Equity-centered adaptive sampling in sub-sewershed wastewater surveillance using census data.

ABSTRACT: Sub-city, or sub-sewershed, wastewater monitoring for infectious diseases offers a data-driven strategy to inform local public health response and complements city-wide data from centralized wastewater treatment plants. Developing strategies for equitable representation of diverse populations in sub-city wastewater sampling frameworks is complicated by misalignment between demographic data and sampling zones. We address this challenge by: (1) developing a geospatial analysis tool that probabilistically assigns demographic data for subgroups aggregated by race and age from census blocks to sub-city sampling zones; (2) evaluating representativeness of subgroup populations for COVID-19 wastewater-based disease surveillance in Davis, California; and (3) demonstrating scenario planning that pri

SUBMITTER: Muralidharan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500673 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature