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NEWS, ARTICLES, AND MEDIA
Our work has gained global media attention and we have been recognized for our contributions to create an impact on pathogen surveillance efforts in West Africa. Read more about Sentinel in the news!
Scientists pal up on pandemic prevention program
Deadly diseases kept emerging in West Africa, but going undetected. Now a program spearheaded by two scientists hopes to catch the next emerging disease before it becomes a pandemic.
September 20 2023
Heard on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
By Ari Daniel
African scientists say Western aid to fight pandemic is backfiring. Here's their plan
"biosecurity can only be sustained by investing in public health professionals. African countries should thus aggressively train field epidemiologists, Ph.D. scientists and frontline health-care workers — such as doctors, nurses, and midwives — "to build capacity on the ground,"
November 4, 2022
By Simar Bajaj
A Spiking Fever
Long neglected, Lassa fever is surging in West Africa. Researchers want to know why
Feb 22, 2024
By Leslie Roberts
It's been 4 years since COVID hit. Here's what's happening to prevent the next pandemic.
""We should have learned from past outbreaks, but we haven't enacted those learnings,"
By Karen Weintraub
USA TODAY
Meet the scientists trying to stop the next global pandemic from starting in Africa
"Since 2008, Happi and Sabeti have been building a disease surveillance system in West Africa known as Sentinel, officially launching it in 2020, one month before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic."
August 9, 2023
By Simar Bajaja and Abdullahi Tsanni
STAT
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