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.

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

To strengthen the cause of death determination platforms by integrating AI-assisted analysis to enhance the accuracy, speed and utility of mortality data, thereby improving early outbreak detection and public health response capabilities.

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.