Pooled Testing

Partner with academic institutions,researchers and private sector laboratories. Governments should engage the academy,research firms,and private sector laboratories to develop algorithms,testing strategies,and innovative ways to design pooled testing schemes.

Waive regulatory barriers. Governments should consider ways to adjust regulations that restrict innovation pertaining to pooled testing schemes.

Rapidly pilot pooled testing schemes. Governments should act quickly (<1 month) to pilot various pooled testing schemes such as Dorfman,Splitting,Sterret,and Matrix testing to gauge scalability and utility amongst different contexts and populations.

Iterate learning and share best practices. Governments should contract with or perform their own evaluation of pooled testing schemes,improve on existing processes,and share best practices across jurisdictions and sectors.