Environment fingerprinting via digital technology - a new paradigm in hazard forecasting and early-warning systems for health risks in Africa
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Bath
Department Name: Chemistry
Abstract
Unprecedented rate of urbanization constitutes substantial risks to the resilience of cities, with public health and welfare being the most critical concern. This includes the emergence of (non-)communicable disease epidemics due to environment contamination and lifestyle factors. To increase the sustainability of cities, there is a critical need for an early warning system (EWS) for public & environmental health diagnostics that operates on a large scale and in real time. Rapid urbanisation and the young, growing population of Africa are also linked with rapid digitisation and an unprecedented up-take of new technology. This presents a unique opportunity for the development of a digital technology-based, comprehensive and real time EWS that is attuned to public and environmental health risks in rapidly changing Africa. We propose to build a network aiming to develop a public & environmental health diagnostics and hazard forecasting platform in Africa via urban environment fingerprinting underpinned by digital innovation.
EDGE-I will develop a conceptual model (and a prototype in EDGE-II) of an environment fingerprinting platform for hazard forecasting and EWS using DIGITAL INNOVATION and state-of-the-art bioanalytical, socioeconomic, statistical & modelling tools. The digital innovation will be focused on the use of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled sensors and cloud computing as a plat-form for capturing, storing, processing, and presenting a wide range of environmental measures to a broad group of stakeholders.
EDGE will focus on two key thematic areas of critical importance to rapidly growing and urbanising Africa:
(1) Water, sanitation & public health: as a vector for infectious disease spread and environmental AMR.
(2) Urbanization & pollution: as a vector for environmental degradation and non-communicable disease.
EDGE postulates that the measurement of endo- and exogenous environment & human derived residues continuously and anonymously pooled by the receiving environment (sewage, rivers, soils and air), can provide near real-time dynamic information about the quantity and type of physical, biological or chemical stressor to which the surveyed system is exposed, and can profile the effects of this exposure. It can therefore provide anonymised, comprehensive and objective information on the health status of urban dwellers and surrounding environments in real time, as urban environment continuously pools anonymous urine, wastewater and runoff samples from thousands of urban dwellings.
EDGE-I will focus on building a concept of a prototype of EWS in two geographically and socioeconomically contrasting areas in Africa: Lagos (Nigeria), Cape Town (South Africa). The young and growing population of Africa that is rapidly up-taking digital innovation provides a unique opportunity for building a system underpinned by digital channels to provide long and lasting impacts. To achieve above EDGE-I will:
1 Develop a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral network focussed on building EWS in Africa
2 Develop a conceptual model of an EWS in Afri-ca underpinned by digital innovation in techno-logical solutions and Citizen Science
3 Engage with stakeholders: from citizens, through government to digital tech industry
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DGE-I will catalyse the development of a large-scale research programme (EDGE-II).
EDGE-I will develop a conceptual model (and a prototype in EDGE-II) of an environment fingerprinting platform for hazard forecasting and EWS using DIGITAL INNOVATION and state-of-the-art bioanalytical, socioeconomic, statistical & modelling tools. The digital innovation will be focused on the use of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled sensors and cloud computing as a plat-form for capturing, storing, processing, and presenting a wide range of environmental measures to a broad group of stakeholders.
EDGE will focus on two key thematic areas of critical importance to rapidly growing and urbanising Africa:
(1) Water, sanitation & public health: as a vector for infectious disease spread and environmental AMR.
(2) Urbanization & pollution: as a vector for environmental degradation and non-communicable disease.
EDGE postulates that the measurement of endo- and exogenous environment & human derived residues continuously and anonymously pooled by the receiving environment (sewage, rivers, soils and air), can provide near real-time dynamic information about the quantity and type of physical, biological or chemical stressor to which the surveyed system is exposed, and can profile the effects of this exposure. It can therefore provide anonymised, comprehensive and objective information on the health status of urban dwellers and surrounding environments in real time, as urban environment continuously pools anonymous urine, wastewater and runoff samples from thousands of urban dwellings.
