Oct 9, 2025
The Pathogen Data Network (PDN) enters its second year of enabling a worldwide ecosystem of linked data and tools that support infectious disease research and public health responses. This next phase focuses on leveraging expertise and resources from the SIB Swiss...
May 19, 2025
A major step toward responsible and equitable data use: a new interactive tool is now available as part of the Pathogen Data Network (PDN) to help stakeholders navigate the ethical, legal, and equity considerations in wastewater surveillance (WWS). A tool for ethical,...
May 16, 2025
A major step toward harmonizing global pathogen surveillance: the PDN Priority Pathogens repository – a curated, open-access and updatable list of high-priority pathogens – is now available to the global research and public health community. Tackling fragmentation in...
May 8, 2025
On 29 April, PDN hosted its first public webinar for a wide audience of pathogen data practitioners. It offered a global perspective on the project’s aims and latest advances, including a demo of the central Pathogen Portal, and the perspective from one of the...
Apr 10, 2025
In a significant step toward strengthening global infectious disease surveillance and response, the Pathogen Data Network (PDN) is proud to announce the awardees of the first call for Pathogens Portal Nodes (PPNs). The PPNs are envisioned as distributed, community-led...
Mar 26, 2025
Supporting timely responses to infectious disease outbreaks The Data Hubs Portal makes it easier than ever for multi-site project partners to share and access prepublication pathogen genetic sequences, in the secure environment of European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)...
