmission of malaria and bilharzia 1987, Abdu et al, Bull Int Comm on Irrigation and Drainage v36 n2 pp24-34
6. Ecological design of irrigation canals for snail control 1964, Jobin and Ippen, Science v145 n3638 pp1324-1326.
7. Health and equity impacts of a large oil project in Africa 2003, Jobin, Bull WHO v81 n6 pp420-426.
8. Difficulties in organizing first indoor spray programme against malaria in Angola under the President’s Malaria Initiative 2009, Somandjinga, Lluberas and Jobin, Bull WHO v87 n11 pp871-874.
Note: Please Google this article at doi:10.2471/BLT.08.052514.


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