
ADVISORY
Covid-19 Contact Tracing Ecosystem Advisory for State & Local Agencies
For agency officials seeking assistance in evaluating contact tracing vendors.
Steve Waters is a leading expert on the Covid-19 contact tracing ecosystem, featured extensively in the press including The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg and Harvard’s Data-Smart City Solutions.
He is the Founder & CEO of CONTRACE Public Health Corps, and is the publisher of Covid Contact Tracing Monitor, a weekly briefing on global Covid-19 contact tracing developments. Waters is also a featured panelist at the 2020 Disease Control & Prevention Summit America and the 2020 World Vaccine Congress.
Quickly gain powerful insight
Better understand the overall Covid-19 contact tracing ecosystem, at both a macro and micro level
Evaluate existing vendors based on your specific criteria, prioritizing those who have demonstrated extensive understanding of contact tracing and align with your public health and policy priorities
Forecasting and planning to keep pace with the rapidly changing Covid-19 landscape
Unique perspective from a trusted partner
Waters is a trusted source whose insight on Covid-19 contact tracing has appeared extensively in the press including The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, Harvard’s Data-Smart City Solutions and Business Insider. He is a featured panelist at the 2020 Disease Control & Prevention Summit America and the 2020 World Vaccine Congress. He appeared in CNN’s Contact Tracing 101 - a widely viewed contact tracing explainer, and his insight into leadership in an era of Covid-19 has been featured in Fast Company & Harvard Business Review.
A unique perspective
Steve Waters is the Founder & CEO of CONTRACE Public Health Corps, a Washington, DC social enterprise founded in April 2020 to address the lack of a national contact tracing strategy. CONTRACE was the first organization to nationally recruit contact tracers for Covid-19, and within two months had identified and pre-screened over 100,000 qualified individuals.
Through CONTRACE, Waters has gained a unique perspective on the contact tracing ecosystem, informed by conversations with hundreds of stakeholders including public health experts, contact tracers, health workforce experts, academics, officials at state & local government agencies, business executives, technology vendors, staffing agencies, think tank researchers and journalists.