Charting the Future of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Vector-Borne Diseases: Opportunities, Challenges, and Climate-Driven Needs

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<jats:p>Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) pose a growing public health threat globally, driven by climate change, urbanization, and increasing human mobility. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), which has proven valuable for monitoring enteric and...</jats:p>

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Ahmed, Tahmina, Alessandro Zulli, Farah Ishtiaq, Judith Chui Ching Wong, Juliana Calabria de Araujo, Katrin Gaardbo Kuhn, Alexandria Boehm, Rolf Halden, et al. (n.d.). Charting the Future of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Vector-Borne Diseases: Opportunities, Challenges, and Climate-Driven Needs. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. 10.1039/d5ew00799b Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/33787.

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Delgado Vela

Jeseth Delgado Vela

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Jeseth Delgado Vela joined Duke University as an Assistant Professor in August 2023. Her work focuses on leveraging environmental biotechnology to improve urban water infrastructure. She integrates molecular tools and modeling to understand how microbial community interactions and dynamics affect engineered water treatment systems. Dr. Delgado Vela earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Duke, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Howard University. She was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Award (2016), was named an Early Career Research Fellow by the Gulf Research Program (2022), and was awarded an NSF CAREER Award (2022).

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