{"id":45682,"date":"2022-07-27T04:15:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.asianetpakistan.com\/?p=95565"},"modified":"2022-07-27T04:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T04:15:04","slug":"the-rockefeller-foundations-pandemic-prevention-institute-and-the-pasteur-network-partner-to-strengthen-global-disease-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricahorizon.com\/the-rockefeller-foundations-pandemic-prevention-institute-and-the-pasteur-network-partner-to-strengthen-global-disease-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s Pandemic Prevention Institute and the Pasteur Network Partner\u00a0to Strengthen Global Disease Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON and PARIS, July 26, 2022 \/PRNewswire\/ — The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute (PPI) and the Pasteur Network have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance early detection and reporting for emerging and reemerging diseases and build a robust decentralized global surveillance network that strengthens local capacity for sharing high-quality data across countries. The collaboration aims to enhance the effectiveness of the Pandemic Prevention Institute and the Pasteur Network’s 33 member institutions in both addressing infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and monkeypox, and informing interventions against them.<\/p>\n

“Our work with the Pasteur Network will undoubtedly make a transformational impact on global health security, leveraging the ability to advance equitable data-sharing practices that will provide key stakeholders and decision-makers with timely, more accurate and relevant information to make critical health and policy decisions,” said Dr. Rick Bright, CEO of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute<\/b>.\u00a0“Our collective aim is to advance access to pathogen surveillance, genomic sequencing, analytics, and data sharing tools in low- and middle-income countries and to foster sentinel laboratory networks for early disease detection.”<\/p>\n

“This MoU is a major milestone in our collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation\u00a0and the PPI that could lead to significant impact in epidemic and pandemic preparedness. Together, the Pasteur Network and PPI are an effective combination of complementary talents and capacity to address global health threats said Dr. Amadou Sall, President of the Pasteur Network<\/b>.<\/p>\n

“We are proud to support this initiative. This important, historic partnership will provide much-needed support to capacity building and epidemic intelligence,” said Professor Stewart Cole<\/b>, President of the Pasteur Network foundation<\/b> that contributes to the Pasteur Network’s development.<\/p>\n

Over the coming years, the partnership will focus primarily on the following areas:<\/p>\n