North Carolina Policy Collaboratory

The CORVASEQ (Coronavirus Variant Sequencing) Surveillance Network is a partnership between the NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Public Health and the NC Policy Collaboratory.

In its latest budget, the North Carolina Senate makes permanent the NC Policy Collaboratory.

Could North Carolina’s Collaboratory be a national model for incorporating scientific research into policymaking?

Researchers at University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences began more than a year ago tracking in wastewater the virus that causes COVID-19, just as the pandemic was beginning to sweep across the globe.