What to know
Researchers are building on infrastructure for multipathogen respiratory disease surveillance to combine SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data with detailed demographic and behavioral metadata to understand transmission dynamics and co-circulating respiratory pathogens.
Findings on SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and investigations
Awarded in 2022, this project continues collaborations to understand new SARS-CoV-2 variants and how they relate to severity and transmission dynamics. Researchers are also developing wet laboratory methods for sequencing, as well as maintaining and improving Nextstrain software that is widely used for phylodynamic analysis.
- Described the usability and real-world performance of automation-friendly swabs for SARS-CoV-2 testing.1
Awarded in 2022, this project is still in progress.