macarthur foundation pandemic prevention.

The MacArthur Foundation is awarding $100 million to a private pandemic prevention network across Africa, offering critical support to infectious disease surveillance at a time when governments are deprioritizing global health spending. Sentinel is a Broad Institute project that creates cost-effective pathogen detection tests, monitors outbreaks with real-time tracking tools and trains local scientists to carry out community-led responses. It has won the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition. The award money will help expand its geographic reach over the next five years. The goal is to build a more robust system that can better alert local communities, and the world, to previously undetected diseases.