Houston Wastewater Epidemiology is continuously monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern, RSV, and influenza A and B. Learn about our activities and education outreach in the news stories listed on this page.

Houston’s Wastewater Monitoring Dashboard shows updates, expanded school reports Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023
New features help Houstonians understand the prevalence of COVID-19, influenza at the community level

Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023
A Consensus Study Report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Stadler receives NSF CAREER Award Monday, Jan. 23, 2023
With grant, Rice engineer intends to harness microbiomes to improve wastewater treatment processes.

TMC honors efforts to establish wastewater surveillance as a routine public health metric Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022
The Houston Wastewater Epidemiology team will deliver an honorary lecture at the 6th Annual TMC Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship Conference.