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Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Ppublish 3 citations

PubMed: 37620099 DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012921

Interactive SARS-CoV-2 dashboard for real-time geospatial visualisation of sewage and clinical surveillance data from Dhaka, Bangladesh: a tool for public health situational awareness.

BMJ Glob Health 8(8)

Authors: Erin G Wettstone, Md Ohedul Islam, Lauren Hughlett, Claire Reagen, Tahmina Shirin, Mahbubur Rahman, Kawsar Hosan, Md Raihanul Hoque, Stephanie A Brennhofer, Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Yoann Mira, Lukas von Tobel, Rashidul Haque, Mami Taniuchi, Isobel M Blake

Affiliations

  • Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Department of Economics, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. a2i, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • a2i, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Novel-T, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Abstract

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many dashboards were created to visualise clinical case incidence. Other dashboards have displayed SARS-CoV-2 sewage data, largely from countries with formal sewage networks. However, very few dashboards from low-income and lower-middle-income countries integrated both clinical and sewage data sets. We created a dashboard to track in real-time both COVID-19 clinical cases and the level of SARS-CoV-2 virus in sewage in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The development of this dashboard was a collaborative iterative process with Bangladesh public health stakeholders to include specific features to address their needs. The final dashboard product provides spatiotemporal visualisations of COVID-19 cases and SARS-CoV-2 viral load at 51 sewage collection sites in 21 wards in Dhaka since 24 March 2020. Our dashboard was updated weekly for the Bangladesh COVID-19 national task force to provide supplemental data for public health stakeholders making public policy decisions on mitigation efforts. Here, we highlight the importance of working closely with public health stakeholders to create a COVID-19 dashboard for public health impact. In the future, the dashboard can be expanded to track trends of other infectious diseases as sewage surveillance is increased for other pathogens.

MeSH

Income, Global Health, Public Health, Sewage, Sars Virus, Covid-19, Sars-Cov-2

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