Judy Qiu

Judy Qiu serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her institutional base is the Mackenzie Health Science Centre in Edmonton (8440 - 112 St, Edmonton AB T6G 2B7), with contact via yuanyuan@ualberta.ca and (780) 407-8287.

Her research program centers on environmental virology and public health surveillance, specializing in wastewater-based epidemiology for infectious disease monitoring. Key focus areas include virus stability dynamics in environmental matrices, development of early outbreak detection systems, and translational applications for vulnerable populations like long-term care facilities. This work bridges laboratory medicine with community health protection through innovative virological methods.

Recent publications demonstrate her leadership in applying wastewater surveillance to real-world public health challenges, particularly for respiratory pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. Her 2024 studies establish critical protocols for sample handling in wastewater virology and validate predictive models linking wastewater signals to clinical outbreaks, highlighting interdisciplinary integration of environmental science, clinical data, and serological monitoring.