BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM:
CDC public health experts are ready to deploy to respond when disasters strike. Our teams have a broad range of skills in applied epidemiology, health assessments, surveillance activities, water and sanitation, rapid response capacity building, and field investigations. The teams specialize in five main areas:
- Investigation: Epidemic investigations, public health surveillance, and disease prevention and control to monitor, track, and contain outbreaks at the source.
- Planning: Based on our operational research projects, we develop more effective public health interventions to prevent the spread of disease. We also offer program evaluation and emergency preparedness support.
- Training: We help strengthen technical skills across foreign governments; international and private volunteer organizations; and with students to build critical public health capabilities.
- Guidelines: We develop guidance internally and with partners on public health issues and technical areas, such as best practices in tracking outbreak-prone diseases in crowded settings.
- Partnerships: We build and maintain relationships with strategic multinational, international, and non governmental partners, working together to strengthen global health security and protect people worldwide.
NATURE OF ASSISTANCE:
Emergency response and recovery. Assistance requests coming from government agencies, international organizations, and non governmental organizations.
TIMING:
These activities are ongoing.
SPECIFIC COUNTRIES OF INTEREST OR OTHER RELEVANT CRITERIA FOR ASSISTANCE:
Worldwide
FREQUENCY: Programmatic activities are funded annually.
