A 2009 graduate of Monmouth-Roseville High School and Monmouth College grad, Hassan Masood, is currently working with the PATH organization in Washington, D.C., which focuses on infectious disease detection and surveillance. Recently the lab has turned their attention to learning more on the coronavirus pandemic says Masood:
“We currently have been authorized some coronavirus response funding, but that is tightly controlled funding at this point. The long term objective of the project that I work on is a laboratory system strengthening project. Long term goal is to strengthen the systems that manage the detection of their surveillance, their treatment; so the project is not a short term emergency response project like other projects are. The scope of work is a different one. It is a really interesting time because, obviously with the coronavirus, it has become imperative for projects like ours to repurpose funding to refocus their attention from their long term goals to help support short term needs,” Masood states.
