The mission of the Diagnostics, Surveillance, and Epidemiology (DSE) Working Group is to drive collaboration and innovation in infectious disease detection, monitoring, and data-driven understanding. We aim to develop and implement improved diagnostics, surveillance tools, and epidemiological methods that strengthen both clinical practice and public health response.

Bringing together experts from academia, clinical medicine, public health, and industry, the group builds on lessons learned from COVID-19 to enhance our collective capacity to predict, detect, and prevent future infectious threats.

DSE collaborates closely with the New England Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence (PGCoE)—a CDC-funded consortium —with the shared goal of advancing innovation and technical capacity in pathogen diagnostics, genomics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, and digital technologies, and accelerating their translation into public health practice.

Monthly presentations foster open exchange, collegial discussion, and new collaborations across disciplines.

Focus areas include:

• Novel detection technologies, including point-of-need, high-throughput, and multi-analyte testing
• Clinical and environmental surveillance (e.g., wastewater, air, and vector monitoring)
• Innovative serological approaches
• Tools for managing, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data
• Public health applications of molecular and epidemiological modeling
• Decision-support tools for clinical and reference laboratories

Meetings: Third Friday of every month at 3:00 p.m. ET