Partnership and collaboration are central to our mission. We work with national, regional and international institutions, funders, and collaborators from across One Health sectors to better detect, understand and respond to disease threats in the Caribbean.
implementing partners
The EDGe Centre was established and is operating under the TT ONE LAB+ project, a country-led, multi-sectoral initiative of the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, aimed at strengthening national capacity for One Health disease surveillance and the early detection of pathogens with epidemic or pandemic potential. Funded by the Pandemic Fund, the project focuses on strengthening diagnostic and laboratory testing capabilities and building related human resource capacity. The Ministry of Health serves as the lead Beneficiary Entity, working alongside their co-Beneficiary Entities, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) serves as the project’s Implementing Entity.
academic and research collaborators
The Centre builds on local, regional and international research partnerships cultivated by UWI St. Augustine over more than two decades. Our current external collaborators are at institutions in Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health; Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries); Jamaica (The UWI Mona Campus; The University Hospital of the West Indies); Belgium (Institute of Tropical Medicine); Ghana (West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana; Yemaachi Biotech); the United Kingdom (Francis Crick Institute; Imperial College London; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; University College London; University of Edinburgh; University of Liverpool; University of Oxford); and the United States (Kansas State University; United States Department of Agriculture; University of Texas Medical Branch).
networks and consortia
The UWI St Augustine is a WWW Consortium partner, studying SARS-CoV-2 immunity across African, Caribbean, and UK populations, with the EDGe Centre Director as a co-Principal Investigator and EDGe Centre team members as co-investigators.
The UWI St Augustine is a PAHO/WHO Regional Sequencing Laboratory in RESVIGEN, part of the PAHOGen family of networks, with this role carried out through the EDGe Centre.
The UWI St Augustine is a GVN Affiliated Centre of Excellence, represented by the EDGe Centre Director.
The UWI St Augustine is an IPSN member, represented by the EDGe Centre Director.