Advanced Molecular Detection: National investment to advance genomic sequencing capacity: West Virginia: September 5, 2023

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Total state and local investment: $4,879,023 ; West Virginia is part of the Mid-Atlantic region. In 2018, the AMD program established seven workforce development regions across the country. Each region has an AMD training lead and a bioinformatics lead. This provides a network of customized AMD support which helps develop skills and provides training assistance to public health labs across the country. ; Through the Mid-Atlantic region’s training resources, West Virginia receives lab support on data analysis and how to interface with IT departments. They also receive both pathogen-specific training and cross-cutting instruction to help staff develop the critical skills necessary to extract, analyze, and interpret sequencing data. ; CDC’s Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) program builds and integrates laboratory, bioinformatics, and epidemiology technologies across CDC and nationwide. Since 2014, AMD has received support from Congress through a $30 million per year appropriation to implement these technologies in public health programs. Through investments in AMD technologies, CDC is improving both public health outcomes and preparedness in dozens of areas including foodborne disease, influenza, antibiotic resistance, hepatitis, pneumonia, and meningitis. ; With funding from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the AMD program has developed a multi-year plan to expand its support to state, local, and territorial public health laboratories with more staff and resources to collect specimens for COVID-19 testing, sequence them to identify and track SARS-CoV-2 variants, and share data, now and future years. ; WV-amd-investment-H.pdf
• Subjects:
  • Communicable Diseases/diagnosis
  • Disease Outbreaks/diagnosis
  • Financing, Government
  • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
  • Public Health Surveillance/methods
• Series:
  Advanced Molecular Detection National Investment
• Document Type:
  Text
• Corporate as Subject:
  Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative ; Advanced Molecular Detection Initiative
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  West Virginia
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/135921/cdc_135921_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 596.27 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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