To increase public awareness of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues and improve conditions in communities experiencing limited access or unsafe water systems in the United States.
To continue to increase health security in countries by improving their capacity and expanding support using new and more relevant tools of the National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) Toolkit in at least six countries.
To evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of macaque-sized CLIP 3D printed intravaginal rings (IVRs) loaded with the potent antiretroviral Islatravir (EFdA) when administered vaginally to pigtailed macaques.
To support implementation of a set of recommendations and a roadmap developed in the "Strengthening Public Health and Community Based Organization (CBO)" Interface report.
To improve use of antibiotics in outpatient settings, where most prescribing occurs, by providing antibiotic stewardship resources for state health departments and state Medicaid agencies.
To conduct an evaluation before and two years after the introduction of the Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) to study the direct and indirect impact of PCV introduction on vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage among healthy Indonesian children under five years of age.
To assist the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in establishing a Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) in Qatar focused on building its public health workforce capacity.
To support key laboratory systems strengthening interventions for early disease detection, disease monitoring, and laboratory based disease surveillance for priority diseases of public health importance in Lagos, Nigeria.
To support CDC with diagnostic development and processing for the global Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP). This project will provide CDC with the laboratory support needed to diagnose possible Guinea worm (GW) specimens submitted by endemic and non-endemic countries and to validate and/or develop novel Guinea worm diagnostic tests.
To provide project management services to include management of design and performance by CDC of an animal research study involving application of microarray patches (MAPs) containing antiretrovirals for HIV treatment to rhesus macaques.
To honor and recognize important work to promote safe injection practices and patient safety and produce educational materials that raise awareness and highlight the work of the One & Only Campaign.
To enable veterinary students from across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean to learn more about opportunities in public health for veterinary professionals.
To evaluate the impact of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule change in Mozambique on vaccine-type pneumococcal carriage and invasive pneumococcal disease; and serotype 1 colonization among patients with suspected pneumonia and serotype 1 disease among children and adults.
To support key initiatives addressing typhoid and cholera including the evaluation manuscript of the pilots of the Burden and Risk Assessment in Typhoid (BRAT) framework, the implementation of the BRAT tool in real-world settings and the development of a manuscript on vaccination strategies in conflict settings.
To provide laboratory support for the analysis of immunogenicity and shedding of new oral Poliovirus vaccines in human clinical trials and related issues for polio endgame.
To assess the impact of the Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine catch up campaign among internally displaced populations in the northern Sahel region of Burkina Faso. This effort will implement and evaluate the impact of changing the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule.