Hosted by Brown University School of Public Health
An important innovation that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic was the broader adoption of wastewater environmental surveillance (WES) as an important tool to supplement traditional surveillance approaches. Some predict that WES can be an all-encompassing method to detect outbreaks early, while others are concerned that the data are too non-specific and noisy to be actionable. Are either of these notions correct?
In this Pandemic Center webinar, we will discuss the current state of the field, utility and past use cases, and the potential of WES as an early warning system for infectious disease transmission, from endemic conditions like flu and COVID to reemerging pathogens like measles to possible future emerging pandemic threats. Please join us for this discussion with our expert panelists from academic, governmental, and private sectors for this discussion of WES in a national and international context.
Moderator: Jennifer Nuzzo, Director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health
Speakers: Nicole Fehrenbach, Branch Chief for Rapid Response Research & Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Abigail Paulos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health;