Tsion Syoum

The Role of Data in Strengthening WASH Service Delivery in Schools

Tsion is a DPhil candidate at the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE). Her research examines how school-based drinking water interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa are designed, monitored, and evaluated to promote sustainable outcomes. She is also a Partnership Manager for the REACH program and a member of Reuben College.

Before her DPhil, Tsion completed her MSc also at Oxford in SoGE where she studied Environmental Change and Management. Her dissertation focused on how decades of disinvestment heightened vulnerability to the heat island effect and shaped perceptions of green infrastructure in Harlem, New York City. Before this, she also received a Fulbright Student Research Award in Kampala, Uganda, where she investigated the social impacts of hydroclimatic disasters in the Lake Victoria Basin. 

Tsion also spent two years at the corporate law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, working in both Business Development and as a Paralegal in the Capital Markets and Intellectual Property groups.

In addition to the MSc, Tsion holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies (with a focus on water policy) from Haverford College. 

Read Tsion's latest blog about her academic journey.