A participatory research initiative generates actionable data on avian diseases in New York City, showcases how a community-based approach can tackle misinformation, and actively engages students from historically underrepresented communities in science, technology, engineering and maths.
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We thank P. Kehinde Ajayi of BioBus and all our collaborators, especially P. S. Meade, F. Krammer and R. A. Albrecht of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, R. McMahon of Wild Bird Fund, and S. Slavinsky of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. We thank the Flu Lab, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, P. Palese and anonymous Mount Sinai donors for generously funding the New York City Virus Hunters pilot. Collaborative community science activities for NYCVH will be further supported by a new five-year Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Award Number R25GM150146. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
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Marizzi, C., Wright, L. Hunting emerging viruses through participatory community science. Nat Microbiol 9, 578–581 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01604-1
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