EDGE-I will focus on building a concept of a prototype of EWS in two geographically and socioeconomically contrasting areas in Africa: Lagos (Nigeria), Cape Town (South Africa). The young and growing population of Africa that is rapidly up-taking digital innovation provides a unique opportunity for building a system underpinned by digital channels to provide long and lasting impacts. To achieve above EDGE-I will:
1 Develop a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral network focussed on building EWS in Africa
2 Develop a conceptual model of an EWS in Afri-ca underpinned by digital innovation in techno-logical solutions and Citizen Science
3 Engage with stakeholders: from citizens, through government to digital tech industry
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DGE-I will catalyse the development of a large-scale research programme (EDGE-II).
Planned Impact
Policy makers, government agencies, public services and non-governmental development organisations are direct beneficiaries of this research. This project will break new ground in supplementing the current body of knowledge with new digital technology driven approaches to identifying risks within communities of different socio-economic status and communicating these risks to the stakeholder groups. The close proximity of the various communities in the selected case studies presents an opportunity to investigate the utility of an EWS in different contexts enabling wide-ranging beneficiaries in the public sector: from engineers and health professionals to environment agencies and regulators. Our approach, in the longer term, could trigger legislative, procedural or policy changes on a national scale. We will engage with local and national governments in Nigeria and South Africa (e.g. EDGE-I Partners: Lagos State Government, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Federal Ministry of Environment, Pollution Control & Environmental Health Department, City of Cape Town Municipality, Water & Waste Directorate, Water and Sanitation, Western Cape Provincial Government) to ensure informed development and future implementation of the project. Digital technology sector (represented here by EDGE-I Partners: TecLab, Amazon Web Services, bioIP and Mayden) will benefit from new ideas regarding development and implementation (in EDGE-II) of autonomous Internet of Things type platforms, sensor technology and novel applications of bioanalytical techniques. Local communities, especially the vulnerable communities of Cape Town and Lagos, will be the key direct beneficiaries. The benefit is two-fold. In short term, engagement with Lagos local-communities via Citizen Science (represented in EDGE-I Partner by EarthWatch) and communication of research outcomes will increase community-wide awareness of environment and public health related issues (NGO Partners in EDGE-I: Peculiar Grace Youth Empowerment Initiative and Centre for Human Development). In the longer term, the EWS will deliver real-time response to multi-hazards within the communities saving lives and significantly increasing security and quality of life. The project will be beneficial to society in general as it will contribute to the increase of security of water supply and better understanding of the drivers influencing communities' resilience to various man-made and natural hazards. Dissemination of the outcomes via appropriate channels (i.e. media, local leaders) will enhance public knowledge of key environment and public health priorities. Finally, this project will enhance and further consolidate expertise at the universities of Stellenbosch, Lagos and Bath. Through involvement of public sector organisations and the private sector, researchers working in this project will gain exposure to different working cultures, and an understanding of how to apply, manage and implement research outcomes across disciplines and sectors.
Organisations
- University of Bath (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- Mayden (Project Partner)
- Western Cape Government (Project Partner)
- Lagos State Government (Project Partner)
- Department of Water & Sanitation (Project Partner)
- TecLab (Project Partner)
- ScienceScope (Project Partner)
- Amazon Web Services (Not UK) (Project Partner)
- Peculiar Grace Youth Empower Initiative (Project Partner)
- Biotip Ltd (Project Partner)
- Made Culture Lagos (Project Partner)
- City of Cape Town (Project Partner)
- Conserv Educ & Res Trust UK (Earthwatch) (Project Partner)
- Centre for Human Development (CHD) (Project Partner)
- SETPOM (Project Partner)
Publications

Bivins A
(2020)
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19.
in Environmental science & technology

Kasprzyk-Hordern B
(2022)
Wastewater-based epidemiology in hazard forecasting and early-warning systems for global health risks.
