Acknowledgments

Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard collaborated on curriculum design and course development for the Pathogen Genomics for Public Health program as members of the U.S. Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence Network.

Funding

The Pathogen Genomics for Public Health program was supported by the Office of Advanced Molecular Detection, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through Cooperative Agreement Number CK22-2204. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Colleagues at The Broad Foundation of MIT and Harvard gratefully acknowledge funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Awards 11392 and 13007), as well as the Sentinel program. This work is made possible by support from Flu Lab and a cohort of donors through TED’s Audacious Project, including the ELMA Foundation, MacKenzie Scott, the Skoll Foundation, and Open Philanthropy.

Support for translation of captions in Foundations I and II into multiple languages was made possible by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) with funding from Silicon Valley Pathogen Genomics (Grant 2023-330992) and the CDC (agreement number NU2HGH000080).

Program Leadership

  • Pardis Sabeti, Co-Principal Investigator for Education Course Content, New England Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence (Professor, Harvard University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Core Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
  • David Golan, Co-Principal Investigator for Education Delivery, New England Pathogen Genomics Center of Excellence, and PGCoE Education Executive Committee Chair (Harvard Medical School, HMS Dean for Research Initiatives and Global Programs)
  • Elizabeth Osborn, Education Director for Pathogen Genomics Education (Harvard Medical School)
  • Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Curriculum Manager for Pathogen Genomics Education (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

Numerous individuals and organizations contributed to this program, including the following:

  • The Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence (PGCoE) Education Strategic Advisory Committee, including Justin Bahl, Alli Black, Christina Brandeburg, Jennifer Brown, Hope Dishman, Logan Fink, Alexandra Lorentz, Pavitra Roychoudhury, Ruth Sanon, Shruti Subramaniam, Anna Strain, and Shirlee Wohl.
  • The Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence (PGCoE) Education Executive Committee, chaired by David Golan, and including members Larry Madoff and Shirlee Wohl from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Elizabeth Curtis, Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Bronwyn MacInnis, and Pardis Sabeti from the Broad Institute; and Nadine Fornelos Martins, Alison Haight, Joanne Muller, and Elizabeth Osborn from Harvard Medical School.
  • The Product Development team at Harvard Medical School’s Office for External Education, led by Joanne Muller, with key contributions from Nicola Dion and the teams directed by Erika Hayden, Doug McLean, and Jessica Holland.