To strengthen vaccine-preventable disease surveillance platforms to maximize their capacity to measure burden of disease and to monitor the impact of vaccines. Activities include improving immunization data quality; evaluating impact and implementation of vaccines (including oral cholera, rubella, and HPV); improving the quality and planning of measles and rubella campaigns; and strengthening surveillance for vaccine preventable diseases (meningitis, diphtheria and pertussis, intussusception).

To develop data that will contribute to an assessment of whether transgenic mosquitoes could be effectively and safely deployed to control natural populations of malaria vectors.