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 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.