Special Interest Group - Wastewater Surveillance

What are Special Interest Groups?

A special interest group (SIG) is a community with shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet and organise conferences.

Special interest group - Wastewater surveillance

The Wastewater SIG is co-led by A/Prof Phong Thai & Dr Rory Verhagen.

Wastewater analysis can monitor the population-level consumption of a substance or exposure to a pathogen based on the analysis of the urine and/or faeces residues present in influent wastewater. Wastewater analysis has the advantage of being cost-effective and capable of high-resolution sampling to collect information between locations and over time, providing complimentary data to support conventional epidemiological methods. This Special Interest Group will explore the use of wastewater to monitor and evaluate exposure by a range of analysis tools and sampling methods.