Year 2 Project

CoVaRR-Net Researchers

Doug Manuel, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Director, Pillar 8 Deputy, and Project Lead

Robert Delatolla, University of Ottawa, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member, Pillar 5 Deputy
John Giesy, University of Saskatchewan, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member
Chrystal Landgraff, National Microbiology Lab, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member
Chand Mangat, Public Health Agency of Canada, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member
Ioannis Ragoussis, McGill University, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member, Pillar 5 Lead
Jesse Shapiro, McGill University, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member, Pillar 6 Co-Lead
Amina Stoddart, Dalhousie University, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member
Peter Vanrolleghem, Université Laval, Wastewater Surveillance Research Group Member

Lay Summary

This project will establish best measurement practices for wastewater testing and surveillance using a multidisciplinary, consensus approach. We will focus on reporting wastewater metrics, including smoothing, outlier detection, outbreak detection, growth parameters, and short-term projections, to inform questions such as do the data and reports represent the amount and trend of viral levels in the community? We will also focus on understanding the relationship between wastewater recovery and clinical cases, hospitalization, and death, and environmental parameters of SARS-CoV-2 viral load, including sensitivity, specificity, and the positive predictive value of new outbreaks, to help model or support models for policy evaluation and projections.

Budget

$75,000 cash contribution