To support data collection for meningitis, vaccination rollout and bacterial meningitis laboratory capacity building within the Meningitis Belt of sub-Sahara Africa.

To support the formative evaluation in the implementation of the early disease detection and response 7-1-7 Framework in several countries and for identified diseases.

To evaluate program in Tanzania to scale high-impact maternal and newborn interventions.

To support laboratory systems in Cameroon.

To support the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) in Tanzania.

To provide a stipend for competitively selected medical or veterinary students, residents, physicians or veterinarians who successfully complete CDC’s Epidemiology Elective Program (EEP) within five years of the Award year and are interested in applying to the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) in the near future.

To enhance GPSSample for use in immunization coverage surveys to reduce the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in emergency and fragile settings.

To help CDC teams to purchase and distribute insecticide-treated bed nets to protect children and families from malaria.

To honor Dr. Thacker's life and service to public health as well as his passion for the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). Established by the Thacker Family through the CDC Foundation, the fund supports the Stephen B. Thacker Excellence in Mentoring Award, given annually at the EIS conference; CDC's Disease Detective Camps for youth and special projects of the Stephen B. Thacker Library at CDC.

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.

To reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases in low- and middle-income countries by providing technical expertise, facilitating technical packages, building Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) workforce capacity; establishing a consortium of experts; and collaborating with governmental agencies and partners.

To provide non-communicable disease support to Ukraine.

To support cascade trainings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to aid in integrating Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) into data collection efforts in order to expand the use of RDTs in countries at risk of cholera.

To strengthen multisectoral epidemiologic, disease monitoring and response capacity in the Philippines, determine the benefits and potential need for starting additional tiers and support program sustainability efforts for the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP).

To support all three tiers (Frontline, Intermediate, Advanced) of Central Asia’s Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP).

To support national public health institutes (NPHIs) and positioning HIV within a broader health security context, this work will engage select NPHIs in strengthening shared governance with HIV institutions for sustaining the HIV response.

To provide a source of flexible funding to CDC teams working in the field to meet critical or emergency needs that could not easily be met through usual government channels. Since it was created in 1999 by a group of CDC employees and retirees, the fund has provided resources for essential services and equipment such as bullet-proof vests for health workers vaccinating children in war-torn Somalia, ready-to-eat meals for workers in Sudan, satellite phones, incentives for vaccination campaigns in Mexico and India and training in other countries.

To support capacity building of country offices and partner organizations on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) preparedness and response activities for ongoing cholera outbreaks.

When a terrorist bomb exploded at the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya on August 7, 1998, Mary Louise Martin was among the 12 Americans and more than 200 Kenyans killed. In her memory, friends and colleagues established the Louise Martin, DVM, MS, EIS '85 Memorial Scholarship Endowment to provide scholarships for disadvantaged young women in Kenya to attend a national school.

To support utilization of enhanced informatics tools to improve disease monitoring systems in Kenya, including expanding digital infrastructure and monitoring data repository capacity at the Kenya National Public Health Institute.

To provide financial support to assist citizens of low and middle-income countries in receiving applied public health or related fields training, such as courses sponsored by CDC or Emory University.

To establish a regional surveillance network—MenAfriNet—to collect and analyze high quality case-based meningitis surveillance data from representative sites across the African meningitis belt. The meningitis surveillance network will evaluate the impact of MenAfriVac to guide research on new vaccines and strategies to optimize impact of existing vaccines.

To develop, implement and evaluate tobacco control policies and interventions that can reduce tobacco use at the national and global levels, the CDC Foundation supports CDC and other global partners to implement components of the GTSS to monitor adult tobacco use and key tobacco control measures in high-burden tobacco use countries. Additionally, the CDC Foundation supports CDC in strengthening country-level research and capacity to inform programs and policies in high-burden tobacco use countries.

To determine the impact of Tuberculosis preventative treatment among populations living with HIV.

To partner with the Global Virus Network and engage with CDC regional offices to scope virology expertise and lab capability in an emergency.

To conduct an assessment to better understand the regional, national and facility level capacities and barriers to detect, respond to and contain carbapenem-resistant organisms (CROs) in resource-limited settings and to put forward solutions to address barriers in order to advance preparedness and response to CP-CROs.

To strengthen the detection and data collection of priority diseases and analysis and utilization data for decision making and linkage to other key disease monitoring and response systems in Zambia.

To support the assessment on the effectiveness and tangible contributions of Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs), particularly in data collection and outbreak response.

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.

To provide an ongoing source of support for CDC's safe water initiatives, Dr. Eugene Gangarosa and his wife, Rose, established the Gangarosa Endowment for Safe Water in May 2000, reflecting a lifelong commitment to provide safe water around the world.