Thank you, Boston!
The TestBoston study was a COVID-19 at-home sample collection study conducted by Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Between September 2020 and December 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, over 10,000 participants enrolled in the study, completing over 47,000 PCR tests. This study is now complete.
Findings from this study were used to provide crucial, real-time insights about the prevalence of COVID-19 in the city of Boston to help support public health efforts. Our published work also highlighted risk factors for COVID-19 acquisition to help understand the populations most at risk, and lessons learned on conducting remote “at home” research, which could help make research participation more broadly accessible in the future.
We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our research participants. We could not have accomplished this study without the support of the greater Boston community.
To learn more, please see our published work and interactive results dashboard below. Please contact info@testboston.org with any questions.
—The TestBoston Study Team
Principal Investigators Ann E. Woolley, MD, MPH, Lisa A. Cosimi, MD, and Deborah T. Hung, MD, PhD
Published Work
Woolley AE, Dryden-Peterson S, Kim A, Naz-McLean S, Kelly C, Laibinis HH, Bagnall J, Livny J, Ma P, Orzechowski M, Gomez J, Shoresh N, Gabriel S, Hung DT, Cosimi LA. At-home Testing and Risk Factors for Acquisition of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Major US Metropolitan Area. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 5;9(11):ofac505. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac505. PMID: 36381614; PMCID: PMC9619609. (Full text available here)
Naz-McLean S, Kim A, Zimmer A, Laibinis H, Lapan J, Tyman P, Hung J, Kelly C, Nagireddy H, Narayanan-Pandit S, McCarthy M, Ratnaparkhi S, Rutherford H, Patel R, Dryden-Peterson S, Hung DT, Woolley AE, Cosimi LA. Feasibility and lessons learned on remote trial implementation from TestBoston, a fully remote, longitudinal, large-scale COVID-19 surveillance study. PLoS One. 2022 Jun 3;17(6):e0269127. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269127. PMID: 35657813; PMCID: PMC9165767. (Full text available here)
Results Dashboard
The interactive TestBoston Dashboard displays test results and study data across different time periods and demographics.
Our Team
We are a team of infectious disease doctors and researchers who want to better understand how COVID-19 is affecting individuals and communities so we can better serve all patients.
Principal Investigators
Lisa A. Cosimi, MD
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School
Ann E. Woolley, MD, MPH
Associate Physician, Infectious Diseases
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Instructor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Deborah T. Hung, MD, PhD
Professor
Harvard Medical School
Core faculty member
Co-director, Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program
Broad Institute
Administrative Team, Broad Institute
Andrea Saltzman, Director, Office of Research Subject Protection
Marissa Jenko, MS, Administrative Lead
Paul Tyman, Administrative Assistant
Sarah Winnicki, Project Manager II
Sharon Wong, PhD, Associate Director - Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program
Engineering Team, Broad Institute
Andrew Zimmer, Director, Data Donation Platform
Anna Hupalowska, Illustration & Data Visualization Designer
Erin Gwozdz, UX/UI Designer
Jen Lapan, Principal Software Product Manager
Kiara Westbrooks, Software Engineer
Marco Ocana, Principal Software Engineer
Pavel Sidorenko, Software Engineer
Pegah Taheri, Software Engineer
Sampath Settipalli, Senior Software Engineer
Scott Sassone, Manager, Video Production
Simone Maiwald, Software Engineering Manager
Yufeng Wang, Senior Software Engineer
Andrew Tang, Senior Interaction Designer, Pattern
Surya Narayanan-Pandit, Surveillance Associate
Clinical Team, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Andy Kim, BS, Research Coordinator
Christina Kelly, Research Assistant
Hannah Laibinis, Intern
Henry Manigat, Translator
Henry Rutherford, BA, Research Coordinator
Himaja Nagireddy, HSPH MS Candidate, Intern
Sarah Naz-McLean, MSc, Program Manager
Tina Wang, Translator
Yilu Ma, Translator
Saee Ratnaparkhi, MPH, Research Assistant
Margaret McCarthy, MSc, Research Assistant
Jessica Hung, Intern
Maura Benson, BS, Research Assistant
James Kerr, Research Assistant
MOC Team, Broad Institute
Kara Rzasa
Thomas Cleland
Ross Ackerman
Tony Gaca
Johnathan Livny
Peijun Ma
Giana Frongillo
Additional Partners
Clinical Research Sequencing Platform (CRSP), Broad Institute
GBF
Joel Ceide, Translator
Language Scientific
Mascon Medical
Microbial Omics Core (MOC), Broad Institute
Nadya Lopez Zalba, Translator
UPS