USAID builds on the successes of the Agency's broad-base and multi-sector programs in disease surveillance, training, and outbreak response, with a goal to pre-empt or combat, at their source, newly emerging diseases of animal origin that could threaten human health. USAID is building on its strong human health antimicrobial resistance (AMR) work to minimize the likelihood of AMR development and spread within the animal health sector. USAID's work focuses in strengthening capacity in countries to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases in animals and humans; improving laboratory capacity to support surveillance; strengthening workforce capacity; and supporting enabling environments for multi-sectoral collaboration. USAID has established partnerships across the U.S. Government (USG), relevant UN agencies, humanitarian agencies, and development partners to strengthen coordination efforts for potential disease outbreaks that could require an international emergency response.
Bureau for Global Health (GH)
Support to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAQ) to better define rapidly evolving livestock production systems; identify and better characterize known and unknown viruses in livestock; identify livestock reservoirs and amplification hosts for viruses that can infect people; and targets interventions at human behaviors which amplify disease spread. The Infectious Disease Detection and Surveillance (IDDS) project is working to improve the detection of diseases of public health importance and identification of AMR in priority infectious diseases through an accessible, accurate, adaptable, timely and integrated diagnostic network system; improve the quality of real time surveillance systems for pathogens of greatest public health concern.
Office for U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
READY project is a global consortium that aims to strengthen capacity for emergency response to major infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. READY strives to improve the humanitarian community's capacity to respond to infectious disease threats that become international humanitarian emergencies. Operational consortium members work to train and retain standing capacity to more quickly and effectively respond to these events.
