Kevin V. Thomas is Professor and Director of the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS) at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research is focused on understanding exposure to contaminants of emerging concern and assessing community-wide health status through analysing wastewater (wastewater-based epidemiology). He contributes to the Australian National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, the Queensland wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and founded the international SCORE network on sewer biomarker analysis for community health assessment (see, www.score-network.eu).