Steven Karp

About Steven Karp

The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (CGPS)The World Health Organization has declared that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest dangers to global health. To tackle AMR, we provide universal surveillance strategies at scale, facilitating rapid analysis, and enabling the training of public health practitioners worldwide.CGPS is committed to making our expertise in genomic pathogen surveillance, data interpretation and linkage and intuitive web-based tools accessible globally. Digital Epidemiology Services (DES)To sustainably scale implementation, training and support of our tools and capabilities globally, CGPS has established a non-profit operating arm, Digital Epidemiology Services, with locations in both the UK and US.

Experience

1. Development Operations

   The Centre For Genomic Pathogen Surveillance

   Mar 2022 — Present · Oxford, GB

   The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance (CGPS) bridges the capacity gap between pathogen genomics and public health utility in two ways:(1) a scalable training and implementation model to deliver genomic pathogen surveillance capacity globally, and (2) intuitive software tools that collect, integrate, contextualize, analyze and visualize genomic pathogen data with metadata to yield actionable insights for public health stakeholders at multiple levels:Local: infection control and public health National: pathogen dynamics and transmissionGlobal: identify outbreaks and clinically relevant mutationsCGPS offers a path toward genomic pathogen surveillance at scale. The path to a global interconnected surveillance network starts at the local level. CGPS has developed rich know-how from on-the-ground implementation work with partners in the Philippines, Colombia, Nigeria and India, international public health agencies and COG UK CGPS\' easy to use web-based analysis and visualization tools and trainings bridge the gap to interpretation and public health value locally, and contribute to an interconnected data framework for national, regional and global surveillance and risk awareness. Insights gleaned from this data inform immediate public health interventions and have implications for- vaccination deployment strategies- evaluation of vaccination programs\' effect on pathogen evolution- R&D funding priorities- development of point of care ASTs, antimicrobials and vaccines- clinical trial enrollment strategies- locally defined risk alert systems, customized to geography and pathogen

Education

• Harvard University

  Social Sciences