Wastewater-based epidemiology at the frontier of global public health

Name: Wastewater-based epidemiology at the frontier of global public health
Brand: IWA Publishing

IWA Publishing

Wastewater-based epidemiology at the frontier of global public healthAuthor(s): Matthew J. Wade, Joshua T. Bunce, Susan Petterson, Christobel Ferguson, Nohelia Castro del Campo, Erica Gaddis, Panagiotis Karanis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: IWA Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: IWA Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781789064322, 978-1789064322\nSynopsis\nThe COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the necessity for highly interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder collaboration to enable effective public health practice and response. The application of wastewater monitoring to support the pandemic response was demonstrated quickly, leveraging existing scientific and engineering capability to develop rapidly methods that enabled scaling of monitoring programmes across the globe. The science and practice of wastewater monitoring, or wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) as it is often termed in the context of surveillance, for public health threats is well-documented. As a highly socialised tool, national, reg.