Large scale, community centric diagnostics to test all of our food, water, environment & air. Starting with TB.
Baltimore, MD
Joined January 2020
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drizzle health retweeted
Not to toot our own horn, but this is exactly why @DrizzleHealth has built sensing on large physical volume samples! Our washwater testing system offers almost a million times more coverage than current testing!
Also, testing for pathogens in lettuce is extremely hard (& imo) random. You essentially grab a handful of sample from a room full of lettuce, say that it represents the entire thing and test that. In this case, that'd be catching lightning twice!
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drizzle health retweeted
Metagenomics + Frontier AI = Protection against new threats? Not quite, imo.
Wrote a response to @Simon__Grimm 's fantastic @IFP essay on scaling pathogen detection. The architecture is right. The input layer is missing/non-trivial. (1/7)
drizzle health retweeted
CDC's wastewater surveillance detects pathogens 2 weeks after spillovers. Yet everyone in biosecurity is building faster, cheaper, more sensitive tests. They're solving the wrong problem.
The bottleneck isn't detection. It's sampling & concentration (& incentive alignment). (1/n)
Studies have even shown under-diagnosis of TB amongst women. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1513…
Sporadic evidence also suggests sample collection and quality of sample as major impediments.
Sample enrichment for a variety of demographic is an area of focus for us.
#InternationalWomensDay
TB is often thought of as a ‘male disease’. More men are affected by TB. But the impact on women is significant
🤰🏽higher health risks during pregnancy
🙇🏽♀️disproportionate TB-related #stigma
😞the burden of #caregiving
Let’s talk about why👇
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2023
drizzle health retweeted
For #InternationalWomensDay and beyond, let's all fully #EmbraceEquity.
#IWD2023
@MoHFW_INDIA @supriya_sule @KanimozhiDMK @deepticomesback @sundaekrish @keyuriab @TBHDJ @StopTB @tb_ppm @TBFreeWorld @TbDivision @consulting_pi
