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 ACEGID 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.
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.
Sentinel Countries and Capacity Building
Sentinel Hub and Sites
The Sentinel framework has been implemented in Nigeria and Sierra Leone, as our work in Senegal, and Liberia continues. Currently Sentinel has hub’s established in Nigeria at Redeemers University, as well as in Sierra Leone at Kenema General Hospital.
Scientific Capacity Building
Sentinel has supported training in Next generation sequencing, qPCR and diagnostic sequencing, Metagenomic sequencing, and bioinformatic analysis in 53/54 countries in Africa. This effort not only supports sustainable scientific capacity for pathogen surveillance but also helps support a common language for infectious disease work throughout the continent.
