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.