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Project Spotlight and Update: Applied Research to Address the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Emerging Public Health Emergency

The study aims, among participants reporting COVID-like illnesses, to calculate the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections and report the incidence among the general population, health care workers, minorities, and other specific groups.
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Project Update and Spotlight: NAMRU 6-RASS

NAMRU-6 provides sustainable infectious diseases research support to the host nation Ministry of Health, other government agencies, universities and military through field studies, infectious diseases surveillance and epidemiologic studies, vaccine and drug clinical trials, test/evaluation of technologies and training...
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Project Spotlight and Update: Southeast Asia Bio-Surveillance and Epidemiology Research II (SABER II)

SABER II team continues providing support to NAMRU-2 in the conduct of biomedical, epidemiological, and clinical research efforts including rolling out research projects, onboarding new staff, and partners, negotiating new subcontracts, modifying the existing subcontracts, setting up and managing project activities.
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Capacity Building for Ebola Response in DRC (Cooperative Agreement)

Vysnova is a Prime awardee for the Cooperative Agreement funded by CDC. Under this Cooperative Agreement, Vysnova works with CDC’s Viral Special Pathogens Branch (VSPB), which is responsible for the research, prevention, control, and management of a wide range of infectious diseases caused by deadly viruses such as Ebola, Lassa, Nipah, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, and hantaviruses.
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Vysnova Attends US-Kenya SME Trade Initiative

Vysnova Partners, Inc. (Vysnova) was delighted to join the President of Kenya, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, and several members of his cabinet, at the official signing of a private sector agreement that seeks to expand trade and investments between Kenya and the United States of America.
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Success Story: Survey of Immune Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infections (SIM-COVID)

Vysnova Partners provides program management support for activities to develop and perform a cross-sectional serology protocol designed to assess the burden and distribution of SARS-CoV-2 infections among US Department of Defense (DoD) forces by measuring antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
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Survey of Adherence with COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors During the 2020 Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays Among Members of the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership

Vysnova is proud to be a co-collaborator of a publication in the Journal of Community Health, a peer-reviewed publication that offers original articles on the practice, teaching, and research of community health. Survey of Adherence with COVID‐19 Prevention Behaviors During the 2020 Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays Among Members of the COVID‐19 Community Research Partnership
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Project Spotlight: Ectoparasite Surveillance in Mongolia 

NAMRU-2’s mission is to monitor and characterize emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of military and public health importance and to develop mitigation strategies against these threats in partnership with host nation, international and U.S. agencies in Southeast Asia.
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Success Story: Strengthening Laboratory Capacity in DRC

Between March 15 and April 3, 2021, Dr. Christopher Mores, Sarah Tritsch, and Abbey Porzucek of George Washington University (GWU), Vysnova’s sub awardee, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to build relationships with then the Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (INRB), DRC Ministry of Health (MoH), Provincial Division of Health (DPS), and the laboratory team in Ingende.
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Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) Wound Infections Department Success Stories

The team at NMRC (Naval Medical Research Center) has worked on creating a series of experiments, both in vitro and in vivo, that can be used to test new products from collaborators.