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.

 
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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

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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.