Sentinel's Footprint of Impact

We have made tremendous progress in expanding capacity for disease surveillance throughout the African continent. With the newest state-of-the-art Genomics Center at Redeemer’s University,  and through continued technology development,  implementation, and training. Our framework is based on a hub and spoke model with a centralized hub serving as the center for genomics work. Hub and spokes have different goals and technologies but support each other in different ways to strengthen the entire system.

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The spokes or Sentinel sites are located at healthcare clinics. This is where patients are registered, point of care testing is performed, and samples are collected. Samples travel from the spokes to the hub, where activities like high throughput surveillance testing with the CARMEN platform, sequencing, and data analytics are performed.