in Environment international

Kasprzyk-Hordern B
(2022)
Wastewater-based epidemiology in hazard forecasting and early-warning systems for global health risks.
in Environment international
Description | EDGE focussed on the foundational network building that enabled designing a conceptual model for an environment fingerprinting platform for public & environmental health diagnostics and hazard forecasting using digital technology to understand and characterise key cause - effect associations resulting from natural & anthropogenic hazards (e.g. flood, infectious disease) attending to the ripple effects that may cascade through the system in the context of sustained high rates of urbanization in African cities. EDGE focussed on establishing the appropriate network for designing a prototype EWS in two geo-graphically and socioeconomically contrasting areas in Africa: Lagos (Nigeria), Cape Town (South Africa). These areas are subject to different stressors and resulting multi-hazard risks, but have core common denominators: resource stress driven by uncontrolled population growth, low resource availability & unpredictable weather conditions. The close proximity of various communities of different socio-economic status, accessing different levels of infrastructure and exposed to different stressors, presents an opportunity to investigate the socio-technical challenges of developing & implementing an EWS in such contexts. The young and growing population of Africa that is rapidly up-taking digital innovation provides a unique opportunity for building a system underpinned by digital channels to provide long and lasting impacts. The main key outputs are: 1 Development of a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral network focussed on building EWS in Africa 2 Development of a conceptual model of an EWS in Africa underpinned by digital innovation in techno-logical solutions and Citizen Science 3 Development of a demonstration platform for EWS implementation in Africa |
Exploitation Route | EDGE-I focused on building a concept of a prototype of EWS in two geographically and socioeconomically contrasting areas in Africa: Lagos (Nigeria), Cape Town (South Africa). The young and growing population of Africa that is rapidly up-taking digital innovation provides a unique opportunity for building a system underpinned by digital channels to provide long and lasting impacts. To achieve above EDGE-I: 1 Developed a transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral network focused on building EWS in Africa 2 Developed a conceptual model of an EWS in Africa underpinned by digital innovation in techno-logical solutions and Citizen Science, to serve as a platform for deployment if new funding can be secured. 3 Engaged with stakeholders: from citizens, through government to digital tech industry The key impacts are: 1. A successful network with a wide-ranging stakeholder group now in search of an opportunity to progress without anticipated GCRF support. 2. A conceptual model (written up as a perspective paper) clearly signposting next steps for the development of an EWS. 3. Proof-of-concept real-time sensing and data collection utilizing an IoT. 4. EDGE set grounds for the development of an EWS for Sars-oV-2 surveillance via wastewater in both Nigeria (first steps) and in South Africa (a thriving national network SACCESS). Stakeholder Engagement ad Equitable Partnerships Policy makers, government agencies, public services and non-governmental development organisations are direct beneficiaries of this research and therefore input from all these sectors were collated. This project broke new ground in supplementing the current body of knowledge with new digital technology driven approaches to identifying risks within communities of different socio-economic status and communicating these risks to the stakeholder groups. The close proximity of the various communities in the selected case studies presented an opportunity to investigate the utility of an EWS in different contexts enabling wide-ranging beneficiaries in the public sector: from engineers and health professionals to environment agencies and regulators. Our approach, in the longer term, could trigger legislative, procedural or policy changes on a national scale. We engaged with local and national governments in Nigeria and South Africa (e.g. EDGE-I Partners: Lagos State Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Federal Ministry of Environment Nigeria, Pollution Control and Environmental Health Department, City of Cape Town Municipality, Water & Waste Directorate, Water and Sanitation, Western Cape Provincial Government) to ensure informed development and future implementation of the project. The digital technology sector (represented here by EDGE-I Partners: TecLab, Amazon Web Services, bioIP and Mayden) benefited from new ideas regarding development and implementation (in EDGE-II) of autonomous Internet of Things type platforms, sensor technology and novel applications of bioanalytical techniques. Local communities, especially the vulnerable communities of Cape Town and Lagos, were the key direct beneficiaries. The planned benefit was two-fold. In short term, engagement with Lagos local communities via Citizen Science (represented in EDGE-I Partner by EarthWatch) and communication of research outcomes to increase community-wide awareness of environment and public health related issues (NGO Partners in EDGE-I: Peculiar Grace Youth Empowerment Initiative and Centre for Human Development). In the longer term, the EWS was to deliver real-time response to multi-hazards within the communities saving lives and significantly increasing security and quality of life. During frequent (monthly) meetings new approaches (including citizen science) were developed. Meetings with citizens were not possible due to Covid restrictions and further work was hampered by GCRF cuts. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Environment Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice |
