NEW YORK – 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 reducing global health spending.

It was announced Tuesday that Sentinel — a 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 — won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition .

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Sentinel reports training more than 3,000 public health workers from 53 of Africa’s 54 countries. The award money will help expand its geographic reach over the next five years, creating a more robust system that can better alert local communities — and, i

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