Overview of the WHO and Canadian Water Network Guidelines on Ethical Issues Related to Public Health and Wastewater Surveillance
Citation:
Gutierrez, S. Overview of the WHO and Canadian Water Network Guidelines on Ethical Issues Related to Public Health and Wastewater Surveillance. WEF Public Health and Water Conference and Wastewater Disease Surveillance Summit, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 21 - 24, 2022.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation will educate utilities, public health officials and others on ethics dimensions related to wastewater surveillance.
Description:
The presentation will summarize 2 formally published documents. The first one is the World Health Organization the report broadly addresses public health surveillance. The second is a statement from the Canadian Water Network, Canadian Coalition on Wastewater-related COVID-19 Research. The Canadian report is focused on ethics and communication for wastewater surveillance.