URL | https://ewsresearch.com/our-projects/edge/ |
Description | The impact and value of this project, and its GCRF-funded predecessor (ReNEW) has been demonstrated during the Covid pandemic, since a strong - multidisciplinary team with shared interest in WBE was already in place and collaborating when the need for wastewater surveillance was acknowledged by the respective Governments. The strong existing collaboration provided a core leadership group (at least in South Africa) that could immediately play a pivotal role in the rapid assembly of a national task team 'South African Collaboration COVID-19 Environmental Surveillance System (SACCESS)' with important partners, amongst others the Water Research Commission, National Department of Health, National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), as well as our industrial partner ERWAT. Further evidence of impact is the weekly reporting to senior management at Stellenbosch University on wastewater surveillance at the main, as well as the medical campus. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Healthcare |
Impact Types | Societal |
Description | Member of Expert Advisory Group, Accelerated capability Environment, Home Office, Homeland Security Group |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | NA |
Description | Member of the Scientific Advisory Group: Evaluation of the Public Health Utility of Wastewater-based Surveillance for Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in Scotland, Public Health Scotland |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | N/a |
Description | Member of the Substances of Emerging Concern Advisory Group (SECAG), UKWIR (UK Water Industry Research) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | National Bio-surveillance Network Discovery, Member of Expert Advisory Group, UK Health Security Agency |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | N/a |
Description | Building resilient communities in urban Africa: water, sanitation and urbanization, Bath International Funding Scheme, 2019 |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2020 |
End | 12/2020 |
Description | Chemical indicators in wastewater: a model to estimate population in WBE using multi-chemical biomarker suite |
Amount | £9,934,501 (GBP) |
Organisation | UK Health Security Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 02/2022 |
Description | Exploring understudied aspects of antimicrobial resistance evolution to improve environmental pollution policy |
Amount | £649,825 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/W006251/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2025 |
Description | GCRF_NF98_Building an Early Warning System for community-wide infectious disease spread: SARS-CoV-2 tracking in Africa via environment fingerprinting |
Amount | £441,015 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V028499/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 02/2022 |
Description | JBC Wastewater Analysis Phase 3 - National Infrastructure and Sampling |
Amount | £50,920 (GBP) |
Organisation | UK Health Security Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2021 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | PAthways of Chemicals Into Freshwaters and their ecological ImpaCts (PACIFIC) |
Amount | £488,646 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/X015890/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 10/2026 |
Description | Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals |
Amount | £400,000,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 101057014 |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 04/2022 |
End | 04/2029 |
Description | Quantifying the combined nutrient enrichment, pathogenic, and ecotoxicological impacts of livestock farming on UK rivers |
Amount | £1,182,976 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/X016080/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 10/2026 |
Description | TERM School wasTEwater-based epidemiological suRveillance systeM for the rapid identification of COVID-19 outbreaks |
Amount | £8,913 (GBP) |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | Department of Health and Social Care |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2020 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | Towards the development of a public and environmental health early warning system via water fingerprinting in Brazil |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | FAPESP - Bath Scheme 2019 |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Towards the development of a public and environmental health early warning system via water fingerprinting in Brazil |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 19/23352-6 |
Organisation | São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Brazil |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2022 |
Title | Digital Urban Environment Fingerprinting Platform (DUEF) - a new approach in hazard forecasting and early-warning systems for global health risks and an extension to the existing concept of smart cities |
