Xingji Zheng

Wastewater surveillance for TB in Nunavut

• Establish a real-time, wastewater-based surveillance (WWS) and screening system in Iqaluit, Nunavut, to monitor Mtb biomarker levels across time
• Using WWS to inform early public health interventions to prevent both disease progression and community transmission
• Develop, optimize and evaluate assays to detect, quantify and calibrate levels of Mtb from wastewater and clinical samples