The COVID-19 Wastewater Coalition’s Public Health Advisory Group includes eight leading Canadian leading experts. These advisors will address how data generated by wastewater surveillance is shared with public health authorities and provide guidance on ethics and communications. Collectively, the members bring a wide range of of expertise, experience and leadership in medical practice, public health, health sciences, research and ethics to this role.
Canadian Water Network has appointed the following public health experts to the group:
- André Corriveau, Consultant, Health Services Delivery and Public Health; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary
- Steve E. Hrudey, Professor Emeritus, Analytical and Environmental Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
- Judith L. Isaac-Renton, Professor Emerita, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
- Patrick Levallois, Professor, Université Laval; Medical Advisor, Institut national de santé publique du Québec
- Wendy Pons, Professor, Bachelor of Environmental Health, Conestoga College; Adjunct Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, York University
- Jacob Shelley, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, School of Health Studies and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health, Western University
- Diego Silva, Lecturer, University of Sydney (Australia); former Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
- James Talbot, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta; Expert Advisor to the Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health