10,000
Serve a population of 10,000 or more people
WastewaterSCAN is a national program that monitors infectious diseases through municipal wastewater systems to inform public health responses at a local, regional, or national level.
WastewaterSCAN’s approach is sensitive, comparable from place to place, and useful to public health officials and the public. WastewaterSCAN shares data publicly through our online dashboard. Additionally, data are provided to the CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) database.
We analyze trends and help translate findings through data interpretation and regular meetings with public health officials, wastewater treatment plants, and others. Our methods are published for use by other scientists and public health and wastewater monitoring practitioners. WastewaterSCAN is led by researchers from Stanford University and Emory University and is philanthropically funded.
Participating treatment plants will:
3
Sample three times a week
Open data
Display results data on WastewaterSCAN’s online dashboard
WastewaterSCAN may work with some treatment plants that serve smaller populations in the interest of greater health equity.

No Cost to Communities
Philanthropic funding covers the full cost for sampling materials, shipping, and stipends to cover the labor cost to municipalities for sample collection.
How It Works
PARTNERS
The WastewaterSCAN program is a powerful partnership among higher education, industry, public leaders, and philanthropy, including: