TY - JOUR
T1 - Public Health Interventions Guided by Houston’s Wastewater Surveillance Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Hopkins, Loren
AU - Ensor, Katherine B.
AU - Stadler, Lauren
AU - Johnson, Catherine D.
AU - Schneider, Rebecca
AU - Domakonda, Kaavya
AU - McCarthy, James J.
AU - Septimus, Edward J.
AU - Persse, David
AU - Williams, Stephen L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the CDC Foundation (project no. 1085.46) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ELC-ED grant no. 6NU50CK000557-01-05 and ELC-CORE grant no. NU50CK000557).
Funding Information:
The authors thank the following groups and professionals for their contributions to this project: Stadler Lab at Rice University; Houston Health Department (HHD) Bureau of Laboratory Services; Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University; TAILOR at Baylor College of Medicine; Houston Public Works; Deborah Banerjee, PhD (HHD); Coleen Boyle, PhD, MS Hyg, CDC Foundation; Kelsey Caton, MPH; Kendra Davis, MPH; Tanveer Farhad, MS; Juan Gonzalez, AA; Judy Harris, MBA; Courtney Hundley, MPH; Douglas Jennings, BS; Anthony Mulenga, MS; Jeremy Rangel, BS; Komal Sheth, MPH; Martha Stancil, MBA, RN, CNE-BCr; and Latreka Staten, MPH, MBA (HHD). The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the CDC Foundation (project no. 1085.46) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ELC-ED grant no. 6NU50CK000557-01-05 and ELC-CORE grant no. NU50CK000557).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance has emerged as a powerful tool used by public health authorities to track SARS-CoV-2 infections in communities. In May 2020, the Houston Health Department began working with a coalition of municipal and academic partners to develop a wastewater monitoring and reporting system for the city of Houston, Texas. Data collected from the system are integrated with other COVID-19 surveillance data and communicated through different channels to local authorities and the general public. This information is used to shape policies and inform actions to mitigate and prevent the spread of COVID-19 at municipal, institutional, and individual levels. Based on the success of this monitoring and reporting system to drive public health protection efforts, the wastewater surveillance program is likely to become a standard part of the public health toolkit for responding to infectious diseases and, potentially, other disease-causing outbreaks.
AB - Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance has emerged as a powerful tool used by public health authorities to track SARS-CoV-2 infections in communities. In May 2020, the Houston Health Department began working with a coalition of municipal and academic partners to develop a wastewater monitoring and reporting system for the city of Houston, Texas. Data collected from the system are integrated with other COVID-19 surveillance data and communicated through different channels to local authorities and the general public. This information is used to shape policies and inform actions to mitigate and prevent the spread of COVID-19 at municipal, institutional, and individual levels. Based on the success of this monitoring and reporting system to drive public health protection efforts, the wastewater surveillance program is likely to become a standard part of the public health toolkit for responding to infectious diseases and, potentially, other disease-causing outbreaks.
KW - COVID-19
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - public health interventions
KW - wastewater
KW - wastewater surveillance
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U2 - 10.1177/00333549231185625
DO - 10.1177/00333549231185625
M3 - Article
C2 - 37503606
AN - SCOPUS:85165974471
SN - 0033-3549
VL - 138
SP - 856
EP - 861
JO - Public Health Reports
JF - Public Health Reports
IS - 6
ER -