The Case For Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities In The US
Argues that preserving the capabilities delivered by the National Wastewater Surveillance System beyond 2025 should be a public health priority.
Laura J. Faherty
Senior Physician Policy Researcher; Professor of Policy Analysis (Affiliate), the RAND School of Public Policy
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Laura Faherty is a senior physician policy researcher at RAND, associate professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and attending physician at Maine Medical Center. She is also a RAND Global Scholar in Pandemic Preparedness. Prior to joining RAND, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
A practicing general pediatrician with public health and health services research training, Dr. Faherty's work focuses on maternal-child health and pandemic preparedness and response, in both U.S. and non-U.S. settings. Her current research focuses on building trust in public health through social media; early warning systems for potential pandemics such as wastewater surveillance; impacts of school-associated vaccination on vaccination rates; and perinatal behavioral health. She recently published a toolkit funded by CDC on conducting behavioral health surveillance in the disaster context, supported the development of the 2020 Vaccines National Strategic Plan, contributed to The Rockefeller Foundation's national playbook for COVID-19 testing in K–12 schools, and evaluated the impact of The Rockefeller Foundation's Equity-First COVID-19 Vaccination Initiative. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIDA, NIMHD, NIMH), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and CDC, among others.
Dr. Faherty completed her residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children's Hospital. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. in global epidemiology from Emory University, her M.S. in health policy research from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.A. in history of science from Princeton University.
Education
M.D., Emory University School of Medicine; M.P.H. in global epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health; M.S.H.P. in health policy research, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in history of science, Princeton University
Languages
Spanish
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine; Associate Director, Barbara Bush Children's Hospital Scholars Academy; Attending Physician, Maine Medical Center
Selected Work
- Faherty LJ, Kranz AM, Russell-Fritch J, Patrick SW, Cantor J, Stein BD., "Association of Punitive and Reporting State Policies Related to Substance Use in Pregnancy With Rates of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome," JAMA Network Open, 2(11), 2019
- Faherty, LJ, Rasmussen, SA, and Lurie, N, "Planning for Research on Children During Public Health Emergencies," Pediatrics, 137(2), 2016
- Faherty, LJ, Rasmussen, SA, and Lurie, N, "A Call for Science Preparedness for Pregnant Women in Public Health Emergencies," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016
Authored by Laura J. Faherty
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