Innovation Exchange: "SalivaDirect: From Lab to Community"

Dr. Anne Wyllie is the Co-Founder of SalivaDirect and a Research Scientist in Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.

What began with the development of an open-source, low-cost COVID-19 diagnostic assay at Yale School of Public Health has grown into a Global Diagnostic Network and a spinout into a new, independent nonprofit: SalivaDirect, Inc.

SalivaDirect Inc, the nonprofit, is continuing to propel the use of saliva as a superior sample type for accessible, equitable surveillance of respiratory pathogens. To date, more than 200 CLIA laboratories have provided over 7M SalivaDirect tests nationwide.SalivaDirect also has been independently validated internationally in 15+ countries.