This project aims to establish hospital-based wastewater surveillance (WWS) in New York City to complement existing community-level WWS (conducted by New York State Department of Health and NYC DOHMH), and to enhance traditional clinical surveillance systems tracking COVID-19, influenza, and RSV. By integrating hospital wastewater data with clinical surveillance and hospital electronic health records, we plan to systematically assess correlations and complementarity of H+H WWS with H+H EHR data, community-based WWS, traditional public health surveillance data sources.
We are also evaluating the use of wastewater—both hospital and community-level—as an early warning system for respiratory illness outbreaks in NYC, and assessing key factors (such as sampling frequency and normalization techniques) that may influence the performance of hospital-based WWS for surveillance of different pathogens
Project Investigators
Madhura Rane
Research Scientist
Denis Nash
ISPH Executive Director
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology
Monica Trujillo
ISPH Investigator
John J. Dennehy
ISPH Investigator
Sofia Pesantez
Ferguson RISE Fellow