Group Leads

	Bronwyn MacInnis, Ph.D. Director of Pathogen Genomic Surveillance, Co-Director of Global Health, and an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
	Pardis Sabeti, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
	David Walt, Ph.D. Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, HMS Professor of Pathology, BWH Core Faculty-Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard University Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the MassCPR Diagnostics, Surveillance, and Epidemiology Group is to become a hub that fosters collaboration and innovation in the development of improved diagnostics, surveillance, and epidemiological tools, methods, and applications, as well as to support their implementation in clinical and public health practice. Bringing together expertise from academia, clinical medicine, public health, and the biotech industry, we aim to harness experience and insights gleaned from the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to improve our collective ability to predict, detect, track, and prevent the spread of other infectious diseases. In particular, this working group will collaborate closely with the New England Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence (PGCoE), part of a CDC-funded initiative, with the shared goal to foster and improve innovation and technical capacity in diagnostic technologies, pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, bioinformatics, and digital technologies to better prevent, control, and respond to microbial threats of public health importance.

Focus areas include:

• Novel detection technologies including for point-of-need, high-throughput, and multi-analyte testing
• Novel serological technologies
• Environmental surveillance including wastewater, air filtration, and vector surveillance
• Novel tools for managing, analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating data
• Public health applications of molecular and epidemiological model inferences
• Community surveillance projects focused on particular pathogens, demographics, or response activities
• Decision support for testing laboratories such as our hospital microbiology labs and large clinical labs

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