A consensus statement on dual purpose pathogen surveillance systems: The always on approach

PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Nov 14;4(11):e0003762. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003762. eCollection 2024.
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HvdW was funded by a Fellowship in Global Health through the Rhodes Trust to co-lead the development of this consensus statement and received funding through a consulting fee from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to complete the preparation of this manuscript. S Soundararajan and HL are employed by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, one of the knowledge partners for the Rhodes Policy Summit on Pandemic Preparedness where this consensus statement was developed. IH, RM and VC were previously employed by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, one of the knowledge partners for the Rhodes Policy Summit on Pandemic Preparedness. TB, KG, CB, IH, RM and TM are employed by the Ellison Institute of Technology. TB had previous roles as a paid advisor for Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. SC is employed by FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics. JD receives funding from the Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. JS is employed by Wellcome Sanger Institute and through this, was awarded the UK Health Security Agency COVID-19 community sample sequencing contract. DA, JB, MA and GS are employed by the Ellison Institute of Technology, one of the knowledge partners for the Rhodes Policy Summit on Pandemic Preparedness where this consensus statement was developed. RN, through the EY-Oxford Health Analytics consortium, has received funding from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UKHSA, reference number C80260/PRO5331. S Scarpino has received grants from The Jackson Laboratory, Grand Challenges, Microsoft Research, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, Wellcome Trust, US Center for Disease Control (cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-FT-23-0069 from the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics), and National Science Foundation (WNTPS995QBM7). S Scarpino receives royalties from Oxford University Press. S Scarpino also receives consultancy fees from Verily Inc, and honoraria from the Lucy Institute for Data and Society Notre Dame. S Scarpino is an Expert Advisory Council member at Data.org and Science Policy Advisory Board member at Verena Consortium Washington. KS and JD received support travel from the Rhodes Trust. DB has been granted paid consultancy contracts with The Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa (SIMBA) of the G7-led Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction (GPWMD), and The Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy (GCPPP). VM is a member of the American Society for Microbiology’s Global Public Health Programs Committee. DC has received grants from NIHR 2020-2025 and Ellison Institute of Technology in his role at University of Oxford. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.