Our Center is involved in many projects to help fulfill our mission of bringing about accurate, acceptable, and easily implemented point-of-care tests in both resource-rich and resource-limited settings.
Project Lead: Susan Tuddenham, MD, MPH and Anne Rompalo, MD
Dr. Rompalo, with participation from many other Center personnel, developed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled Point-of-Care Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections. This course looks at point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections from the perspective of the clinician, the patient, and the regulatory environment.
Project Lead: Richard Rothman, MD, PhD
The JHU Emergency Department will develop expedited clinical pathways for female and male patients who present with signs and symptoms which might indicate an STD, via a series of expert consensus meetings. Under each clinical pathway, a set of standard of care laboratory-based STI testing panels will be recommended. Potential point-of-care STI assays that could rapidly diagnose infections or replace laboratory-based testing will be proposed
There has been a move towards same-day, same-visit result and treatment, especially in high-burden populations. In collaboration with Jhpiego, the Center is aiding in a project to validate research-use only point-of-care diagnostic tests for STIs against approved gold-standard tests in Kenya.