Description | With the advent of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) has been applied to track community infection in cities worldwide and has proven succesful as an early warning system for identification of hotspots and changingprevalence of infections (both symptomatic and asymptomatic) at a city or sub-city level. Wastewater is only one of environmental compartments that requires consideration. In this manuscript, we have critically evaluated the knowledge-base and preparedness for building early warning systems in a rapidly urbanising world, with particular attention to Africa, which experiences rapid population growth and urbanisation. We have proposed a Digital Urban Environment Fingerprinting Platform (DUEF) - a new approach in hazard forecasting and early-warning systems for global health risks and an extension to the existing concept of smart cities. The urban environment (especially wastewater) contains a complex mixture of substances including toxic chemicals, infectious biological agents and human excretion products. DUEF assumes that these specific endo- and exogenous residues, anonymously pooled by communities' wastewater, are indicative of community-wide exposure and the resulting effects. DUEF postulates that the measurement of the substances continuously and anonymously pooled by the receiving environment (sewage, surface water, soils and air), can provide near real-time dynamic information about the quantity and type of physical, biological or chemical stressors to which the surveyed systems are exposed, and can create a risk profile on the potential effects of these exposures. Successful development and utilisation of a DUEF globally requires a tiered approach including: Stage I: network building, capacity building, stakeholder engagement as well as a conceptual model, followed by Stage II: DUEF development, Stage III: implementation, and Stage IV: management and utilization. We have identified four key pillars required for the establishment of a DUEF framework: (1) Environmental fingerprints, (2) Socioeconomic fingerprints, (3) Statistics and modelling and (4) Information systems. This manuscript critically evaluates the current knowledge base within each pillar and provides recommendations for further developments with an aim of laying grounds for successful development of global DUEF platforms. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | NA |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022000691 |
Title | In-situ multi-mode extraction (iMME) sampler for a wide-scope analysis of chemical and biological targets in water in urbanized and remote (off-the-grid) locations |
Description | Chemical pollution (including chemicals of emerging concern - CECs) continues to gain increasing attention as a global threat to human health and the environment, with numerous reports on the adverse and sometimes devastating effects upon ecosystems the presence of these chemicals can have. Whilst many studies have investigated presence of CECs in aquatic environments, these studies have been often focused on higher income countries, leaving significant knowledge gaps for many low-middle income countries. This study proposes a new integrated powerless, in-situ multi-mode extraction (iMME) sampler for the analysis of chemicals (105 CECs) and biological (5 genes) markers in water in contrasting settings: an urbanized Avon River in the UK and remote Olifants River in Kruger National Park in South Africa. The overarching goal was to develop a sampling device that maintains integrity of a diverse range of analytes via analyte immobilization using polymeric and glass fibre materials, without access to power supply or cold chain (continuous chilled storage) for sample transportation. Chemical analysis was achieved using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Several mobile CECs showed low stability in river water, at room temperature and typical 24 h sampling/transport time. It is therefore recommended that, in the absence of cooling, environmental water samples are spiked with internal standards on site, immediately after collection and analyte immobilization option is considered, in order to allow fully quantitative analysis. iMME has proven effective in immobilization, concentration and increased stability of CECs at room temperature (and at least 7 days storage) allowing for sample collection at remote locations. The results from the River Avon and Olifants River sampling indicate that the pristine environment of Olifants catchment is largely unaffected by CECs common in the urbanized River Avon in the UK with a few exceptions: lifestyle chemicals (e.g., caffeine, nicotine and their metabolites), paracetamol and UV filters due to tourism and carbamazepine due to its persistent nature. iMME equipped with an additional gene extraction capability provides an exciting new opportunity of comprehensive biochemical profiling of aqueous samples with one powerless in-situ device. Further work is required to provide full integration of the device and comprehensive assessment of performance in both chemical and biological targets. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | NA |
URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722071340 |
Description | Interdisciplinary research within research groups at the University of Lagos |
Organisation | University of Bath |
Department | Department of Chemistry |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | There is a dearth of information coming out of Africa about the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in surface water, and there is hardly any news coming out of West Africa or populous metropolises like Lagos, Nigeria. As a result, the primary objectives of this study were to characterize the specific SARS-CoV-2 strain in the surface water environment and to examine the presence of Covid-19 through molecular screening of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and surface canal water collected from deliberately selected locations in Lagos State, Nigeria. |
