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 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.