Collaborators and Supporters
The Santa Barbara Community Health Wastewater Collaborative is a public-private partnership established in 2021 by a number of core partners and supported by a growing array of key players in community health in Santa Barbara County. Our core partners and supporters are listed below.
Core Partners
A group of core partners came together in late 2021 to form the Collaborative and play central roles in the initial phase of its work:
City of Santa Barbara (Kaitlyn Smith), Public Works Department, El Estero Water Resource Center Team (Joshua Haggmark, Amanda Flesse, Gaylen Fair and team): sampling, procuring sample analyses, data provision
Trish Holden PhD, UCSB Bren School: leadership of the effort to establish a dedicated regional lab at UCSB
Lynn Fitzgibbons MD, Infectious Diseases physician: Convenor, Clinical/Community Health Stakeholder
UCSB Professors Stuart Feinstein PhD, Ambuj K. Singh PhD, Carolina Arias Gonzalez PhD (now at CZ Biohub) and graduate student Zach Aralis: Scientific Leads/Advisors
Cottage Center for Population Health, Katy Bazylewicz, Monica Ray, Fiona Asigbee, PhD: Epidemiology/Population Health Stakeholder
Santa Barbara County, Terri Nisich, Assistant County Executive Officer overseeing all health and human services departments: Strategic Guidance
LegacyWorks Group, Carl Palmer, Isabella Clark, and Allie Cole: Collaboration Facilitation and Data Communication
Key Supporters
The following key supporters formally supported our application for funding for the establishment of the Collaborative’s lab at UCSB:
Chair of the Board of Supervisors, and Third District Santa Barbara County Supervisor
County of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, Environmental Health Services, and County Health Officer
Cottage Health
Cottage Center for Population Health
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics
City of Santa Maria
City of Santa Barbara, Public Works Department
City of Santa Barbara, Parks and Recreation Department, Creeks Division
City of Goleta
Isla Vista Community Services District
Goleta Sanitary District
Goleta West Sanitary District
Heal the Ocean
Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB
LegacyWorks Group