Professor Amy Pickering contributes to Environmental Science & Technology's 60th anniversary special issue

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Professor Amy Pickering contributes to Environmental Science & Technology's 60th anniversary special issue, sharing her opinions in a viewpoint entitled, “A New Era for Global Environmental Surveillance of Infectious Disease,” in which she argues that now is the time to invest in leveraging new molecular biology methods to track population trends in disease through environmental sampling. 

Pickering highlights how advances in environmental surveillance, genomics, and molecular detection technologies can help identify emerging infectious disease threats earlier and strengthen public health response efforts worldwide.

Read more: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.6c03663