Panel A: Innovative COVID-19 Response Science / Public Health on Campuses

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Hosted by the University of Denver on January 8, 2020, the first annual STAT Conference (Seeking Tomorrow's Answers Together) brought together higher education institutions, researchers and leaders from across the nation to discuss and share their innovations and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.du.edu/stat

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Facilitator: Derigan Silver, Ph.D. – Deputy COVID Response Coordinator and Associate professor, Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies; Director of the John Madden Center for Innovation in the Creative and Liberal Arts; University of Denver

"CUSew: Campus Sewer Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2"
Cresten Mansfeldt, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering; University of Colorado Boulder

"High Frequency Saliva Testing (1M+)"
Paul Hergenrother, Ph.D. – Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois

"High Frequency Testing Protocols"
David Luzzi, Ph.D. – Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President of the Innovation Campus, Northeastern University

"Digital Contact Tracing"
Brian Toolan – Sr. Director, Public Sector Strategy at Everbridge

"Backwards Contact Tracing"
Corinne Lengsfeld, Ph.D. – Sr. Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education, University of Denver

"Disease Modeling"
Erin Kobetz, M.D., MPH – Professor and Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship, University of Miami

"Indoor risk mitigation strategies"
Shelly Miller, Ph.D. – Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder

"Using a three-pronged strategy of mass testing, wastewater, and contact tracing"
David Larsen, Ph.D.., MPH – Associate Professor of Public Health in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics at Syracuse University