A made-in-Canada wastewater monitoring system is amongst the first in the world to anticipate disease outbreaks and provide reliable and accessible data to support public and individual health decisions.
What wastewater surveillance can — and can’t — tell us, and why only some provinces are using the data
The “game-changing” method is now used by all 34 public health units in Ontario, covering 80 per cent of the population.
“Faculty of Engineering professor Robert Delatolla has been awarded the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering...
“Levels of coronavirus in Ottawa’s wastewater increasing since June 5”
“‘It could be like a smoke detector,’ said Ottawa researcher Robert Delatolla”
“The work is part of a growing global movement to track numerous diseases in wastewater and to hone in on neighbourhoods and institutions.”
“Having advance warning of when RSV would start to spread rapidly means health officials can be more accurate about when to begin doses...
“Faculty of Engineering professor Robert Delatolla has been awarded the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering...
“University of Ottawa’s Delatolla Lab working with CHEO Research Institute and McMaster’s Children’s Hospital uses real-time wastewater...
“A groundbreaking research study is being launched in Iqaluit to explore wastewater monitoring as a tool to detect and prevent the spread...
