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Building a Public-Private Partnership to Enhance Laboratory Preparedness and Response in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2020

Reynolds M. Salerno ,
Jasmine Chaitram  and
Joanne D. Andreadis
Reynolds M. Salerno*
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Systems, Atlanta, Georgia
Jasmine Chaitram
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Systems, Atlanta, Georgia
Joanne D. Andreadis
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Reynolds M. Salerno, PhD, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop V24-3, Atlanta, GA 30329-4018 (e-mail: yyw2@cdc.gov).
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Abstract

The public health community has recognized that it cannot handle responses to all possible public health emergencies on its own. The public health sector has deep scientific expertise and excels at initial identification, complex characterization, and test development. The private sector has many resources and capabilities that can complement and augment the public health response. This is especially true in the clinical laboratory sector. Many commercial laboratories are designed for high-volume, high-throughput diagnostic testing in a way that public health laboratories are not. Significant steps have been taken since 2017 to improve the communication and coordination between public health and the private clinical laboratory community, especially during a response to a public health emergency. This paper describes the strong foundation that has been built for an improved clinical and public health laboratory response to the next public health emergency.

Keywords

clinical laboratory medicineemergency preparednesspublic health practicepublic-private partnerships
Type
Concepts in Disaster Medicine
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 15 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 657 - 660
Copyright
© 2020 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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