Meet our Partners
The Center of Excellence is a collaboration between academic, utility, and public health partners.
PUBLIC HEALTH
Along with academic and utility partners, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was recognized as one of the CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System Centers of Excellence in 2023.
At CDPH, the California Surveillance of Wastewaters (Cal-SuWers) program includes the Center for Infectious Diseases (CID) Wastewater Surveillance Epidemiology team and the Center for Laboratory Sciences (CLS) Drinking Water and Radiation Laboratory (DWRL), where wastewater laboratory testing is performed.
To learn more about the California Department of Public Health’s wastewater surveillance programs visit the webpages below.
California Department of Public Health Center for Infectious Diseases Division of Communicable Disease Control
COVID Control Branch
To learn more, visit the CDPH Wastewater Surveillance webpage.
California Department of Public Health Center for Laboratory Sciences
Division of Environmental Health Laboratories
Drinking Water and Radiation Laboratory
To learn more, visit the Drinking Water and Radiation Laboratory webpage.
WastewaterSCAN, a philanthropically funded academic group, has been instrumental partners to the CDPH CA Surveillance of Wastewaters (Cal-SuWers) program since 2020. Principal Investigator Alexandria Boehm of Stanford University and Co-Principal Investigator Marlene Wolfe of Emory University serve as program directors for WastewaterSCAN. Through this collaboration, both universities are recognized as partners of the California WWS Center of Excellence. For additional information about our academic partners, visit the links below or the WastewaterSCAN webpage.
ACADEMIC PARTNERS
Dr. Alexandria Boehm, PhD
Professor at Stanford University & Principal Investigator of WastewaterSCAN
To learn more, visit Stanford’s profile webpage about Dr. Boehm.
Dr. Marlene Wolfe, PhD
Assistant Professor at Emory University & Co-Principal Investigator of WastewaterSCAN
To learn more, visit Emory’s profile webpage about Dr. Wolfe.
UTILITY PARTNERS
Among other utilities, CDPH has worked with the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA) and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) on efforts around wastewater surveillance for public health since 2020. SFPUC and CASA are both recognized as partners of the California WWS Center of Excellence.
For additional information about our utility partners visit their webpages below.
To learn more, visit the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission webpage.
To learn more, visit the CASA Research webpage.
