Nathan LaCross

Nathan manages the Wastewater Surveillance Program at the Utah Department of Health. He received a Master of Public Health in 2006 and a doctorate in epidemiology in 2011, both from the University of Michigan. He first joined the Utah Department of Health in 2013 working with the Environmental Epidemiology Program on environmental health issues and assessment in Utah. Since March of 2020, he has been working on COVID-19 surveillance and assisting the state’s pandemic response. Nathan has been involved with Utah’s wastewater surveillance efforts from their beginning in the spring of 2020, and strives to continually build and enhance the program.