To provide a stipend to attend the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) conference for competitively selected veterinary students, residents or veterinarians who have successfully completed CDC’s Epidemiology Elective Program within five years of their Award year and are interested in applying to the CDC EIS in the near future. The Pappaioanou Award encourages recipients to take the next steps on their journey to becoming leaders in the fields of public health, global health and One Health.

To honor the career of the late Dr. Jonathan M. Mann, this fund supports a lecture administered by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists during their annual conference.

To strengthen laboratory surveillance for pneumococcal meningitis and serotyping in India to understand the impact of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine rollout.

To use a public-private partnership model that includes significant collaboration among three major stakeholder communities (healthcare providers, healthcare IT vendors and public health) to promote crucial health data interoperability.

To conduct a pilot evaluation to identify successful actions taken to address bottlenecks in timeliness analysis and investigate barriers faced in implementing actions to inform future strategies in outbreak detection and response. This work will take place in Thailand, Uganda, Mozambique, Philippines, El Salvador and four countries in Central Asia.