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David Larsen

Contact Information:

dalarsen@syr.edu

315.443.4059

444F White Hall

David Larsen

Professor and Chair, Public Health Department


Courses

  • 2025 Fall
    • BIO 460 Research in Biology
  • 2025 Spring
    • ANT/PHP 463/663 Global Health
  • 2023 Fall
    • FYS 101 First Year Seminar
    • PHP 633 Spatial statistics for public health
  • 2023 Spring
    • PHP 668 Applied Epidemiology

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 2013

Bio

David Larsen is an infectious disease epidemiologist. His content expertise lies broadly in global health, with specific expertise in infectious disease surveillance. 

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"New York State Wastewater Surveillance Center of Excellence", Sponsored by Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

"Examining Neighborhood Profiles Defined by Place-Based Community Features and their Relationships with Firearm Violence Disparities", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health.

"Conducting A Racial Equity Impact Assessment And Developing A Community Advisory Board To Inform The Expansion Of The New York State Wastewater Surveillance Network", Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University.

"Field trials and optimization of dried attractive bait stations in Puerto Rico", Sponsored by Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

"ELC Wastewater Surveillance Phase 3", Sponsored by Department of Health & Human Services.

"NYS Wastewater Surveillance Network-Phase 2", Sponsored by Department of Health & Human Services.

"2021 Emergency Response - RARE Programme", Sponsored by Internet Society Foundation.

"NYS Wastewater Surveillance Network", Sponsored by Department of Health & Human Services.

"The SARS2 Early Warning Wastewater Surveillance Platform", Sponsored by NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation.

"Oversight of Data Analysis of CKDu Project", Sponsored by State University of New York Upstate.

"Educating girls in the classroom and beyond in northern Nigeria: Data Analysis", Sponsored by John D & Catherine T MacArthur Fdn.

"Educating girls in the classroom and beyond in northern Nigeria", Sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

"Epidemiology support for the Kenya HDSS site", Sponsored by Research Foundation of State University.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Lang, D., Rosenberg, E., Alazawi, M., Fuschino, M., Godinez, A., St. George, K., Larsen, D. A., Neyra, M., Hill, D., Hughes, S., Jorba, J., Gerloff, N., Fei Fan, N., Oberste, S., Association of Public Health Laboratories Infectious Disease Laboratory Conference (APHL ID Lab)., "Rapid-response wastewater testing to support a polio outbreak investigation" (2023)

Public Health and Water Conference & Wastewater Disease Surveillance Summit, "Coupling freedom from disease principles and early warning from wastewater surveillance to improve health security." (2022)

Public Webinar, "Introduction to the New York State Wastewater Surveillance Network" (2022)

Hill, D., Cousins, H., Dadaraw, B., Faruolo, C., Godinez, A., Run, S., Smith, S., Wilkens, M., Zirath, S., Larsen, D. A., Public Health and Water Conference & Wastewater Disease Surveillance Summit., "Ready and willing: New York state wastewater treatment plants show high capacity to pull and ship samples as part of a public health wastewater surveillance network." (2022)

New York State Public Health Association Annual Meeting, "The New York State Wastewater Surveillance Network" (2022)

Institute of Biological Engineering, "Waiting for numerical anomalies: Can we improve infectious disease surveillance?" (2022)

SUNY Albany School of Public Health and Department of Geography, "A wastewater surveillance network for New York – responding to COVID-19 and improving future public health decision making. GIS Days." (2021)

International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance., "Improving health security through wastewater surveillance" (2021)

National Academy of Sciences – Infectious disease and environmental health research and decision making workshop, "Improving health security through wastewater surveillance" (2021)

Larsen, D. A., Collins, M. B., Du, Q., Insaf, T. Z., Kilaru, P., Kmush, B. L., Middleton, F., Stamm, A., Wilder, M. L., Zeng, T., "Incorporating freedom from disease principles into wastewater surveillance to improve health security: a case study of SARS-CoV-2. Epidemics." (2021)

New University of Singapore, "Leveraging wastewater surveillance to improve health security. NERI: International e-workshop on wastewater-based COVID-19 surveillance." (2021)

Monthly Seminar Series, New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology,, "The New York State wastewater surveillance network" (2021)

Annual conference of New York State environmental health directors., "The New York State wastewater surveillance network." (2021)

Central Chapter Annual Meeting, "The New York State wastewater surveillance network. New York Water and Environmental Association (NYWEA)" (2021)

Hill, D. T., Cousins, H., Dandaraw, B., Faruolo, C., Godinez, A., Run, S., Smith, S., Wilkens, M., Larsen, D. A., Zirath, S., Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 NSF Research Coordination Network. Online, 2021. Larsen DA. A wastewater surveillance network, "Treatment plant capability to test for COVID-19 in New York" (2021)

Honors and Accolades

Chancellor's Citation for Excellence - Outstanding Group Contributions to Student Experience and University Initiatives, Syracuse University: One University Awards (2021)

Chancellor's Medal, Syracuse University: One University Awards (2021)

Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Research, Syracuse University, Falk College (2018)