Collaborator Contribution | Based on preliminary findings from a small number of samples collected in China, Australia, Italy, Japan, the USA, and the Netherlands, SARS-CoV-2 detection in sewage has been established. There is a paucity of data on the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater in Africa. This has been attributed to a lack of research resources, such as funding, infrastructure, and facilities, to carry out timely and creative research to address Africa's expanding healthcare needs (Mugabe et al., 2020). Although some nations, like South Africa, have reported finding SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater (Johnson et al., 2021), West Africa and densely populated metropolises like Lagos, Nigeria, have hardly been mentioned. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to develop an early warning system for new cases in targeted areas and also focus on monitoring populations at higher risk of COVID-19 by detecting and quantifying SARS-COV-2 RNA from sewage wastewater plants at different strategically designated locations in Lagos, Nigeria. |
Impact | Sample collection, analysis, and data analysis for the projects were done by the research team at the University of Lagos, which included members from the departments of Chemistry, Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Genetics; Geography; Zoology; Public Health; Virology; Computer Science; Statistics; and Electrical Engineering. Manuscripts have been written and are currently undergoing editorial review for publication. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | 1. Kasprzyk-Hordern, Global practices on environmental surveillance for public health tracking and forensics, WRC WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DAY WEBINAR, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, A KEY PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTION IN DISEASE PANDEMIC PREVENTION 23 September 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar focussed on Wastewater-based epidemiology 1. Kasprzyk-Hordern, Global practices on environmental surveillance for public health tracking and forensics, WRC WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DAY WEBINAR, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, A KEY PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTION IN DISEASE PANDEMIC PREVENTION 23 September 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | AQUA˜360: Water for All - Emerging Issues and Innovations", talk entitled: 'Water-based chemical mining for environmental and public health assessment, 21/08/2021 (keynote) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk entitled: 'Water-based chemical mining for environmental and public health assessment |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://www.aqua360.net |
Description | Announcement of the implementation of a wastewater surveillance platform to detect COVID-19 outbreaks on the Stellenbosch University campus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A press release was done on the Stellenbosch University newsletter that announced the initiation of a wastewater-based epidemiology surveillance program on the two major campuses of Stellenbosch University. The methodology of the surveillance program was explained as well as the value that this may provide as an early warning system to safeguard the health system of campus staff and students. The press release also served as a platform for reaching other media platforms and journalists to expand on the project's communication strategy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8289 |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today's Programme, talking about wastewater epidemiology tools and their potential to monitor the health of millions of people anonymously, reliably, quickly and inexpensively. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today's Programme, talking about wastewater epidemiology tools and their potential to monitor the health of millions of people anonymously, reliably, quickly and inexpensively. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k7w6 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7044608098325434369/ |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Mass Spectrometry in urban water profiling for environmental and public health assessment, 8th EuChems Chemistry Congress, 28/08/22 ? 1/09/22 Lisbon, Portugal (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Mass Spectrometry in urban water profiling for environmental and public health assessment, 8th EuChems Chemistry Congress, 28/08/22 ? 1/09/22 Lisbon, Portugal (invited talk) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/74023/8th-euchems-chemistry-congress |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, WBE and One Health, HRMS EnviroFood 2022 Barcelona, HRMS EnviroFood 2022 Barcelona , 10/10/22 ? 11/10/22, Barcelona, Spain (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, WBE and One Health, HRMS EnviroFood 2022 Barcelona, HRMS EnviroFood 2022 Barcelona , 10/10/22 ? 