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.

To assess social, behavioral and environmental drivers of cholera transmission in fishing communities and make recommendations to improve cholera prevention and response efforts in these communities.

To recognize health care volunteers who have incurred serious injury or lost their lives as a direct consequence of their participation in polio eradication activities. The families of the workers, who have been the victims of automobile crashes, military conflicts and other life-threatening events, receive a certificate recognizing the victim's heroic commitment to polio eradication and a cash tribute.

To conduct field epidemiology training program (FETP) in Haiti and implement 1 frontline and 1 intermediate cohort for the FETP program training and pilot/implement the One Health Frontline curriculum for the joint training of professionals across the animal, environmental, and human health sectors.

To provide humanitarian assistance to locally employed CDC staff in times of crisis.

To assist 25 low- and middle-income countries across Latin America, Asia and Africa in strengthening their public health data systems and data use for critical policy-making decisions.

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

To develop a framework for countries and national tuberculosis (TB) control programs to prioritize the collection, analysis, and use of supplementary TB data. Such TB data can then be used to develop better National Strategic Plans for TB towards ending TB.

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 support the development and implementation of technical activities in the areas of healthcare infection prevention and control (IPC), healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in India.

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).