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ArticlePLOS global public health2026

Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance.

Emily A Smith, Maryam Ahmadi Jeshvaghane, Dylan A Pilz, Mercury Shitindo, João Costa da Silva, Lance Gable, Keaghan Brown, Tracey Calvert-Joshua, Farzaana Diedericks, Gültekin Ünal and 11 more

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Article in PLOS global public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Emily A SmithCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
Maryam Ahmadi JeshvaghaneDepartment of Translational Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-2601
Dylan A PilzDepartment of Translational Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4173-4480
Mercury ShitindoAfrica Bioethics Network, Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3814-8786
João Costa da SilvaPublic Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3860-5154
Lance GableWayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3095-8426
Keaghan BrownPublic Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0479-7614
Tracey Calvert-JoshuaPublic Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6028-7811
Farzaana DiedericksPublic Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology, South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8345-7350
Gültekin ÜnalDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8996-7028
Jillian S PaullHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America.
Nitin B ShuklaGujarat Biotechnology Research Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3251-0369
Zeenatuddeen MuhammadEnvironmental Health Council of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria.
Justice Ohene AmofaGenomics and Bioinformatics Core Facility Unit, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7669-1626
Elyssa Jiawen LiuCentre for Outbreak Preparedness, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
Emma J GriffithsCentre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Chrystal LandgraffNational Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3253-2496
Fatma Z GuerfaliLaboratory of Transmission, Control and Immunobiology of Infections, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
Nicki TiffinSouth African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5083-2735
Joshua I LevyDepartment of Translational Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7573-7793
Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) Wastewater Surveillance Working Group

Funding

PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNOLOGY OF DISEASET32AI007244 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI NEMAZEE, DAVID · 1985 to 2022
$8.8M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated global adoption of wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) and revealed its value as a complement to case-based infectious disease monitoring. However, practical scientific, ethical, and legal standards for public health implementation remain limited. To address this gap, the Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) established a multidisciplinary international working group to develop community-driven, open guidance on WES methods and best practices. By integrating expertise from public health researchers, practitioners, bioethicists, and legal scholars, together with feedback from the broader public health community, these standards aim to promote transparent, reproducible, and accessible implementation of WES worldwide. This continuously updated framework spans surveillance strategies, data analysis, data sharing, and ethical-legal considerations, aligning with normative guidance from global public health authorities while remaining adaptable to diverse contexts and resource levels. All guidance documents can be found at https://pha4ge.github.io/wastewater-guidance.

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PMCPMC13095016

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