11/10/22, Barcelona, Spain (invited talk) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://lcmsms.activacongresos.com/ |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater Based Epidemiology and One Health, Water Security Alliance Series 2021, 1/11/-21-4/11/21 (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater Based Epidemiology and One Health, Water Security Alliance Series 2021, 1/11/-21-4/11/21 (invited talk) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater Based Epidemiology and One Health, Welsh Government, 4 Nov 2021 (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater Based Epidemiology and One Health, Welsh Government, 4 Nov 2021 (invited talk) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater Based Epidemiology, Scottish Government, Community Surveillance Division 10/02/2022 (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater Based Epidemiology, Scottish Government, Community Surveillance Division 10/02/2022 (invited talk) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater based epidemiology for environmental and public health assessment, Joint Biosecurity Centre seminar series9/09/2021 (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Talk entitled: 'Wastewater based epidemiology for environmental and public health assessment' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Kasprzyk-Hordern interview for The bmj article: Sewage monitoring is the UK's next defence against covid-19, 15th of July 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview for an article |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2599.full |
Description | Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater-based Epidemiology and Environment Fingerprinting for Public Health Assessment, BNet Webinar: Biosensors and Environmental Monitoring - New Developments in Environmental Biotech, 17th November 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater-based Epidemiology and Environment Fingerprinting for Public Health Assessment, BNet Webinar: Biosensors and Environmental Monitoring - New Developments in Environmental Biotech, 17th November 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://ebnet.ac.uk/biosensors/ |
Description | Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater-based epidemiology for public health assessment, Cranfield University, Wastewater Network meeting, 30th June 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk by Kasprzyk-Hordern, Wastewater-based epidemiology for public health assessment, Cranfield University, Wastewater Network meeting, 30th June 2020 (invited, keynote, virtual) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Kasprzyk-Hordern, Water fingerprinting for public health assessment, British Mass Spectrometry Society, Virtual Environmental & Food Analysis SIG, 30th July 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Kasprzyk-Hordern, Water fingerprinting for public health assessment, British Mass Spectrometry Society, Virtual Environmental & Food Analysis SIG, 30th July 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://bmss.org.uk/bmss-virtual-efasig-meetings-2020/past-event-30th-july-2020 |
Description | Kasprzyk-Hordern, interview, NBCnews, In search for a coronavirus early warning system, scientists look to the sewers, 3rd of July 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/search-coronavirus-early-warning-system-scientists-look-sewers-n1... |
Description | Next epidemic could be spotted early in wastewater, say scientists (by Vicky Just), https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater-say-scientists/ |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Next epidemic could be spotted early in wastewater, say scientists (by Vicky Just, University of Bath) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater-say-scientis... |
Description | Next epidemic could be spotted early in wastewater, say scientists (by Vicky Just), https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater-say-scientists/ |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Next epidemic could be spotted early in wastewater, say scientists (by Vicky Just, University of Bath) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater-say-scientis... |
Description | Royal Society of Chemistry Webinar - Wastewater Based Epidemiology entitled Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: past, present and future, 9/09,2021 (invited talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk entitled Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: past, present and future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/47496/webinar-wastewater-based-epidemiology |
Description | Tracking-the-health-of-the-nation-through-wastewater (by Vicky Just, University of Bath), https://stories.bath.ac.uk/tracking-the-health-of-the-nation-through-wastewater/index.html |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interview by Vicky Just, University of Bath |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://stories.bath.ac.uk/tracking-the-health-of-the-nation-through-wastewater/index.html |
Description | Water fingerprinting for environmental and public health assessment, Centre of Research in Biomedical Science (CRIB), UWE, 4th December 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Talk by Kasprzyk-Hordern focussed on 'Water fingerprinting for environmental and public health assessment', Centre of Research in Biomedical Science (CRIB), UWE, 4th December 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | https://www.ukri.org/news/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater/ |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Next epidemic could be spotted early in wastewater, UKRI, https://www.ukri.org/news/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.ukri.org/news/next-epidemic-could-be-spotted-early-in-wastewater/ |