Reports and Briefs

National Efforts in Wastewater Epidemiology

Houston Wastewater Epidemiology team members collaborate with a wide network of partners that include scientists, public health officials and specialists to help:

  • Refine wastewater sampling, testing, and sequencing protocols;
  • Develop metrics and strategies that provide a full picture of infectious disease outbreaks; and
  • Share best practices and scale up wastewater monitoring to detect and contain public health threats.

Collaborative efforts have included active participation in nationwide studies and reports conducted by the:

  • Wastewater Action Group and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute (PPI) and 
  • CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System and the National Academies’ Committee on Community Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance. 

For a list of scientific manuscripts published by Houston Wastewater Epidemiology team members visit https://hou-wastewater-epi.org/science-and-innovation/manuscripts.

Reports and Briefs

The following is a list of reports and briefs co-authored by Houston Wastewater Epidemiology team members to help establish nationwide standards for wastewater-based disease surveillance. 

Transforming Disease Detection Through Wastewater SurveillanceTransforming Disease Detection Through Wastewater Surveillance

A series of reports by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute, Mathematica, and the Wastewater Action Group.

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/report/transforming-disease-detection-through-wastewater-surveillance/ 

 

 

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Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action

A consensus study report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26767/wastewater-based-disease-surveillance-for-public-health-action 
 

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